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	<title>Susan Wu - Venture Capital </title>
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	<description>condensing fact from the vapor of nuance</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>CRV and GDC partner to revolutionize gaming industry</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2008/02/21/crv-and-gdc-partner-to-revolutionize-gaming-industry/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2008/02/21/crv-and-gdc-partner-to-revolutionize-gaming-industry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 16:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[charles river ventures]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We at CRV are producing a new program at GDC called Startup Launchpad.  Essentially, it&#8217;s a way for game developers - indie to amateur to professionals within studios - to learn how to become entrepreneurs and to become unshackled from the confines of the traditional game industry structure.
 As I&#8217;m sure many of you know, many game developers/designers toil long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Random stuff in my brain</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/09/05/random-stuff-in-my-brain/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/09/05/random-stuff-in-my-brain/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:01:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m heading off for the Austin Game Developers Conference this afternoon.  I&#8217;ll be there through Friday evening, if anyone wants to meet up.
I realized recently that I speak mostly in conclusions. That is to say, I am really bad at exposing my thought processes to other folks.  It&#8217;s one of the reasons why I blog so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for my SXSW panels please!</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/27/vote-for-sxsw-panels-please/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/27/vote-for-sxsw-panels-please/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 18:42:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Dearest Readers,
If you enjoy reading my blog or liked any of the panels and conferences I put together this past year, I would greatly appreciate your vote for my proposed SXSW panels:
Virtual Goods: The Next Big Business Model! 
What’s Wrong With Today’s Major Social Networks?
Human and Property Rights in Virtual Worlds
I haven&#8217;t put together who the rest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interview with Worlds in Motion</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/23/interview-with-worlds-in-motion/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/23/interview-with-worlds-in-motion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:38:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virtual worlds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Leigh Alexander, who is one of my favorite writers on the subject of virtual worlds, interviewed me about the future of online gaming.
The whole thing is worth a read - it turns out it&#8217;s a lot easier to speak casually with someone than to blog (surprise!).  In it, I talk about one of the holy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing Conduit Labs</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/22/introducing-conduit-labs/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/22/introducing-conduit-labs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2007 16:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[charles river ventures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[games]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[virtual worlds]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We just announced our recent Series A investment in Conduit Labs, a Boston based company that&#8217;s focused on building a social networking / casual MMO hybrid.  Well, what does that exactly mean? And aren&#8217;t there a hundred companies now doing this exact same thing? 
This new space - the intersection of Web 2.0 and online gaming - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I get some really weird, random searches on my blog</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/21/i-get-some-really-weird-random-searches-on-my-blog/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/21/i-get-some-really-weird-random-searches-on-my-blog/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2007 21:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I got 3 searches for &#8220;pirate&#8217;s booty.&#8221;  Today, I got one search for the &#8220;galapagos turtle.&#8221;  And another for &#8220;making lots of money.&#8221; These I understand, because there&#8217;s actually content here that refers to these topics.
But some searches are really strange and unexplainable:

&#8220;opening up front panel Wii&#8221;
&#8220;club penguin hacking accounts&#8221;
&#8220;posh spice new haircut&#8221;
&#8220;urban snorkeling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recent CRV Investments: Twitter &#38; Social Media</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/19/recent-crv-investments-twitter-social-media/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/19/recent-crv-investments-twitter-social-media/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2007 06:20:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[charles river ventures]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[venture capital]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve made a couple of interesting investments recently in the social media space - Twitter and well, the aptly named Social Media.  Social Media, the company, is building a highly viral network of micro-applications that live across multiple social networks.  The announcement regarding the Social Media funding is here.  Social Media is a 1st cousin to companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtual Goods Summit catchup and more</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/14/virtual-goods-summit-catchup-and-more/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/14/virtual-goods-summit-catchup-and-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:42:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Eesh.  I&#8217;m really playing catchup on this post.  My apologies.  If you want to be immersed in my life&#8217;s trivialities on a somewhat regular basis, you can follow my Twitter stream.  
For the 2 people that read my blog that don&#8217;t read Techcrunch (hi Mom, hi Grandma!), here&#8217;s a link to the Techcrunch article that I wrote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Areae and the rise of the Social Networking / MMO hybrid</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/08/14/areae-and-the-rise-of-the-social-networking-mmo-hybrid/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/08/14/areae-and-the-rise-of-the-social-networking-mmo-hybrid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2007 01:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started writing this blog, very few people were talking about the melding of MMOs and Web 2.0.  My goal for the last year was to proliferate this concept widely and to help bring together what I observed to be two very segregated, but highly complementary communities.  This was my motivation behind putting together a Virtual Worlds/Casual MMO [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome to the 1st ever Virtual Goods Summit</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/06/18/welcome-to-the-1st-ever-virtual-goods-summit/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/06/18/welcome-to-the-1st-ever-virtual-goods-summit/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jun 2007 22:20:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I am producing this awesome conference, the Virtual Goods Summit, with my friend Charles Hudson.   We wanted to put together a conference that moved the dialogue beyond &#8220;Virtual Worlds: Hype or Not&#8221; to discussions that can inform meaningful industry evolution and actual implementation.  With companies like Tencent ($500M+ yearly revenue) and Habbo Hotel ($65M yearly revenue) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m speaking at Digital Hollywood in LA today</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/06/13/im-speaking-at-digital-hollywood-in-la-today/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/06/13/im-speaking-at-digital-hollywood-in-la-today/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Jun 2007 14:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be moderating a panel from 3:50 - 5:00 pm at the Digital Hollywood conference in Santa Monica.  My panel is called &#8220;Micropayments &#38; MicroEconomies - Establishing a New E-Commerce Gateway to the Future&#8221;.  I didn&#8217;t name it.  Had I named it, it would simply be called &#8220;Microtransactions and Virtual Goods, the next big business model&#8221;.  You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Come to my Web 2.0 Expo panel: Gaia Online &#38; Club Penguin talk publicly for the first time ever</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/04/17/come-to-my-web-20-expo-panel-gaia-online-club-penguin-talk-publicly-for-the-first-time-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/04/17/come-to-my-web-20-expo-panel-gaia-online-club-penguin-talk-publicly-for-the-first-time-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 05:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[second life]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re at Web 2.0 Expo, come to my talk tomorrow, Wednesday from 3:20 - 4:10 pm in room 2009, about &#8220;the Future of Online Gaming &#38; Virtual Worlds.&#8221;   I&#8217;ve put together a wonderful group of panelists that includes:

Gene Yoon, VP Business Affairs for LindenLab / SecondLife
Craig Sherman, CEO of Gaia Online
Lane Merrifield, CEO of Club Penguin
Raph [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why emotional relationships with your users matter more than ever</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/03/14/why-emotional-relationships-with-your-users-matter-more-than-ever/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/03/14/why-emotional-relationships-with-your-users-matter-more-than-ever/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 16:05:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Umair Haque writes a blog called BubbleGeneration that I like a lot.  His writing has consistently helped me expand my thinking in many ways.  He recently commented on my post about why avatars are the web&#8217;s most undervalued asset today:
&#8220;Controlling the emotional intensity of an industry is an incredibly powerful source of advantage in the post-network [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW Panel: Web 2.0 to Web 3D [part 1]</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/03/13/sxsw-panel-web-20-to-web-3d-part-1/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/03/13/sxsw-panel-web-20-to-web-3d-part-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Folks like Wagner James Au and Mitch Wagner of InformationWeek have already blogged about the panel, but I wanted to share my presentation with the folks that couldn&#8217;t make it.  This is my take only.  The other panelists - Wagner James Au, Robert Scoble, and Robin Hunicke all had great things to say.  By the way, Robin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SXSW rocked</title>
		<link>http://reality.org/2007/03/13/sxsw-rocked/</link>
		<comments>http://reality.org/2007/03/13/sxsw-rocked/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2007 03:21:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>susanwu</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Best conference I&#8217;ve been to in a long time.  Fantastic creative energy.  Incredibly inspiring community of people.  So many interesting ideas percolating.  I feel like I&#8217;ve been missing out for years and my LFG was finally answered.  ;)  
I heard some awesome rumor that I hitchhiked back to Austin from dinner at the Salt Lick last night.   I did catch a ride back [...]]]></description>
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