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My Smart Business column: For Miami’s tech community, how much stock is in a name?

Miami has long wanted to be counted alongside the burgeoning technology centers of New York, Boston and, probably the most notable of all, Silicon Valley. For South Florida, the effort has been a series of lurches, quick sprints and dead stops, spurred on by a business climate that rewards entrepreneurs.

It is that entrepreneurial spirit that allowed the tech community here to continue to grow despite the South Florida economy suffering disproportionately more than other regions around the country. And it’s that same scrappy, bootstrap mentality that perhaps is holding the region back from realizing its ambitions.

Nowhere is that more apparent than in Miami’s struggle to forge an identity for itself as a technology leader.

This is the second of my monthly column on South Florida for Smart Business magazine. This month, some area social media dignitaries make an appearance, including the Startup Forum's Seth Elliott and my friend Alex De Carvalho.

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