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	<title>Florida Venture Blog &#187; 2009 &#187; January</title>
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	<description>by Dan Rua...just a VC, living vicariously thru entrepreneurs...</description>
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		<title>Spread the Wealth: The Gasparilla Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of FAQFriday, this post is about a bunch of questions our society wrestles with daily. I hope the example I share doesn&#8217;t trivialize the magnitude of the questions&#8230;although I usually try to answer questions on FAQFriday, I&#8217;m the one asking today &#8212; and I expect some answers! Last weekend my family drove down [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burnham Institute Update</title>
		<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 had the opportunity to once again attend the Foley Leadership Series sponsored by the Foley Lardner Law Firm meeting held a few weeks back at the CityArts Factory on South Orange Ave. in downtown [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2009/01/burnham-institute-update.html</link>
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		<title>Riskmasters Know How to Prioritize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You have probably already heard that VCs love to back serial entrepreneurs, but why is that?  What makes them special? Well, it&#8217;s a mix of things, but one trait I&#8217;ve witnessed across a decent sample size is the ability to prioritize and reprioritize in a nimble, but thoughtful fashion.  All entrepreneurs are risk-takers, but the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEBIO Conference: Sharklet Chomps the Shootout</title>
		<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 The annual Southeast BIO Conference (SEBIO) meeting wrapped up several weeks ago in Palm Beach on December 5th.  I was not able to attend due to prior family commitments up north…and by the way—I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://floridaventureblog.com/2009/01/sebio-conference-sharklet-chomps.html</link>
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		<title>Florida Opportunity Fund</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Despite my time off the grid for the holidays it was hard to miss some of the buzz around the recently announced Florida Opportunity Fund.  It didn&#8217;t hurt that I&#8217;ve been following the topic closely for the last year &#8212; you can imagine it&#8217;s close to my heart.  The origin of the Florida Opportunity Fund [...]]]></description>
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