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		<title>America’s hodge-podge of scientists, institutions, and funding</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fred Schwarz, in The Uncertainty Principle, argues that an economy&#8217;s ability to generate innovative companies results not only from the availability of seed capital, but the structure of the early-stage investing ecosystem: While scientific research in other industrialized nations is centralized, hierarchical, and bureaucratic, in America it is competitive and entrepreneurial.  This is not to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/09/01/america%e2%80%99s-hodge-podge-of-scientists-institutions-and-funding/</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneurial silver lining in today’s economic clouds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The economic future just happened.  This study from the Kauffman Foundation  finds that well over half of the companies on the 2009 Fortune 500 list, and just under half of the 2008 Inc. list, began during a recession or bear market. The patents for the Television, Jukebox, and Nylon were granted during The Great Depression.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/08/26/entrepreneurial-silver-lining-in-today%e2%80%99s-economic-clouds/</link>
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		<title>What the rest of the country can learn from Texas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve often written of the many reasons we prefer to live, work, and invest in the Southeast and Texas. To cite additional evidence in support of our position might have us justifiably accused of &#8220;selling past the close,&#8221; but this one we like because we found it off the beaten path, in The Weekly Standard. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/08/12/what-the-rest-of-the-country-can-learn-from-texas/</link>
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		<title>Hooks Johnston on Seed Investing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We focus our efforts at Ballast Point Ventures on growth equity or &#8220;expansion capital&#8221; financing, meaning we tend to invest once a company has generated at least a few million dollars in revenue and has proven the viability of the business model.  Of course, from a 20,000 foot perspective of the private equity spectrum, these [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/08/04/hooks-johnston-on-seed-investing/</link>
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		<title>Scripps Florida builds SE biotech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Business Review credits Scripps Florida for its impact on biotech innovation. (Subscription required) Scripps Florida &#8211; the first and sole satellite of the Scripps Research Institute, is one of only three national translational research high-throughput screening centers approved by the NIH and received the first NIH drug development grant. Its presence has helped [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/08/02/scripps-florida-builds-se-biotech/</link>
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		<title>Upcoming Florida Early Stage Conference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This October 5, Florida entrepreneurs will showcase their high-growth emerging companies at the 2010 Early Stage Venture Capital Conference, hosted by the Florida Venture Forum at the Omni Orlando Resort at ChampionsGate. Venture capitalists, angel investors, private equity investors and service providers from Florida and around the nation will gather to support and encourage early stage investing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/08/02/upcoming-florida-early-stage-conference/</link>
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		<title>Capital gains stealing your equity?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taxes are a major determinant of the returns on any investment, and especially for an entrepreneur whose company is often his or her primary vehicle of wealth creation. Two significant changes to the tax code are likely to occur in the next few years, both of which will directly affect entrepreneurs: The tax cuts passed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/07/22/capital-gains-stealing-your-equity/</link>
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		<title>Mr. Williams Goes to Washington</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Rhys Williams is an old friend of BPV and both a successful biotech entrepreneur and a founding member and President of one of the largest and most successful statewide angel investing groups in Florida (New World Angels).  So we were delighted to hear that Rhys was recently invited by Senator George LeMieux (R-FL) to testify at the &#8220;Innovation in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/07/15/mr-williams-goes-to-washington/</link>
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		<title>Encouraging Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Some excellent advice on new technologies:  even when there is no immediately apparent benefit to your business, having employees dabble a bit with &#8220;the technology of the era&#8221; helps them imagine what might be technologically possible. Dreaming big, innovating in processes/systems unrelated to the technology, spotting early trends for customers and vendors (or portfolio companies, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/07/07/encouraging-innovation/</link>
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		<title>Where America&#8217;s Money is Moving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Forbes analyzed IRS data to determine future &#8220;hot spots&#8221; for real estate and concluded what we already knew:  Americans prefer the good weather, low taxes, and favorable business climate offered by the Southeast. The dominance of the list by Florida and Texas&#8211;the former has eight of the top 20 counties, the latter four&#8211; makes sense [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.navigatingventure.com/2010/06/29/where-americas-money-is-moving/</link>
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