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Archive | June, 2008

Thirty Semifinalists Named in ‘Minnesota Cup’ Business Plan Competition

29. June 2008

I attended and Twittered a bit at a reception Wednesday evening, June 25, at the grand, old James J. Hill Library in downtown St. Paul. (You remember old J.J., don’t you, the Bill Gates of his era?) It was an event to honor the startups who made it to the next round of the Minnesota [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 2

28. June 2008

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson Our second podcast where we discuss: - Qwest laying fiber in Eden Prairie - Jon Gordon of public radio’s Future Tense is coming to Minnesota, asked via Twitter for independent coffee shops with Wifi, and Minnov8′s Garrick Van Buren put up this invite-only Google map so [...]

BlueShirtNation: Success from Risking Failure

27. June 2008

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Connecting thousands of high turnover, twenty-something retail employees into some sort of cohesive and connected online network would seem worthy of senior executive leadership, strategy formation, funding, project managers and endless meetings to ensure that it was aligning with the goals and objectives set forth at the outset. None of that happened with one of [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 1

22. June 2008

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Garrick Van Buren, Phil Wilson Our first podcast where we: - Give a one minute overview of who the heck we are - Discuss Minnesota Cup; Slantly; Cullect - Chat about a variety of tech topics. Our intention with this podcast is to talk about relevant innovations occurring in [...]

Backstage Gallery: Your Ticket to Music Memories

19. June 2008

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Imagine having access to hundreds of thousands of high quality photographs of your favorite musical artists. Glimpses of concerts past. Peeks backstage and views of these musicians as they prepare for, or wind down from, their time on stage. Backstage Gallery is a Minnesota born company that launched last month and is delivering exactly that [...]

Kwingo Launches Mobile Language Apps

16. June 2008

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What do you do when you’re a successful, female, mid-career IT and operations executive with several big-name companies, and you decide to try something different? Why, you launch a mobile web apps company, that’s what! Actually Lisa Foote first took some time to give back by using her executive skills for a year or so [...]

CodeMorphic Is One of the First In Line with iPhone Apps

13. June 2008

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It’s almost the end of the week and, being a site centered on tech and innovation, I believe we have been remiss in not including a picture of a 3G iPhone and a story having something to do with it. Well…when the iPhone AppStore opens in July, Minnesota startup CodeMorphic is all set with native [...]

Innovation Seminar in Bloomington

12. June 2008

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Turning Your Innovations into a Successful Business: Attracting Venture Capital and Business Partners While Protecting Your Innovations. This free seminar will take place on Tuesday, June 17th from 7:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. at the Hotel Sofitel in Bloomington, MN. This year’s sponsors include The Innovators Network and the Minnesota High Tech Association. Andre Carter, [...]

Enleiten: A Social GTD

11. June 2008

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If you have any interest in personal or group productivity, it’s likely that you’ve at least become aware of David Allen’s Getting Things Done (GTD) system. It’s not only taken the corporate world by storm, it’s become the geek method/tool/approach of choice for moving far beyond a simple to-do list. The system has even spawned [...]

Commercial Real Estate Search Made Efficient

11. June 2008

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As the Internet increasingly becomes a platform upon which entrepreneurs and opportunists build disruptive and inefficiency crushing innovative Web applications, organizations like GoFishCommercial will emerge to do exactly that and make the inefficient, efficient. After hearing about the company and taking the time to poke around the site, I had the chance to talk with [...]

Archive | June, 2008

Thirty Semifinalists Named in ‘Minnesota Cup’ Business Plan Competition

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 2

BlueShirtNation: Success from Risking Failure

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 1

Backstage Gallery: Your Ticket to Music Memories

Kwingo Launches Mobile Language Apps

CodeMorphic Is One of the First In Line with iPhone Apps

Innovation Seminar in Bloomington

Enleiten: A Social GTD

Commercial Real Estate Search Made Efficient

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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