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    Date: March 7th, 2007

    Atlanta’s Wood-Chopping Entrepreneurs

    7 March, 2007 (12:17) | Atlanta Business Scene, Entrepreneurship | By: Scott Burkett

    axe.gifMost businesses fail. Most businesses with solid revenues don’t. Most businesses with traction at least have a fighting chance. You can’t gather around the fireplace and kick your feet up unless you have firewood out back – and you can only get that firewood by chopping.

    One of the big catch-phrases of 2006 was “chopping wood,” I phrase I picked up from Rutger’s football coach, Greg Schiano.

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