"...naturally meet one another in coffee shops, gyms, restaurants, parks, bars, and on sidewalks, to strike up conversations that share commercial information."

Does the quote describe the intersection of Main and Wheeler? goo.gl/maps/n8P3BgAFK…

Economist: "What happens when you take startups and relocate them to an area that is distant from where Houston startups currently are... is that you end up diluting Houston’s current agglomeration economies" Policymaker: "It's ideally located" houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

Economist: "...[the area] presumably does not contain all of the characteristics that we would like because it’s been a [startup] vacuum" Policymaker: "It's ideally located" houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/…

Thought yesterday was the dead cat bounce. But no, it must have been a ledge on the way down... #iwantmymoneyback

Cable is still falling...

US is in deep before the #coronavirus

The cat now looks to be on the pavement... #BoJo kills #cable.

Cable rises after #BoJo admitted to hospital. Markets reweighing #Brexit without him?

2020 was a record-breaking year for venture investment and the first to beat 2000 adjusting for inflation, even excluding billion-dollar rounds into Rivian, Waymo, SpaceX, and Epic Games Store. edegan.com/journal/u-s-st…

The percentage of U.S. VC invested in the top 10 startup cities dropped back below 50% in 2020, even without the billion-dollar deal into Epic Games Store in Cary, North Carolina. This might be something good to come out of the #COVID19 pandemc.

Houston, Texas, is still climbing in the startup rankings... though its progress slowed relative to its peak deal flow in 2018. Good luck to John (JR) Reale 🇺🇸 and others who are mentioned in the Top 200 Startup Cities for 2020. edegan.com/journal/u-s-st…

Vermont is ranked 40th among U.S. states for startups: edegan.com/journal/u-s-st… The Green Mountain State is in the ebb part of its ebb-and-flow at the bottom end of the startup rankings, as deal flow outside of Burlington drops to zero.

The Top 200 Startup Cities for 2020 is released today! edegan.com/journal/u-s-st…

#burlingtonvt has its second-best year of all time in the Top 200 Startup Cities Ranking at 144th! #vermont takes 40th place among U.S. states. VTDigger BurlingtonFreePress @mynbc5 Channel 3 News Burlington, Vermont ABC22 & FOX44 edegan.com/journal/u-s-st…

#houstontx takes 22nd place, its best ranking since 2002, in the Top 200 Startup Cities for 2020: edegan.com/journal/u-s-st… Houston Chronicle Houston Business Journal Houston Matters

My paper "A framework for assessing municipal high-growth high-technology entrepreneurship policy" was published in Research Policy today.

Read about "municipal high-growth high-tech entrepreneurship policy... illustrated in 26 real-world policy examples, which assess initiatives in Houston and St. Louis over the last 20 years." Free for 50 days! authors.elsevier.com/a/1d8SaB5ASINVf

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