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Collaborating on Black ICE

Scott Burkett — Tue, 21 May 2013 19:26:59 +0000

I am an avid video gamer, and love games of all types. I do have a particular interest in historical war and strategy games, though. And in my view, there are few finer than Paradox Interactive’s 2009 release of Hearts of Iron III for the PC. An instant classic in my view. I won’t go …

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Startup Lessons from CCP – EVE Online Style

Scott Burkett — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 00:35:32 +0000

About five or six years ago, when I was running PlayMotion, the good folks at IBM hosted a really cool dinner for a handful of gaming-industry CEOs here in Atlanta. It was a fairly intimate evening, with about 6 or 7 of us. What wasn’t to like? A swanky free meal, and a chance to …

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Failplans Stop Here – Part 5: Elevator Pitch

Scott Burkett — Wed, 05 Sep 2012 02:23:12 +0000

In the last installment, we covered deal tags. Now, moving up a level, we’re going to visit our old friend, the elevator pitch. Ah yes, the proverbial elevator pitch. Despite the name, elevator pitches are generally not delivered in an elevator. Frankly, let’s be honest here. It would be pretty damned weird to be on an elevator with someone and have them just start randomly pitching you on their deal.

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Failplans Stop Here – Part 4: Deal Tags

Scott Burkett — Sat, 01 Sep 2012 15:18:04 +0000

This is Part 4 of the “Failplans Stop Here” series. or are something I created a few years back. The thought behind it is quite simple: apply the principles of content tagging to a business plan, pitch, etc. I’ve always appreciated those situations in which a really strong marketing tagline on the cover of a …

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Failplans Stop Here – Part 3: The Top, er, Bottom, of the Pyramid

Scott Burkett — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 13:12:39 +0000

This is Part 3 of the “Failplans Stop Here” series. So now that you’ve suffered through my ramblings about how most business plans suck, and we’ve introduced the fictitious company we’ll be working with in our exercise, it’s time to begin digging into the process of creating our doc set. I hereby name this methodology …

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Failplans Stop Here – Part 2: Introducing Frobozz!

Scott Burkett — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:12:27 +0000

This is Part 2 of the “Failplans Stop Here” series. Introducing Frobozz, Inc., Our Fictitious Company As I mentioned in the introductory post, we are going to not only talk the talk in this series, we’re going to walk-the-walk as well. Instead of regurgitating tomes of “best practices”, we’re going to create a fictitious company …

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Pitch Your Deal to Secret Sig

Scott Burkett — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 02:44:13 +0000

The backstory and motivation behind the creation of the Virtual Pitch Session with a Bobblehead version of legendary Atlanta technology angel investor, Sig Mosley.

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Failplans Stop Here – Part 1: Introduction

Scott Burkett — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 18:50:33 +0000

If you know me through the startup scene in Atlanta, you know that I am involved in quite a number of different business plan competitions, entrepreneur-mentoring circles, and investor happenings. Frankly, as much as I enjoy it all, I’m simply tired of seeing Failplan after Failplan and Failpitch after Failpitch out there. And it stops …

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Cultural Ramblings – Ten Observations on Company Culture

Scott Burkett — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:32:02 +0000

In cleaning out the more than 200 old draft blog posts I’ve started, I’ve identified a handful that I think are worth finishing – this is one of them, started over two years ago. Enjoy, or not. The other day I was having a chat with a fellow entrepreneur here in town, and one of …

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Bootstrapping Infographic

Scott Burkett — Wed, 02 May 2012 00:23:52 +0000

Well, more like a wallpaper. Something we whipped for for lols and grins. Enjoy. Click on the image for the larger version. Feel free to share. Cheers.