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		<title>Techpreneurship: Making the Home Solar Numbers Work</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/07/01/techpreneurship-making-the-home-solar-numbers-work/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time for some basic capital budgeting math.  What conclusion does any wise techpreneur come to when the payback period for a home solar system capital purchase is 20-plus years and the expected useful system life is 10 to 12?? ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Technology Venture Showcase is June 16th</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/06/10/techpreneurship-technology-venture-showcase-is-june-16th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:09:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovate Arkansas has teamed with the Harrison Chamber of Commerce and NorthArk to host the Innovate Arkansas Technology Venture Showcase lunch in Harrison for the first time ever.]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Elevator Pitch 101</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/04/07/techpreneurship-elevator-pitch-101/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:47:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scarcity...Money...Time...Patience.  Investors and customers suffer from a serious case of acute and chronic scarcity.  So you think you're going to get an hour of their time to sell your concept, business plan, technology, product, or service to them?  ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Integrity Matters</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/03/04/techpreneurship-integrity-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 15:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As techpreneurs, we continuously claw our way across a minefield of scarcity. The scarcity of funding, scarcity of talent, scarcity of customers, and scarcity of time define the daunting challenges all early-stage ventures face.  ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship:  Wisdom of the Crowd</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/02/25/techpreneurship-wisdom-of-the-crowd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The proliferation of social media has created an amazing way to do polling, focus groups, and in general to tap the "wisdom of the crowd."]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Innovate Arkansas Technology Venture Showcase</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/02/18/techpreneurship-innovate-arkansas-technology-venture-showcase/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The next IA Technology Venture Showcase will be in Little Rock at the Winrock HQ on March 17th from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Calling All Angels&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/02/04/techpreneurship-calling-all-angels/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/02/04/techpreneurship-calling-all-angels/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovate Arkansas is sponsoring monthly Technology Venture Showcase lunch meetings to highlight promising early-stage ventures here in the state. ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: Adversity Builds a &#8216;Start-up Nation&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2010/01/14/techpreneurship-adversity-builds-a-start-up-nation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:36:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Arkansans are continually underestimated.  Any success we have had in building great world-class companies, we did ourselves without much help from the brain trusts on either coast. ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: How Can We Play in the Mobility Tsunami?</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2009/12/03/techpreneurship-how-can-we-play-in-the-mobility-tsunami/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:42:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We're seeing a convergence of unbelievable handheld computing power, very high speed yet affordable wireless networks, and a silly-huge number of applications enter the market. ]]></description>
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		<title>Techpreneurship: George Rathmann &#8211; Biotech Pioneer</title>
		<link>http://blog.innovatearkansas.org/2009/11/19/techpreneurship-george-rathmann-biotech-pioneer/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jamerine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1980, George and a few other intrepid techpreneurs and research scientists jumped out of their corporate jobs and academic positions to create a new kind of company...]]></description>
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