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	<title>Runway Project</title>
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	<description>Helping people who are ready to leave employment behind.</description>
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		<title>Selling Yourself: How to build confidence as an expert</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s been said that public speaking is the biggest fear in America, just edging out death for the number one spot. Elliot Ronen would like to change that, he&#8217;s a techie by day and grad student by night who&#8217;s passion for public speaking inspired him to recently launch his Meltfaces.com blog. Face melting is all about knocking an audience dead with the right combination of confidence, speaking skills, and well crafted presentations.
Learn how to sell yourself and melt faces as @ElliotRonen discusses&#8230;
Selling yourself (without getting arrested): How to hone your ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=168</link>
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		<title>Freelancer&#8217;s Toolbox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tonight&#8217;s presentation, the Freelancer&#8217;s Toolbox, was meant to give new (and experienced) freelancers a peek into the tools of the trade that other freelancers use.  I polled a bunch of my freelancing friends to find out what they used, and while I expected (and got) a bunch of fancy new tools, I found two things:


There is no &#8220;standard&#8221; for doing anything in the freelance world
More people use low-tech methods for their businesses than I&#8217;d expected!


In corporations, &#8220;they&#8221; in their infinite wisdom, tell you what tools to use in your daily ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=145</link>
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		<title>Are you a media/tech startup? Spark Capital could be your funding angel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Spark Capital is aggressively seeking to make seed investments in promising early stage companies in the New York and Boston areas. Through this program, entrepreneurs who are starting companies in the conflux of media, technology, and entertainment can be granted up to $250,000 to quickly accelerate their progress.
See Spark Capital website for more information or to apply. 
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		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=121</link>
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		<title>Freelancers Union Offers Finance For Business of One Seminar</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join Freelancers U and Regina Lian, certified QuickBrooks ProAdvisor and small-business guru, for a non-threatening night of numbers. Learn what every freelancer needs to know to manage his/her business and personal transactions.

Topics will include:

Creating and implementing a 1-2-3 filing system
Tracking your income and expenses
Meeting IRS requirements
Selecting financial management software
When to review your finances
How to read your numbers and what to look for to improve your finances

Freelancer&#8217;s Union Members $30, Non-members $40
To register, go to:
http://www.freelancersunion.org/events/2009/spring/finance-business-one.html
And a plus!
A light dinner will be served from 6:00 to 6:30 p.m. Seminar will begin at ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=100</link>
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		<title>NYC Offers Business Express: Online Resources For Starting a NY Biz</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The City of New York has started Business Express, to assist New Yorkers wanting to start businesses with obtaining general license, permit, tax, incentive, and other useful information online.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=84</link>
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		<title>Charlie: &#8220;In this economy, we&#8217;re all entrepreneurs&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Charlie O&#8217;Donnell, a well-known entrepreneur and community organizer in NYC, wrote a great post about the entrepreneurial mentality can help in a recession:
You have a product&#8211;yourself&#8211;that you are solely responsible for. You have to discover, target, and pitch your prospects to survive.  It&#8217;s like a new market where there aren&#8217;t any established sales channels and you&#8217;ve got to convince your first customer that spending money with you will bear both immediate and future benefit.
This is something few have ever been taught how to do&#8211;how to get someone to fight for ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=57</link>
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		<title>New Independents: Watch This Video for Inspiration</title>
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		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=31</link>
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		<title>Theses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1. The advent of the Internet is a disruptive force that has only begun to change the way we work and live.
2. Many of the jobs that have been lost in the recession are not coming back.

3. A recession, while unfortunate in the short term, gives us a chance to rethink the way we do things.
4. So long as you are alive and healthy, you are capable of achieving a lot through ingenuity and hard work.
5. Regardless of the state of the economy, if you find a way to create ...]]></description>
		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=25</link>
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		<title>Wheels Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[<div style="font-size:14px;">
Your severance package, if you got one, buys you time to figure out what to do next.

Maybe you want to go back to employed life, but maybe this time you don’t. 

<font style="color:#ea6f33; font-weight:bold;">Maybe this is your chance to strike out on your own.</font>

Your severance package has cut you free. Now you have some runway. By the end of the runway, you need to be flying.

<strong>We’re here to help.</strong>
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		<link>http://www.runwayproject.org/?p=3</link>
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