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	<title>The Adventures of Chris Schultz</title>
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		<title>Fast Company: Why You Should Start a Company in New Orleans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fast Company interviewed me for part 8 of their series &#8220;Why you should start a company in&#8230;.&#8221; where they have been profiling the best startup cities around the country.  It was a privilege to speak on behalf of so many great entrepreneurs in New Orleans.
If you haven&#8217;t seen it, why not give it a read.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2010/03/08/fast-company-why-you-should-start-a-company-in-new-orleans/</link>
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		<title>Aaron Patzer of Mint.com &#8211; Idea to $170mil aquisition in 3 years @ FOWA</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Aaron Patzer &#8211; Mint.com &#8211; How to Take Your Startup to the Next Level @ FOWA 2010
Idea to $170 mil acquisition in 3 years.
3 Phases of a Startup

Garage &#8211; &#60;$100k in funding

Validate and idea


Create a prototype


Seed &#60; $1mil

Launch and alpha product


Scale &#62; $1mil

Garage &#8211; Rapidly Validate an Idea
Original Idea: Goal setting software
Talk to as many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2010/02/23/aaron-patzer-mint/</link>
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		<title>Fred Wilson @ FOWA &#8211; 10 Golden Principles of Web Apps</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m at FOWA in Miami today w/ Peter and Alex from Flatsourcing.  The first presentation was from Fred Wilson who makes amazing investments in great companies:
Fred Wilson &#8211; 10 Golden Principles of Web Apps

Speed &#8211; The most important feature, if its not fast, users will leave.  Early adopters are forgiving, the mainstream is not.
Instant Utility [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2010/02/23/fred-wilson-fowa/</link>
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		<title>New York Startup Scene is Hot</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Bodenheimer and I went up the the Web 2.0 Expo the week before Thanksgiving, and spent the week hanging out with some pretty impressive folks. It&#8217;s clear there is a lot of energy in the NY startup scene right now, it reminded me of the first FOWA conference in 2006 where the Web 2.0 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/12/03/new-york-startup-scene-is-hot/</link>
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		<title>The Community is Gathering for TribeCon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taylor Davidson walked into Launch Pad yesterday, and I knew TribeCon had arrived. I don&#8217;t quite know why, but after all the work that has gone into this, having Taylor walk in was a powerful and emotional trigger for me. Not that seeing Nathan Heleine and Michael Karnjanaprakorn was too shabby, having them show up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/10/27/gathering-the-community-for-tribecon/</link>
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		<title>7 Reasons Your Boss Should Send You to TribeCon</title>
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So maybe you are having a hard time convincing your boss why to send you to TribeCon. We understand. It’s a work day and your time is valuable. And everyone is tightening their belts these days. But this is an experience we can’t see you miss out on. Let us help you make your case.
It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/10/09/7-reasons-your-boss-should-send-you-to-tribecon/</link>
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		<title>TribeCon &#8211; connect with your community</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited to share more details about TribeCon, a conference about communities &#8211; both online and offline.&#160; Tiffany Starnes and I have been working for the last six months to put it together along with a lot of help from our Tribal Council and a lot of friends from Net2NO.
We&#8217;re producing the conference in partnership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/09/15/tribecon-connect-community/</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s time for a mentorship-based seed fund in Louisiana</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s been a lot of good news lately about entrepreneurship in Louisiana. With the renewal of the digital media tax credit and the energy around startups lately, things are just going to start taking off, right?
Well, maybe.
I still see some gaps in current eco-system that can be filled with a true mentorship-based seed fund. (In [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/08/24/its-time-for-a-mentorship-based-seed-fund-in-louisiana/</link>
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		<title>When the going gets tough&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend emailed me this afternoon with a question:
How do you deal with the negative reviews/press/self doubt phase in this entrepreneurial world?
This is a great question, and one that we all have faced as entrepreneurs and undoubtedly will face again. Building a business, launching a product, producing anything is incredibly difficult. It is all-consuming and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/08/02/when-the-going-gets-tough/</link>
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		<title>Stay Positive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The last few months have been invigorating in New Orleans. There have a ton of exciting things going on in New Orleans, and the momentum in the entrepreneurial ecosystem is swelling to a head.
One thing that I&#8217;ve noticed myself slipping into, that I&#8217;m calling myself out on is the human tendency to lift yourself up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://chrisschultz.net/2009/07/17/stay-positive/</link>
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