Chances are one of the last things most Techpreneurs think about is “who will replace me if I get hit by a truck, struck by lightning, eaten by a shark, abducted by aliens, or just freak out and decide to pursue enlightenment in Tibet?”

The ingredients for Arkansas to be a worldwide center of excellence in renewable energy technology are right here before us, right here in our backyard.

Twit, tweet, re-tweet….even the jargon sounds suspect to a basic blocking and tackling, gray-beard Techpreneur…but didn’t we just hear last week that Tweeter raised $100 million in private equity against a $1 billion valuation even though they have almost no revenue?

There must be something in the water out west. Innovation seems to be dripping out of Colorado these days. The big square cranked out 1,848 patents last year. That’s good for 11th nationally, and even a little more impressive when you consider Colorado’s population stands at about 4.9 million, good for 22nd. Arkansas’ 2.8 million [...]