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Dave Bayless writes:

Last week, I interviewed Mark Solon of Highway 12 Ventures.  I was struck by how conscious Mark is of his firm's role in building bridges among the nascent entrepreneurial technology community in Boise, Idaho, the Intermountain West region, and the rest of the country.  The bridges are grounded in an understanding of (a) the lifestyle that attracts and holds area entrepreneurs and (b) the challenges growing companies face in the region...

You'll have to click through for his bulletpoints. To me, it raises the question of who's doing the same thing in Northeast Ohio [notice I'm not saying Cleveland here]? For that matter, who's connecting Cleveland to Northeast Ohio to the freakin' STATE of Ohio to the rest of the country?! Next question: who are they/aren't they working with and why? The language Dave uses reminds me of the way the Charleston Digital Cooridor describes their mission as being a passageway from the old economy to one built on knowledge-based firms.