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MOJO Minnesota is an innovation advocacy force comprised of like-minded business leaders working to fuel entrepreneurship and reignite Minnesota’s culture of innovation. These folks describe themselves as, “…business advisors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and attorneys passionate about creating jobs and economic growth through the power of Minnesota based technology companies” and we were pleased to have two of them on this week’s podcast: Ernest Grumbles, a “strategic IP” attorney and advisor to startups and entrepreneurs at Adams Monahan, LLP and Mary Meehan, renowned futurist and trend forecaster with her firm, Panoramix Global.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: “The Favourite” by Dig via the podsafe Music Alley.

Discussed during the show:

• Tekne Awards-Finalists
• About Windows 8; Windows 8 Gets Sad New Blue Screen of Death
• Laptop, Tablet Differences May Fade, Intel Says (WSJ Digits Blog)
• DEMO Conference
• Graeme’s live-blog of DEMO Fall 2011; All Graeme’s posts tagged DEMO Fall 2011
• Video of onstage pitch at DEMO of Minneapolis startup Me&MyMoney
• The DEMO People’s Choice Award winner (and one of five DEMO God winners): Aurasma
• Interview with Ernest Grumbles on patents.

Upcoming Events:

• Tuesday, Sept 20th: Mobile Twin Cities
• Thursday, Sept 22nd: WordPressMSP
• Saturday, Sept 24th: She’s Geeky Unconference
• Minnedemo – Tentatively scheduled the first week of October
• Tuesday, Oct 11th & 12th: MIMA Summit