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Why Now? MN Legislature Passes Bill w/Angel Investment Tax Credit

After many years of lip service to angel investment tax credits, the House voted 112-20 to approve a package of tax credits designed to stimulate job growth in Minnesota with a subsequent 58-3 approval by the Senate shortly thereafter and it now goes to Gov. Tim Pawlenty for signature. Sponsored by Rep. Ann Lenczewski (DFL-Bloomington) and [...]

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Mobile Technologies & Markets Explored at a New Event: MobileMarchTC

Talk to strategists, financial analysts, venture capitalists and most internet or web startups and you’ll hear one word mentioned over and over again: mobile. It’s on everyone’s mind due to the sheer numbers of us globally who are walking around with computers in our pockets, the speed increases occurring in the mobile networks we use, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 72: Mobile March Twin Cities

The Mobile March Twin Cities event was nothing short of excellent. In this podcast one of the organizers, Minnov8′s own Phil Wilson, are joined by Biz Borsch (@bizborsch) and Lisa Grimm (@lulugrimm) to discuss some of the highlights and issues brought forth today. For more highlights and information, please see the MobileMarchTC website as links, [...]

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Mobile March Twin Cities Live Tweets

Minnov8 is at the Mobile March Twin Cities event downtown Minneapolis. Here are live tweets from it: if (WIDGETBOX) WIDGETBOX.renderWidget('e7938b70-a458-4930-8f2a-262824095ba4');Get the Tweet Blender widget and many other great free widgets at Widgetbox! Not seeing a widget? (More info)

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MinneWebCon: An interview with its director, Kris Layon

What most of don’t get to do before making a decision to attend an event that costs money is to understand the vision, depth and texture that lies behind a conference. Knowing this helps to determine the level of the sessions, their quality and whether it’s worth your investment of both time and money. MinneWebCon, [...]

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MinneSpark Has $1,000 (Potentially) For You

What could you do with $1,000 for your best idea? Could you turn it into a scalable business? Let’s find out! MinneSpark will award 1 to n grants of $1,000 to Minnesota-based teams who demonstrate to their trustees the ability to take that money and turn it into something real. This is about doing more with [...]

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MinneWebCon: Less Than 3 Weeks Away

MinneWebCon 2010 (web • twitter • facebook) is less than three weeks away! Join Minnov8 (we’re the media group covering the event) and hundreds of your fellow netizens at this fantastic get-together focused on next generation internet, web and social media creation and delivery. Here’s the latest from MinneWebCon Director, Kris Layon, about the region’s [...]

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24 Hours, a New Site and Real Fun.

Some 36 hours after the conclusion of the event and after about 11 hours of sleep I am still amazed by the experience that is the Overnight Website Challenge. In case you missed it, I joined fellow Minnov8er Tim Elliott’s Team, dubbed Full Court Press as a bond to the WordPress platform we used, for [...]

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TDS Acquires VISI

Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., parent company to TDS Telecommunications Corp. (TDS®) today announced it has acquired VISI Incorporated (VISI), Minnesota’s largest locally-owned data center services and managed hosting provider.  TDS, headquartered in Madison, Wis. will have oversight and management responsibility for the acquisition. Read the press release here.

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One Librarian’s Trip to SXSWi

I have procrastinated writing about my South by Southwest- Interactive experience for six days. I was still procrastinating about an hour ago, when vacuuming my fiance’s apartment. Catch that? I was vacuuming rather than sit here and process my experience at an amazing event. I think my reticence stems from a desire to compare SXSW-i [...]

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