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Archive | January, 2010

Minnov8 Gang 64: “Less Talk, More Walk”

23. January 2010

In a post yesterday entitled, “Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk“, tech recruiter Paul DeBettignies (MNHeadhunter) wrote a rant about what’s wrong and right about efforts within Minnesota to connect us all. With over 30 tweets and 50 comments since last night — most of which had strong opinions [...]

Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk

22. January 2010

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“I wonder what the conversations will be like a year from now.” This is a paraphrase of a statement Doug Pollei made at the recent MinneBar hosted by Best Buy, which he said to me at the end of a startup session led by Luke Francl. I heard some folks say how they look forward [...]

Stratasys Inks Deal with HP

21. January 2010

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As a longtime fan of science fiction I have always had a fascination with future technology speculation and why I (and most fans) enjoyed Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was on that show that the replicator (first used on the original 1960′s series) began to deliver much more than food and drink: it could create any [...]

Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

17. January 2010

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Just as we headed into the weekend, day before yesterday, the anticipated news broke that formally identified the Minnesota firm that’s funding local ecommerce technology startup Alvenda. I had been picking up rumblings of hiring in the suite of offices at 12th and Marquette that Alvenda shares with two other tech firms. I guess we [...]

Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing

17. January 2010

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Talk about cloud computing is on the lips of people from startups to enterprise to the government, and Minnesota has a world-class thought leader right here in our midst. The Minnov8 Gang chatted with George Reese about his perspectives, books, upcoming events, and what he thinks about software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and how API’s fit in to this [...]

Dave Does Digital: A Morning Show and Social Media

13. January 2010

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How a Twin Cities morning mainstay, The Dave Ryan Show, is using social media. I admit it, I listen to commercial radio quite a bit…yes, even Top 40. I know this is hard for many to admit. There is this pressure that if you don’t listen to NPR all the time you’re some how less [...]

Activ8: Event Management for Small Business

11. January 2010

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Activ8 is a new Twin Cities-based event/class registration service targeted to the small business’ that has a limited (or no) no web presence but those who offer services in the areas of dance, karate, gymnastics, or fitness studios are perfect potential users as are individual instructors in fitness, music, yoga, or tutoring. One of the great things about [...]

Your Customers are Watching You

4. January 2010

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While many internet and web technology sites and blogs have published their 2010 predictions (including Minnov8), this post serves as a warning and a wake-up call to Minnesota companies that the power you once held — not just in communication, marketing and public relations surrounding your products, services and company — but that power is [...]

Minnov8 Gang 62: Our 2010 Predictions

2. January 2010

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Predicting 2010 technology is always a crapshoot, but there are enough clear trends that we weigh in with our predictions for this upcoming year and cover these key categories: Mobile; the Apple tablet; Curation of content/self publishing; Cloud computing; and some wildass predictions about Minnesota tech in 2010. This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim [...]

Archive | January, 2010

Minnov8 Gang 64: “Less Talk, More Walk”

Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk

Stratasys Inks Deal with HP

Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing

Dave Does Digital: A Morning Show and Social Media

Activ8: Event Management for Small Business

Your Customers are Watching You

Minnov8 Gang 62: Our 2010 Predictions

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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