Category: Chatter (anything goes)
Does your market buzz sound like a squeal?
As a follow-up to my involvement in the FastTrac – TechVenture series co-hosted by St. Pete College & the STARTEC Accelerator, I am re-posting one of my all time favorites by Steve Johnson of Pragmatic Marketing “Stop Perfuming the Pig“.
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
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







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