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		<title>Announcing Ben&#8217;s Blog</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who have been keeping&#0160;up with this blog, you’ll know that my partner Ben Horowitz has been very actively blogging—and folks are paying attention. His post on All Things Digital called&#0160;The Case for the Fat Startup&#0160;struck a nerve in the startup community, prompting my good friend Fred Wilson to write a counter-post&#8230;<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blog.pmarca.com&amp;blog=2357285&amp;post=1122&amp;subd=pmarca&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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            <span style="color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px; ">For those of you who have been keeping&#0160;up with this blog, you’ll know that my partner Ben Horowitz has been very actively blogging—and folks are paying attention. His post on All Things Digital called&#0160;<a href="http://voices.allthingsd.com/20100317/the-case-for-the-fat-startup/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #467c8e; ">The Case for the Fat Startup</a>&#0160;struck a nerve in the startup community, prompting my good friend Fred Wilson to write a counter-post called&#0160;<a href="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/03/being-fat-is-not-healthy.html" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #467c8e; ">Being Fat is Not Healthy</a>, in turn prompting Ben to&#0160;write a counter-counter-post&#0160;defiantly&#0160;titled&#0160;<a href="http://bhorowitz.com/2010/03/20/revenge-of-the-fat-guy/" rel="noreferrer" style="color: #467c8e; ">Revenge of the Fat Guy</a>.</span><br />
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