As the holidays wind down and the return to reality begins, we decided to take one last look back at 2012, with a list our website's 15 most-read news and feature stories from the past year.

If you missed these the first time around, now is a great time to catch up, as we head into another great year.

1. Alexis Ohanian meets his Waterloo - and loves it

2. The incurable entrepreneur: Vidyard's Michael Litt

3. What really happened after MappedIn left the Dragons' Den

4. D2L's John Baker: Desire to make a difference

5. Hard work and humility: Miovision's Kurtis McBride

6. 12 hours and a $554M exit: Dave Caputo on Sandvine's birth

7. Communitech launches $30M+ HYPERDRIVE incubator

8. From Forest Heights to Hollywood: Norman Golightly's next act

9. Phil Deck: The fixer looks forward

10. BufferBox and Google: A match made in Waterloo

11. FedDev invests$5.3M in eight area tech firms

12. Top tech stars to lead HYPERDRIVE coaching

13. Tech Top 15: Highlights from a fantastic 2012

14. Ontario Premier: Waterloo Region is "Canada's most important tech cluster"

15. Elevating the e-commerce experience: Well.ca's Ali Asaria