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End-of-year twitter digest, 2012
December 31, 2012
Thank you to all our readers for joining the conversation here in 2012. We wish you all a happy and prosperous 2013!
Offered for your reading pleasure, in case you missed any: a compendium of our twitter highlights from 2012.
- When it comes to green investing, political venture capital is a loser. Or as we put it back in 2009: “We’re concerned that the clean tech sector is over-invested, with too much capital chasing two few viable business models. There’s no question that big companies will be built in the clean-tech sector, but the risk-reward ratio continues to worry us, particularly in light of the government’s increasing, but often fickle, involvement in the industry. If the industry continues to grow, there should be a number of new opportunities for interested Southeastern investors.”
- Increasing taxes on investment is akin to building a pitcher-friendly park and keeping the infield grass long: better plan on low-scoring games. Our letter in the Wall Street Journal.
- Great cartoon about TX’s friendly biz climate vs. CA – who just became more hostile to entrepreneurs. Again.
- Why Angel Investors Don’t Make Money … And Advice For People Who Are Going To Become Angels Anyway
- History of iconic fast food & convenience stores. Some interesting stories of adaptability. McD’s started as BBQ?!
- Florida’s space, robotics, and biotech rank it 10th most entrepreneurial state
- If you can sing (and you can), can you innovate?
- Ideas for modernizing and streamlining FDA approval process.
- Atlanta, Orlando, Tampa, Dallas all rank Top 5 in Best US Cities for Biz
- North Texas: w/capital scarce outside of energy & real estate, the gap is filled by venture capital firms like BPV.
- Why Some Startups Succeed And Others Fail: 10 Fascinating Harvard Findings
- The Economist: “Where angels will tread” – where start-ups will create the next billion-dollar companies.
- HBS Working Knowledge: Are creative people more dishonest?
- USF-led partnership awarded $1 million to launch new companies
- Watermark Medical can help: Half of women may have sleep apnea
- Dell & Intel bullish on South Florida start-up environment
- “If you want to be inventive, you have to be willing to fail.”
- Apple to expand in Austin, investing $304 million and creating 3600 jobs
- Southeast tops CEO ranking of states best for business. TX #1 for 8th straight yr; FL, NC, TN rank 2,3 & 4
- All-in-one diabetes testing combines lancet, glucose meter
- @BumperCrop takes home second place in the 2012 Startup Bus.
- House Cmte votes 2 ease IPO regs. BPV model not reliant on IPOs, but still: good news. Senate action to follow?
- Will innovation make the future dazzling, or merely bright? The future is dematerializing.
- Startup rates surge in US and abroad. In US it’s b2b, in LDCs it’s b2c.
- OECD report: Angels play crucial role. Their support tends to be more local, across a wider range of innovation.
- Dilbert wonders: Be more like a start-up?
- Fmr portfolio company Matrix Medical adds 150 jobs to Tampa region
- Accel Facebook Bet Poised to Become Biggest Venture Profit
- Prof Stevenson still right: Entrepreneurship = pursuit of opportunity w/o regard to resources currently controlled.
- He’s seldom dull. Mark Cuban’s 12 Rules for Startups
- Should Startups Focus on Profitability or Not?
- Drew Graham &Tower Cloud CEO Ron Mudry featured on pg1 of Tampa Bay Business Journal – discussing Florida Growth Fund
- Some venture funds hit “pause” on big deals. Need valuation discipline and non-IPO exits.
- Buyout firms evolving. Great cartoon, but other types of PE doing just fine, tyvm.
- New book: “Stealth of Nations: The Global Rise of the Informal Economy” Entrepreneurs in black&gray markets = 2nd largest GDP on the globe