Wufoo.com (Ycombinator graduate): Note: This is a great example of a company that easily could have stayed in Silicon Valley but chose to come back to Tampa. I think their customer list is one that would make any company envious: http://wufoo.com/clients/

SiteWit.com (just launched Feb 2010): http://blog.sitewit.com/
Note: Think of them like Google Analytics on steroids with quality scoring engine, predictive analytics, revenue attribution engine, campaign management and optimization, and SEO ranking engine integrated with data warehousing, machine learning and data mining to optimize online traffic and paid search campaigns.

Jibidee.com (covered by Tech Crunch)

Enthusem.com (covered by DEMO)

Rentacoder.com (covered by Inc. Magazine)
Note: Actually, Rentacoder has been honored in the “5000 Fastest Growing Companies” list for the past three years in a row: 2007, 2008 and 2009.

PeepNote.com (2009 RailsRumble “top 10” finisher)
Note: RailsRumble is a world-wide competition where developers submit websites built in a 48-hour window. While most teams represent the usual suspects of hometowns (CA, TX, MA, etc.), not one but two of the top 10 finishing teams were from Tampa Bay (Omnominator being the other).

Domuswap.com (covered by Money Magazine, WSJ, The New York Times)
Note: Yes, that is correct. Two of the Tampa Bay WaVE member companies were covered by the Wall Street Journal.

OnlineHouseTrading.com (covered by The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, NBC’s Today Show, CBS, Good Morning America, etc.)

Not to mention several of our WaVE members and/or member companies who have been selected to present at Florida Venture Forum, StartupRiot, etc.

I also warn of “social media abstinence.” I mean that it’s very risky for businesses to ignore the conversations occurring on the web.

And, I provide many real world examples of small and medium size businesses using social media successfully.

I hope your community benefits from it. I welcome their feedback.
- Bernie
http://twitter.com/berniebay

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