SOPA is not an Italian soap, as joked about on the Gang podcast. But we discuss the protests that caused the Stop Online Privacy Act (and its Senate sister act called PIPA or Protect IP Act) to be, as the Mafia always stated about someone who was killed and dumped in the river, “sleeping with the fishes” and we talk about what happened.
Besides all of the catching up we did our guest, Patrick E. Donohue from DealPen, is on to talk about their initiatives to work with startups on funding, knowledge and a host of other value propositions.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Clear Blue 22 & the song “Through With You” from the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show:
- Minneapolis software firm gets $52.5M in venture capital
- Apple announces free iBooks Author OS X app for publishing books to the App Store
- Too Many Don’t “Get” iBooks Author
- Apple’s New Math. Or: Why a $15 E-Book Equals a $75 Paper Book
- Not a Kodak Moment: Legendary Camera Maker Files for Bankruptcy Protection and How Kodak Failed
- DreamHost Hacked, Password Changes Made Mandatory
- DealPen’s INVESTyR
- The Ihnatko Almanac #16: Some Assembly Required
- Best Buy Announces Leadership Changes
- CarrierIQ Lawsuit by Twin Cities Man
- Successful ebook author Amanda Hocking
Upcoming Events:
- Thursday, January 26th: WordPressMSP, at The Nerdery in Bloomington.
- Thursday, January 26th: MnSearch Presents: Tools of the Trade for SEO with Raven Tools
- Thursday, January 26th/February 23rd: How to Leverage Digital Media to Raise Capital (a DealPen event at CoCo. Promo code for free ticket: dealpenfriend)
- Friday, January 27th: Social Media Breakfast, Mpls/St. Paul (SMBMSP)–Public Media
- Friday/Saturday, March 16th & 17th: Mobile March TC. Call for speakers.
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Sun, Jan 22, 2012
Minnov8 Gang Podcast
by Steve Borsch