Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? I find myself thinking about the concept of “getting there” all the time when I consider Arkansas’s steady journey toward creating a healthy tech-venture ecosystem.

Time for some basic capital budgeting math. What conclusion does any wise techpreneur come to when the payback period for a home solar system capital purchase is 20-plus years and the expected useful system life is 10 to 12??

With the understanding this highly creative period won’t last forever, Techpreneur’s need to seize the moment. Some structure and a process of idea validation have to be used or else all of that creative thrust never finds a useful vector…

Incredible. That best describes the results from this year’s Donald W. Reynolds TriState Business Plan Competition in Las Vegas.