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		<title>dream street</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
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sometimes starting a company is like playing house&#8230; especially when you&#8217;re setting up your office.
both my co-founder tyler and i have always felt strongly that the environment we set up now will play a significant role in shaping the culture and the values of the company we&#8217;re building at carsala. we are also both pretty [...]]]></description>
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<p style="text-align: left;">sometimes starting a company is like playing house&#8230; especially when you&#8217;re setting up your office.</p>
<p>both my co-founder tyler and i have always felt strongly that the environment we set up now will play a significant role in shaping the culture and the values of the company we&#8217;re building at <a href="http://www.carsala.com" target="_blank">carsala</a>. we are also both pretty frugal to a fault, so we started off for our interior decoration with a very (VERY) limited budget.</p>
<p>we ended up with some pretty cool looking desks with trestles and somewhat comfortable chairs, each under $100.</p>
<p>next challenge was to find some art for the walls.</p>
<p>my pick for the technology and marketing room was the photograph above by renowned photojournalist <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Eugene_Smith" target="_blank">w. eugene smith</a> called &#8220;dream street&#8221;. i felt it was very appropriate for a handful of people who have set out to change the single largest retail segment of the US economy (44M used cars are sold every year, representing $365 billion).</p>
<p>the entrepreneurial spirit is really one with the spirit of the dreamer&#8230; the pursuit of  creation of something out of nothing&#8230; the pursuit of something better and greater&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8220;dream street&#8221; embodies this entrepreneurial spirit &#8211; the spirit we have at <a title="carsala" href="http://www.carsala.com" target="_blank">carsala</a>.</p>
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