Archive | September, 2010

MIMA Summit Liveblog: “You Are There” Edition

30. September 2010

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Another MIMA Summit is behind us, as well as another day of fleet feet and live blogging by the Minnov8 Gang.   Congratulations to Tim Brunelle, Erin Rauk, Christopher Pollard, Greg Swan and so many others for your incredible efforts. Covering that many great sessions was a challenge and a real treat. Re-live the magic with [...]

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Stealth Startup Inveni Launches Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in SF, and midVenturesLaunch in Chicago

28. September 2010

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Today, Minnetonka-based Inveni LLC is telling the world its newly launched discovery engine “will drive social recommendations in the Web’s next wave.”  The company’s free consumer service will also enable better targeted advertising.  The Inveni discovery engine, says the firm, will change how consumers both make and receive recommendations on the Web. As of today, [...]

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Liveblogging the MIMA Summit

26. September 2010

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The MIMA Summit is a two day event (day one is workshops and day two is the full conference) and the Minnov8 Gang will be liveblogging the event put on by the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA). On Monday we’ll be liveblogging/covering the MIMA pre-conference workshops. On Tuesday (during the full conference day) we’ll be [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 95: Social Media & Family

24. September 2010

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The Gang covers the events of this past week and then launches a call to Albert Maruggi of Provident Partners. Albert was on the panel at the Social Media Club’s “Social Media & Family” event this past week and had some interesting perspectives on its use. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is [...]

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Making Rain in Bloomington

23. September 2010

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Today was the first day of the Rainmaker’s Conference, the 7th Annual event that brings together RAIN Fund members (an angel investment fund), entrepreneurs, investors and sponsors. The intent is networking, education, and exposure to RAIN fund entrepreneurs as well as numerous other startups in order to expose their companies to this key group of [...]

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Social Media Club Focuses On the Family

20. September 2010

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This Wednesday night at the Depot in downtown Minneapolis the Social Media Club of Minnesota (SMC) is presenting a panel discussion entitled Social Media + Family. Though the final list of panel members has yet to be announced, Social Media Club Founder, Chris Heuer will lead a group of  “dads and moms who blog/podcast for [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 94: Microsites with ClickWrite

17. September 2010

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Our guest on this show’s “Startup Spotlight” is Alex Huff, founder of LoudClick (which we profiled here) and now ClickWrite, the latter a, “…microsite platform creating a coordinated network of websites. The network consists of a corporate (brand) website integrated with local or targeted microsites. ClickWrite creates individual, unique microsites – with unique URLs – [...]

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EarthClean Takes the MN Cup!

15. September 2010

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Last night, EarthClean, a Minneapolis-based start-up that makes an environmentally friendly fire retardant, was named “Minnesota’s Top Breakthrough Business Idea” and honored for its innovative business concept. Area business leaders and investors selected EarthClean as the 6th Annual Minnesota Cup winner, awarding it $20,000 as Clean Tech & Renewable Energy Division winner and an additional [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 93: MIMA Summit Success

10. September 2010

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Our guest this week is Tim Brunelle, CEO of the agency HelloViking. Tim is a writer, with 17 year’s experience at agencies such as TBWA/Chiat/Day, McKinney, Ogilvy, Mullen, Heater Easdon and Carmichael Lynch–where he was most recently an Executive Creative Director and the Head of Interactive. He is also the President of the Minnesota Interactive [...]

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Robert Stephens Talks About New Role as CTO of Best Buy

9. September 2010

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Earlier this week, I sat down for coffee with Robert Stephens, founder of Geek Squad, to chat about a number of things, and we decided to do an impromptu audio interview.  I realized later it was almost three years to the day when I’d first met Robert, at an event where he was honored as [...]

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