By coincidence one afternoon in late September, I found myself on the floor of a conference in Miami, chatting with the executives of TMC. We got on the topic of the Startup Economy, which back then (to me at least) felt like it was on the cusp of coming back to life. It felt that way in the Bay Area, if not yet in other places.
As we looked around the show floor, we remarked that while relatively young companies were represented, we wondered what we could do to better expose and support the very early stage: those companies disrupting in the trenches, those still bootstrapping, those without the benefit of PR budgets to generate the visibility and partner opportunities they needed to get to market faster.
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