B. SCOTT BURKETT
Serial Entrepreneur, Tech-Geek, Dad

If I can be of service to you, please do not hesitate to contact me. You can also find me on Twitter.

I am currently the COO of StarPound Technologies, an open-source software company that provides a platform for creating Enterprise 2.0 voice/data/web mashups and composite applications.

I also co-founded StartupLounge.com, which provides a focus on entrepreneurship and venture capital in the southeast. We publish a professionally-produced podcast which gets far more listens than we ever imagined it would.  We also do a boatload of free events for entrepreneurs and investors, including our thrice-yearly CapitalLounge event (which draw hundreds of fast-growth entrepreneurs and investors) and PitchCamp, which is a free interactive workshop session aimed at helping entrepreneurs refine their elevator pitch.  You can read about my partner-in-crime Mike Blake here.

Mike and I are involved in all sorts of exciting things here in Georgia, such as:

• Serving as mentors and judges for the Georgia Tech/Emory TI:GER Program, the Georgia Tech Business Plan Competition, and the Technology Association of Georgia’s Business Launch Competition
• Lecturing from time-to-time for the University of Georgia’s MBA Program in Athens, GA
• Even scarier than the above one, guest-teaching at places like Wheeler High School’s Magnet Program
• Pitching in to help folks like the Gwinnett County Chamber of Commerce, the American-Israeli Chamber of Commerce.
• Occasionally, we have the need to bail each other out of jail.  Thankfully, we know most of the attorneys in town (and the judges that matter).

Prior to StarPound, I was the interim-CEO, and later CEO/Chairman of PlayMotion, Inc.  I took over a company that had lost money for the first four years of its existence, and we turned it around.  We crossed the $1M revenue line for the first time, and were profitable on revenues of $1.5M.  We grew the business by 86% in 6 months.  We expanded the pipeline from $200K to nearly $10M, lowered the cost of sales by 17% and rolled out a new product line. It was cool.  We had a nice business portfolio with Walt Disney, Cartoon Network, NASCAR, Bravo TV, Sanofi Aventis, SEGA, and AMC Theaters. We also earned a Top 10 Innovative Company award from the Technology Association of Georgia.

Before diving into PlayMotion, I founded Incursio, which was a technology incubator/IP farm. We did 12 deals, sold 6 - so we batted .500 by the end of the run.

• an online image analysis ASP (sold the business)
• a popular P2P rating engine (sold the business)
• a portable software license management platform (C/C++, J2EE, PHP) (sold the business)
• a boutique web hosting provider serving 5K+ clients (sold the business)
• a niche B2C/B2B hybrid commerce site which grew to over 500,000 SKUs and inventories of $65M (sold the business)
• a 65,000+ subscriber online creative community (sold the business)
• a business intelligence social network (failed miserably - that’s life!)

I also started the “Gang of 5″ concept, a unique entrepreneurial advisory network.

Before starting Incursio, I was VP of Technology & Development for MetalMaker, Inc., a venture-backed startup B2B exchange on the supply side of the steel industry. We raised a boatload of money from Lehman Ventures, then ran into the dot com wall at 100 miles an hour. Shit happens.

I started my professional career in a big company, although our logo wasn’t as cool at the time:

I realized that big companies were not for me.  Entrepreneurial-minded people typically don’t do well working inside of a box.  So, I moved downstream and got into the consulting game.  It was marginally more fun telling other big companies what they should be doing.

Then, I got into startups, and lived happily ever after.

I used to do a fair amount of writing, and I do my fair share of speaking.  It’s fun - I love meeting new people who are swinging for the fences.

Oh, yeah, I used to be in the Army, too.  Good stuff.  I was stationed in cold-war era Germany back in the 1980s - 3rd Infantry Division (Mechanized), 1st Brigade, 3d Battalion, 64th Armored Regiment.  Rock of the Marne, baby. A shout out to all my old buddies who did their time at Conn Barracks in Schweinfurt.

I have a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a double major in Computer Information Systems from Thomas A. Edison State College.

I live in Atlanta, Georgia with my wife and daughter. We collect art, are patrons of Atlanta’s High Museum of Art, and we’re involved in a number of charities, including the Susan G. Komen Foundation, Habitat for Humanity, and the Humane Society.