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	<title>Florida Venture Blog &#187; 2008</title>
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	<description>by Dan Rua...just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs...</description>
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		<title>Budgets: Past Performance and Future Results</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2008 22:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bridge financing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[budgets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[faqfriday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forecasting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[projecting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Almost all investment literature warns you that past performance is no guarantee of future results. That disclaimer usually prompts, for me, a juxtaposition with Einstein&#8217;s definition of insanity: &#8220;doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.&#8221;  So, which is it? I have no idea, but I consider both of these concepts as I review portfolio [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Life Science Entrepreneurs Still Shaking the MoneyTree</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/12/lifescience-entrepreneurs-still-shaking.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/12/lifescience-entrepreneurs-still-shaking.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:11:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[guest posts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life science]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mike schmitt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[moneytree]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by: Mike Schmitt, MD Life Science Analyst and Editor of the Florida BioDatabase Mike can be reached at M2Schmitt@aol.com Ok, enough already! Amidst all the economic “doom and gloom” from the daily news feeds—I actually do have something encouraging to share (well, at least for the moment until the Dow plunges another 10%). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adobe Air Trademark Auction?</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/12/adobe-air-trademark-auction.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/12/adobe-air-trademark-auction.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[adobe]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[adobe air]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air apps]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[irony]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trademark]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Upon opening my office snailmail today I was surprised to find a brochure publicizing a &#8220;Webcast Auction&#8221; liquidating AdobeAir® products.  I didn&#8217;t remember MasterCool or ArchCircle apps based upon AdobeAIR.  As I looked inside I was even more intrigued by the opportunity to bid on intellectual property including the AdobeAir® trademark.   Of course, this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exactech, Orthopaedic Implants: Makes Top Company Lists</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/exactech-orthopaedic-implants-makes-top.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/exactech-orthopaedic-implants-makes-top.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[exactech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[florida trend]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[forbes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[knee replacement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medical device]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[medtechthursday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[orthopaedic implants]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[peter jacobsen]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by: Mike Schmitt, MD Life Science Analyst and Editor of the Florida BioDatabase Mike can be reached at M2Schmitt@aol.com I happened to be at Barnes &#38; Noble a few weeks back savoring my favorite grande Starbucks (yes, “I have to have it”—being the self-admitted caffeine junkie that I am), when the October 27th [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everybody Loves a Cereal Entrepreneur</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/everybody-loves-cereal-entrepreneur.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/everybody-loves-cereal-entrepreneur.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cereal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cereal entrepreneur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[serial entrepreneur]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ted murphy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Investors, employees, partners&#8230;everybody enjoys doing business with an entrepreneur who has successfully built multiple companies. If that serial entrepreneur kicks off a charity contest involving a bathtub full of cereal, even better. Checkout what Ted is up to now. He&#8217;s announced a contest to give away a bathtub of cereal (52 boxes) to one lucky [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Team Building: Cultivating Your Greatest Asset</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/team-building-cultivating-your-greatest.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/team-building-cultivating-your-greatest.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[team building]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[teamwork]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve said it many times before, but people make or break any company. My &#8220;foxhole&#8221; post highlighted that teams grow in importance during the tough times. However, team cohesion doesn&#8217;t just happen, it takes work. When I first left college as an engineer, I&#8217;ll admit, team building exercises at IBM seemed hokey and hardly worth [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McColo Spam Botnets Taken Down to Chinatown</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/mccolo-spam-botnets-taken-down-to.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/mccolo-spam-botnets-taken-down-to.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 14:51:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[botnets]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mccolo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mega-d]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[network security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[pusho]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rustock]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[sinowal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I will be watching you and if I find that you are trying to corrupt my first born child, I will bring you down, baby. I will bring you down to Chinatown.&#8221; &#8212; Jack Byrnes, Meet the Parents A San Jose, CA hosting company, McColo Corp, that many security experts claim is linked to spam, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEMDA Regional Meeting: Physician Advisors</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/semda-regional-meeting-physician.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/semda-regional-meeting-physician.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 13:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[conferences]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you didn&#8217;t catch the Southeastern Medical Device Association&#8217;s event earlier this week at Mercer, another is right around the corner, closer to home.  On Tuesday December 9, starting at 5:30pm, you can attend SEMDA&#8217;s &#8220;Working with Physician Advisors &#8211; The New Paradigm&#8220;.  The event is being held at the Gainesville Area Chamber of Commerce, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tough Times are Telling Times</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/tough-times-are-telling-times.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/tough-times-are-telling-times.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[foxhole]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now you should have read plenty of entrepreneur/VC advice on surviving in the post-mortgage crisis world.  I won&#8217;t rehash it here, but 2009 will be tough and today&#8217;s difficult decisions will separate the next batch of startup winners and losers.  One topic I haven&#8217;t seen covered much is the interpersonal opportunity that these tough [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BioFlorida Conference</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/bioflorida-conference.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bioflorida]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bob ingram]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burnham]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by: Mike Schmitt, MD Life Science Analyst and Editor of the Florida BioDatabase Mike can be reached at M2Schmitt@aol.com For those involved in the Florida life science industry, if you are looking to “see and be seen”, the annual BioFlorida conference is THE place. Unfortunately, I was not able to attend this years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USB Turntable: Rip Your Vinyl</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/usb-turntable-rip-your-vinyl.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/11/usb-turntable-rip-your-vinyl.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cheech and chong]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eagles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[funkadelic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jules lavan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[kiss]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might call this an Old-to-NewMediaMonday post, bridging LPs to digital tracks. A couple months ago I found an old LP on eBay, composed by my grandfather (Jules Lavan) who used to be a big band/jazz composer. I hit &#8216;Buy Now&#8217; and waited for it to arrive, and waited (it took awhile). When it arrived, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Twitter Icons for Halloween or Helloween?</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/twitter-icons-halloween-or-helloween.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/twitter-icons-halloween-or-helloween.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[halloween]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[halloween icons]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[twitter]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[twitter icons]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whoa&#8230;I just noticed some slick Halloween icons float thru my twitter feed and chased down these tweets from J. Adam Moore: &#8220;Whoa, I just shat a bunch of halloween icons all over my twitter page. 18 minutes ago from web 19 minutes ago from web 20 minutes ago from webI feel like 21 minutes ago [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Free Money for Life Science Entrepreneurs</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/free-money-for-life-science.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/free-money-for-life-science.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[competition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mike schmitt]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by: Mike Schmitt, MD Life Science Analyst and Editor of the Florida BioDatabase Mike can be reached at M2Schmitt@aol.com “Free Money” for life science entrepreneurs with up to $100,000 in cash and services! Now that I have your full attention (I had to get a “hook” in there somewhere—the money may not be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google TAC Deception and Marketplace Margins</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/google-tac-deception-and-marketplace.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/google-tac-deception-and-marketplace.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ebay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[google]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gross margin]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Google&#8217;s better-than-expected 3rd Quarter earnings last week was welcome news to a nervous market and a valley on the verge of panic. There was a lot of juicy data to dig into, but one Q&#38;A that caught my eye was: Q: A little more clarification to improvement in margins. Was that through better AdSense deals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cool Graphics Chips, Thanks to Celsia NanoSpreaders</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/cool-graphics-chips-thanks-to-celsia.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/cool-graphics-chips-thanks-to-celsia.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[amd]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[anton shilov]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Celsia Tehnologies is developing new coolers that will send conventional heat-pipe technology into oblivion&#8221; I like the sound of that, and it&#8217;s not even my words. They&#8217;re from Theo Valich, who reviewed the recent partnership announced between AMD and Inflexion portfolio company Celsia. The announcement was also covered by Anton Shilov at X-bit labs. Celsia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Performance Marketing for Blogs, IZEA Innovates Again</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/performance-marketing-for-blogs-izea.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/performance-marketing-for-blogs-izea.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[affiliate networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first invested into IZEA, I liked the parallel between Google&#8217;s sponsored search (pioneered by GoTo/Overture) and IZEA&#8217;s sponsored content. Google&#8217;s sponsored search pays for all the other cool free stuff they offer, and is the foundation for much of the internet ecosystem &#8212; it&#8217;s arguably the most successful online business model to date. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEBIO Update: Florida Catches North Carolina</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/sebio-update-florida-catches-north.html</link>
		<comments>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/sebio-update-florida-catches-north.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[atlas spine]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Post by: Mike Schmitt, MD Life Science Analyst and Editor of the Florida BioDatabase Mike can be reached at M2Schmitt@aol.com       Florida is ready to make a good impression at the upcoming Southeast BIO (SEBIO) Conference to be held on December 4-5, 2008 in Palm Beach.  SEBIO is a non-profit public/private partnership to promote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jim Kukral Cracks Me Up</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/jim-kukral-cracks-me-up.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[jim kukral]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[marketing genius]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve followed Jim Kukral since well before he called one of my entrepreneurs a f*cking marketing genius, and really enjoy his unique blend of social media advice and humor. As I was reading his &#8220;Do Not Give Up&#8221; post for entrepreneurs, I noticed this subscribe banner on the bottom. The man is funny&#8230; Let&#8217;s get to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Make Sure You &#8216;Get&#8217; This Memo</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/make-sure-you-get-this-memo.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 03:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[bubble]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[burn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[doug leone]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eric upin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[michael beckwith]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple memos are making the rounds today that are worth sharing. Uber-angel Ron Conway and Sequoia both delivered portfolio-wide guidance to raise money sooner (if possible), cut expenses ASAP and survive (forget about thrive). The only no-BS color I&#8217;ll provide is that during the tech bubble, West coast firms felt this pain about 3-4 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should Entrepreneurs Look For in Company Counsel?</title>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2008/10/what-should-entrepreneurs-look-for-in.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 22:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[danny sokol]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dave felman]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a talk today with Dave Felman at UF&#8217;s Law School (Professor Danny Sokol&#8216;s class), a student asked what I look for in venture capital counsel.  It was a good question, and the answer for me is similar to what I&#8217;d recommend for entrepreneurs vetting company counsel. Although good lawyers come in many packages, there [...]]]></description>
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