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	<description>Blogging, opining, ruminating, and pontificating on entrepreneurship, venture capital, process improvement, technology, online communities, business networking, IT Management, online social networking, and other things that melt in the warm Atlanta sun.</description>
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		<title>The Answer is Blowin&#8217; in the Wind</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every few months or so, various Atlanta startup thought leaders are corralled together on a panel or round-table to discuss what can be done to improve our startup ecosystem.  Invariably, the outcome is the same: a regurgitated list of things we already know all too well.
Examples:

Lack of local funding sources for early-stage companies
Lack of management [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/atlanta-business-scene/2010-02-09/the-answer-is-blowin-in-the-wind.html</link>
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		<title>Faded Glory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just ordered my personal copy of Faded Glory, a documentary produced by my friend and Atlanta-based filmmaker, Rick Cohen.  If you are actively involved in the Atlanta startup scene, you may have run into Rick before.  Besides being a great guy, and an awesome filmmaker, the story behind the story is one for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/misc/2010-01-15/faded-glory.html</link>
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		<title>Great Startup Opportunity in Atlanta</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, out of the chaos of business, great ideas emerge.  Unfortunately, you rarely have the chance to aggressively chase those great ideas in the here-and-now.
I&#8217;ll be blogging more about this soon, but we&#8217;ve been pretty busy at StarPound lately.  We ended Q4/2009 strong, including the deployment of our platform to solve some major problems for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/atlanta-business-scene/2010-01-04/great-startup-opportunity-in-atlanta.html</link>
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		<title>A Letter to Mikie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Warning to readers: This is not my typical blog post about venture capital, entrepreneurship, startups, etc.  This is a very personal, unfiltered stream of thoughts.  If you have a problem with profanity &#8211; stop now.


Dear Mike,
I still remember giving you shit about your middle name.  Austin.  &#8220;The 6 Million Dollar Man&#8221;.  I&#8217;ve no idea why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/misc/2009-10-22/a-letter-to-mikie.html</link>
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		<title>Calacanis on Paying-to-Pitch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jason Calacanis has a new cause.  He is railing against the so-called &#8220;pay-to-pitch&#8221; phenomenon.  A good read &#8211; check it out here.
Update: Scoble, Fred, and Lance have since commented on it as well.
My views on the pay-to-pitch thing are pretty well known, as I&#8217;ve written about it a ton in the past, and we&#8217;ve torn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/entrepreneurship/2009-10-09/calacanis-on-paying-to-pitch.html</link>
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		<title>RIP: Atlanta Cloud</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Several weeks ago, Unblakeable and I spoke at the monthly gathering of the Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs group.  We provided a pretty thorough treatment of where we thought the Atlanta startup community was in terms of its maturity, and then presented a concept that we thought was pretty compelling at the time &#8211; the Atlanta Startup [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/atlanta-business-scene/2009-08-25/rip-atlanta-cloud.html</link>
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		<title>Tarantula Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few months ago, Paul Freet (VentureLab) reached out to me and asked if StarPound would be interested in being a beta tester for a new software testing platform (Tarantula) being developed by a team of researchers at Georgia Tech.  I forwarded the message on to our CTO, Wei Wang, who followed up with the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/uncategorized/2009-08-13/tarantula-experiment.html</link>
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		<title>Reflecting on Independence Day &#8211; and Announcing VetLoop.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I can still remember the grainy television images of the smoke billowing into the sky, people screaming, sirens blaring.   The images of hundreds of body bags stacked neatly beside the rubble, juxtaposed against a noisy backdrop of frenetic movement.  It was October 23rd, 1983, just 8 short years after the end of the Vietnam War.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/misc/2009-07-06/reflecting-on-independence-day-and-announcing-vetloopcom.html</link>
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		<title>Last One Off the Clue Train is a Rotten Peach!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Urvaksh over at the Atlanta Business Chronicle recently published an article providing some coverage of the new $250M fund being launched by the State of Florida.  After reading it, I became engulfed in a sea of emotions, ranging from frustration to anger, finally settling on a mix of sadness and reflection.
The only thing that can [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/atlanta-business-scene/2009-06-23/last-one-off-the-clue-train-is-a-rotten-peach.html</link>
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		<title>Okay, Atlanta.  Now What?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you care at all about the Atlanta startup ecosystem, Mike Blake and I humbly request your presence next week at the monthly Atlanta Web Entrepreneurs meeting (18th at the ATDC).  Mike Schinkel and the AWE gang have graciously invited Unblakeable and I to present our views of where Atlanta is right now, where we&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.scottburkett.com/index.php/atlanta-business-scene/2009-06-11/okay-atlanta-now-what.html</link>
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