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Understanding startup failure. Ryan Graves 9/10/09 Founder of SocialDreamium  LLC @ryangraves
 
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Us vs. Them 11/08 04/09 http://thedreaminaction.com/2009/04/09/seesmic-desktop-takes-over-twitter-clients/ http://mashable.com/2009/04/08/tweetdeck-memory-leak/
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