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		<title>how free pays</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 16:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog post does not advocate free products/services.  Chris Anderson sockpuppetry may be found elsewhere. This blog post does not trash the freemium model, either.   Instead, it looks at business realities &#8211; cost of customer acquisition, revenue per customer, growth and scalabaility &#8211; advocating a large strategic toolbox and a careful selection, informed by hard [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Red Pill Diaries</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:09:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Red Pill is an irreversible choice &#8211; once you take the Red Pill, you look at the world in a new way. The Kauffman Foundation has been dispensing this prescription in the form of its FastTrac program, noting the uptick in accidental entrepreneurship. Detroit&#8217;s TechTown SmartZone will help mint, mentor and manage 1,200 new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>bcVentures</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 18:22:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Problem: Virtual economic development projects are hard to track.  Resources are hard to marshal.  Too few economic developers have too many startups to manage. Opportunities are missed, and clients go under-served. Solution: Establish an online virtual business incubator portal, linking stakeholders, service providers and clients.  Track progress through stagegates to leverage coaching resources. Recruit and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Spam</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2008 05:05:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rarely is the easiest way to reach out to a potential new client the best way to reach out to a potential new client. Consider the email below: From: [Sender Name Withheld] To: [The full name and email addresses of 29 people] Subject: Real Estate Needs Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:07:53 -0400 Hello all, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When push comes to shovel</title>
		<link>http://www.factotem.com/wp/titanic-dilemma/104/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:46:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As an entrepreneur, you do it all, you work long hours, you sweat the details. Clients come first. Also investors, employees, family. There&#8217;s no &#8220;me&#8221; in &#8220;entrepreneur.&#8221; That means professional development often takes a sideline to business development. Investing in skills seems selfish &#8211; a waste of resources better spent building the business. Until you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Air&#8221; Pollution</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 19:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Microsoft has been an invaluable asset to Google in its effort to brand itself, &#8220;as Air.&#8221; There&#8217;s no doubt who the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Be Evil&#8221; mantra refers to. And it doesn&#8217;t hurt that Steve Ballmer looks a little like Dick Cheney. In contrast, Google wants to be Air. Who doesn&#8217;t like Air? It&#8217;s ubiquitous, transparent, essential, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RTP needs connectors</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 04:03:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Accelerator]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Clayton Stobbs, the facilitator of SWA2, invited me to join him in my old stomping ground of Research Triangle Park, NC for the next Startup Weekend event, July 11-13. Clay liked the new format beta-tested by SWA2 poobah, Laura &#8220;mitten&#8221; Fisher: 97 participants pitched 34 ideas, formed 13 Teams and started 11 new companies. (Previous [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zola, Sweetwaters, Primo &#8230; Frasers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ed concocted a startup cafe crawl: Get up early and hit Zola&#8217;s for funding &#8211; that&#8217;s where the VC&#8217;s and angels eat breakfast. Head to SweetWaters to network for your BizDev talent. Thence to Primo to recruit developers. Lunch at Vinology, home to the marketing-types. What, no beer? &#8220;Leopold&#8217;s closed.&#8221; Undaunted, I headed to Fraser&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>StartUp WeekEnd is an Oxymoron</title>
		<link>http://www.factotem.com/wp/startup-weekend-is-an-oxymoron/94/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 22:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[First off, it&#8217;s not about the Startup, it&#8217;s about the process. Second, it&#8217;s not a Weekend, it&#8217;s a lifestyle. Ann Arbor won StartupWeekend&#8217;s &#8220;primary election,&#8221; garnering the most signatures on its petition to host an event, besting little towns like San Diego, Minneapolis, and Columbus (whose own event comes in July), and further reinforcing Ann [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Internetworking and entrepreneurship</title>
		<link>http://www.factotem.com/wp/internetworking-and-entrepreneurship/89/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Ann Arbor Drupal User&#8217;s Group &#8220;a2drupal&#8221; was formed last year to serve local open source content management system adherents &#8211; publishers and geeks, marketers and bloggers &#8211; providing a forum for f2f social networking, professional development, mashups, and beer. a2drupal is only the umpteenth group to emerge from Ann Arbor&#8217;s heady IT ecosystem and [...]]]></description>
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