Archive | April, 2011

Minnov8 Gang 121 – Starting the Startup

29. April 2011

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Without question startups need world-class legal counsel. From choosing what kind of legal entity to use (e.g., S-corp; LLC; LLP) to funding with private equity or debt while also protecting the intellectual property value of the business, it’s always a challenge to find legal representation with a combination of tech-savvy, cutting-edge awareness and trust. New [...]

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George Reese on “The Cloud’s Shining Moment,” Four Days Later

25. April 2011

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(Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the writer’s personal blog, Tech~Surf~Blog.) The major Amazon Web Services outage that began this past Thursday morning was unlike anything before it.  Countless AWS customers, big and small, went down, many for days. Surprisingly, other biggies like Netflix, SmugMug, and Twilio had little or no disruption.  One [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 120 – Is the Cloud our Idol?

22. April 2011

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Now that Amazon’s cloud computing infrastructure had a catastrophic failure this week and Apple was revealed to be storing location data on iPhones and iPads (see: Apple collecting, sharing iPhone users’ precise locations and our Sen Al Franken asking Steve Jobs what’s up), how can we bet our businesses on the cloud and trust that [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 119 – A Chat with MAK

14. April 2011

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The Minnesota High Tech Association (MHTA) Spring Conference was quite a success and the Gang was pleased to have a chance to sit down and chat with the association’s new president and CEO, Margaret Anderson Kelliher (@MAKMinnesota). Ms. Anderson Kelliher brings tremendous political and personal connections to the job, but the role of technology leadership [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 118 – The Cloud gets Sainthood

8. April 2011

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Watching the tech headlines each week continually points to an accelerating trend: the ‘cloud’ is delivering an ever-increasing set of applications and services. Add to that an explosion in mobile devices and a continuing growth in mobile wireless (and Wifi) bandwidth, and you have a perfect storm of technologies and enablers driving innovation. This week [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 117 – Journalism’s Troubles

1. April 2011

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You probably pay attention to the news but where does yours come from? Is it packaged up in newsprint whose ink rubs off on your springtime khaki slacks, or do you get all of yours online?  Are you willing to pay for news and information or are you already paying? It probably comes as no [...]

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