Beet Street plan shows potential, deserves support

Beet Street’s Beth Flowers wasn’t happy with the headline over our story in the last edition of the Business Report, about the organization’s big plans to reinvent itself.

“Losses in incubator’s first years,” it said.

Her complaint? Essentially, that the newsroom was stating the obvious, that any startup would expect losses in its early years.

She’s right about startups and losses; they go hand-in-hand. But that doesn’t exactly make the fact of upcoming losses any less newsworthy or the headline any less accurate, especially in an organization that historically has relied on taxpayer support. That public support ends at…