The Gang talks about Instagram, Best Buy, Kodak and other top stories and then has a great conversation with Kim Garretson, a founding partner of Ovative/Group and the leader of their Emerging Innovation practice area. Since Garretson connects venture capital firms and their portfolio companies with enterprise customers — and is always on the hunt for better and more powerful tools — he enlightens us about some disruptive innovations he’s tracking (and with companies they’ve partnered with) and you’ll want to hear about them too.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Merry Christmas Baby by Calvin Owens brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
Discussed during the show…
- Social Media Breakfast MSP #52 Panel
- VC: New group to fund up to 10 Twin Cities startups a year
- Best Buy Deathwatch:
- Kodak Agrees To Sell Digital Imaging Patent Portfolio For $525M
- Instagram:
- ThisWeekIn: Jason Calacanis Says He Will Shut Down Podcast Network
- Forrester: 84% Of U.S. Adults Now Use The Web Daily…
- Kim Garretson’s links:
- Gartner: 2013: The Year Ahead in Digital Commerce
Upcoming Events…
- Saturday, January 5th: DaVinci Fest, Stillwater High School
- Monday, January 21st: MinneAnalytics BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
- More breakout speakers sought – contact Dan Atkins: dan(at)dananalytics(dot)net
- Friday, December 21st: SMBMSP #52, Jumping Tracks – Tales of Radical Career Shifts
- Monday, January 21, BigDataMN: Minnesota’s Field Guide to Analytics
- Sat/Sun March 2-3: Midwest PHP Conference
- Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
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Oscar Barnes is the MiniMicrosoft of “The Box”
So I’ve scratched my head over your comment, Randy, about what “MiniMicrosoft of “The Box”” means. Can you enlighten me?
Microsoft has an employee that posts about internal politics, maneuverings, and things anonymously just like Oscar at BBY. He goes by Mini Microsoft.