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Welcome to SL #35! We kicked off the 2009 podcast season with a great chat with Joel Lanik of Frontier Capital out of Charlotte, North Carolina.  Frontier is one of many regional venture capital funds that routinely visits Atlanta in search of new deals.  In addition to talking about their newly closed venture fund, we spoke about the current state of the economy, and the impact it is having on their fund and their portfolio companies.

The 2009 TAG/GRA Business Launch Competition is coming up, and we discussed it in the opening of the show.  “Under the Bus” or “Look Who Gets It?” – Tune in to find out!  Mike also challenges Scott to a startup mentoring challenge for charity (the gloves are off now, folks). Another great selection of listener emails and a dash of StartupLounge humor to top it all off. Enjoy!

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