Archive | August, 2010

Risks for Investors and Entrepreneurs

31. August 2010

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A local Minnesota serial entrepreneur, Philip Hotchkiss, gave me a heads-up on this post from a a serial entrepreneur turned VC, Mark Suster. After reading it I was compelled to post about it here on Minnov8 and strongly encourage you to read it. Though I’m a glass-is-more-than-half-full kind of guy and am constantly seeking out silver [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 91: A Startup on FiRe

27. August 2010

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Our Startup Spotlight guest this week is Matthew Foust from Audiofile Engineering in Minneapolis. Matt is the co-founder & grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and began playing music at age 8. Not long after, his family purchased one of the first 10,000 Macintosh computers ever produced and began his journey into technology. While attending [...]

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Startup Succession Planning

27. August 2010

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A survey of over 140 North American CEOs revealed that nearly half of their companies do not have a succession plan: While 69% of respondents think that a CEO successor needs to be “ready now” to step into the shoes of the departing CEO, only 54% are grooming an executive for this position. Part of [...]

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Startups Aren’t Everything…They’re the ONLY Thing

24. August 2010

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On my continuing quest to discover new sources of data and insight about startups, I came across a very interesting read today—and received something from TheDeets’ Ed Kohler—and wanted to share both with you. A new study (PDF) by the Kauffman Foundation paints a very different picture about the importance of startups: When it comes [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 90: Architecting a New Adventure

20. August 2010

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The Gang starts off talking about the net neutrality town hall meeting from Thursday night (Sen. Al Franken kicked it off with FCC Commissioner’s Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn in attendance to hear from the community. Next we have on our main guest, Steve Nielsen, to discuss his next adventure MacroVentures, an investor in early [...]

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Minnesota Cup Announces Finalists

19. August 2010

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This just in from the folks at the Minnesota Cup, a phenomenal event for startup Minnesota: “The Minnesota Cup is a statewide entrepreneurial contest that seeks out and supports Minnesota’s newest and most innovative business ideas, today announced the finalists for the 6th Annual Minnesota Cup competition. Finalists include a company that is developing the [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 89: Foursquare…or Be Square

13. August 2010

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The Gang has on Christopher Lower to talk about Foursquare, the fastest growing social media tool of its kind (and we briefly touch on his upcoming book) and then we dial up Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome to talk about his new adventure, MobileVidHub. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music: [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 88: Google Waves Goodbye

6. August 2010

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The Gang has Julio Ojeda Zapata on this week to talk about a bunch of stuff…including Google’s killing of Google Wave. Julio is the Pioneer Press’ consumer-tech reporter and writes a Tech Test Drive column about gadgets, apps and social media (among other things). He is the author of Twitter Means Business, one of the first books about [...]

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Accelerating Change

4. August 2010

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Every day I scan hundreds of blog posts, articles and tweets having to do with technology. Included in that scanning is a 4-5 times per day viewing of Techmeme, the technology ‘conversation tracker’ that connects key articles and posts with those who’ve linked to it, enabling you and I to see what the hot stories [...]

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