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 generate [...]

CNBC has released its annual ranking of states in terms of their business environment, and Arkansas comes in at No. 31.
The ranking considers cost of doing business, work force, quality of life, technology and innovation, access to capital, cost of living, transportation and infrastructure, and business friendliness.
Visitors to this web site must surely be shocked [...]