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Florida Venture Fun(d)
Kudos to St. Pete Times business writer Robert Trigaux for his recent blog post (Can new fund boost Florida’s venture capital?) and his update on Florida’s Opportunity Fund. While the fund is far from new news, having several false starts and changes in leadership, the post does a good job of capturing some of the [...]
…and the winner is
…for most superficial view of technology and business in Florida … Brent Britton weighs in with his view of why Florida is the new rising star for tech. Based on research from the AeA, an industry organization whose statistics use a very wide definition of tech and tech workers, all is well in our home [...]
University Incubators…Here we go again!
The next economic development disaster is brewing up in Tallahassee. FSU officials there have Incubator Envy and are hell bent on keeping up with the Joneses (Tampa, Boca Raton, Orlando, Gainesville, Sarasota, etc.). In the process, they no doubt will lobby for tens of millions of taxpayer dollars to put up a shiny new building [...]
Open Source…I think I see the light!
I found this excellent open source as a business model rant on the Luminotes wiki. This is not the typical “everything should be digital and everything digital should be free” rant, instead the poster makes the argument that customers should pay for the VALUE derived from software and not simply ACCESS to software. This makes [...]
CoWorking Explained
Geekpreneur captures the essecnce of what coworking offers to both its members and the community. This is just one of the many great promo posts and press coverage that coworking is recieving around the country. Also checkout the recent story on Conjunctured Coworking in Austin.
For those who attended the Kauffman GEW Kickoff on 11/17 we made [...]
Entrepreneurship Week Begins Nov. 17th
On November 17th join Tampa’s business leaders and entrepreneurs to celebrate the contributions of the grass roots economic community and discuss the resources and investment required to help create the next generation of business in Tampa Bay.
Rebuilding the Economy with Innovation & Education:
Mike Brennan, Partner, Ernst & Young
Mark Sharpe, Hillsborough County [...]
