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Archive | April, 2010

Angel-backed Startups 30-50% More Likely To Be Successful

27. April 2010

A landmark study was just released by two professors, one from Harvard Business School and the other MIT, which reveals that, for the most part, angel-backed companies enjoy performance gains of 30-50% when compared to other non-funded startups. From the executive summary: What difference do angel investors make for the success and growth of new ventures? [...]

University of Minnesota Participates in Google Books Project

26. April 2010

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A recent news release from the University of Minnesota announced that they have sent their first shipment of books over to Google to participate in the Google Books project. The University of Minnesota is the first school in the state to participate in this program. The initiative will take approximately two years to complete. The [...]

Minnesota’s MOJO

22. April 2010

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Minnesota’s innovators require many resources to be successful and a new entity, MOJO Minnesota, has been formed to thwart what the founders see as “an innovation crisis in Minnesota” and since “entrepreneurial advances and business revolutions thrive in a culture and community of risk and innovation.” The catalysts for MOJO Minnesota read like a “Who’s [...]

Workface Presents at AlwaysOn

22. April 2010

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For more than two years, Minnov8 has monitored the progress of Workface and founder/CEO Lief Larson. Especially the continued evolution of BusinessCard2, a technology which you can see a part of if you click on the tab on the right side of your browser. Besides being a good guy and friend of Minnov8, Lief is [...]

Minnov8 Gang 76 at the Minnesota “High Tech” Association

22. April 2010

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The Gang is joined by Rick Mahn, founder of the Social Media Breakfast Minneapolis/St. Paul, for an end-of-the-day podcast at the Minnesota High Tech Association Spring Conference. We talk about the missing “high tech” (e.g., Wifi) at the event and its impact on our ability to publish to this liveblog and other general impressions about [...]

MHTA 2010 Spring Conference & Minnov8 Liveblog

21. April 2010

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Tomorrow is the Minnesota High Tech Association’s 2010 Spring Conference and the Minnov8 Gang will be liveblogging here. Check us out throughout the day and watch for the hashtag #MHTA10 as you search Twitter. MHTA positions the conference this way: As we enter the second decade of the 21st Century it is time to examine [...]

Minnov8 Gang 75: Is “Free as in Beer” Over?

17. April 2010

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We catch up on last week’s big happenings, have on a guest and talk about the premature talk of the death of the “Free as in Beer” or “freemium” model. Joining us for our guest segment is Gary Doan, a Minnesota serial entrepreneur who recently joined the Australian email provider, Atmail, as its Vice President [...]

Newsbytes for Friday, April 16, 2010

16. April 2010

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Here are a few items from around the ‘net of interest to Minnov8 readers: Ars Technica has this post, “Welcome to Mound, MN: home of the $249.99 DSL broadband plan“ about Frontier Communications placing a $249.99 price on their DSL service for a “handful of subscribers in Mound, MN” who are “simply excessive residential users” of [...]

DoApp Signs L.A. Newspaper Group to Mobile Local News Publishing Platform

13. April 2010

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DoApp Inc., the Rochester-based mobile development company behind such apps as WCCO for iPhone, Mobile Local News, iKenex for Real Estate, Adagogo mobile advertising, and mRemedy, a partnership between The Mayo Clinic and DoApp, just nnounced their Mobile Local News publishing platform has signed the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG). LANG properties include: Los Angeles [...]

MinneWebCon 2010 Liveblogging

11. April 2010

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The Minnov8 Gang will be liveblogging the MinneWebCon event tomorrow all day. With 290 people registered and some awesome keynoters in place, this will be another outstanding event. Please stop by this liveblogging page and watch the real-time updates. You can also email us if you have comments or suggestions.

Archive | April, 2010

Angel-backed Startups 30-50% More Likely To Be Successful

University of Minnesota Participates in Google Books Project

Minnesota’s MOJO

Workface Presents at AlwaysOn

Minnov8 Gang 76 at the Minnesota “High Tech” Association

MHTA 2010 Spring Conference & Minnov8 Liveblog

Minnov8 Gang 75: Is “Free as in Beer” Over?

Newsbytes for Friday, April 16, 2010

DoApp Signs L.A. Newspaper Group to Mobile Local News Publishing Platform

MinneWebCon 2010 Liveblogging

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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