Our Startup Spotlight guest this week is Matthew Foust from Audiofile Engineering in Minneapolis. Matt is the co-founder & grew up in Eau Claire, Wisconsin and began playing music at age 8. Not long after, his family purchased one of the first 10,000 Macintosh computers ever produced and began his journey into technology. While attending [...]
Continue reading...20. August 2010
The Gang starts off talking about the net neutrality town hall meeting from Thursday night (Sen. Al Franken kicked it off with FCC Commissioner’s Michael Copps and Mignon Clyburn in attendance to hear from the community. Next we have on our main guest, Steve Nielsen, to discuss his next adventure MacroVentures, an investor in early [...]
Continue reading...19. August 2010
This just in from the folks at the Minnesota Cup, a phenomenal event for startup Minnesota: “The Minnesota Cup is a statewide entrepreneurial contest that seeks out and supports Minnesota’s newest and most innovative business ideas, today announced the finalists for the 6th Annual Minnesota Cup competition. Finalists include a company that is developing the [...]
Continue reading...13. August 2010
The Gang has on Christopher Lower to talk about Foursquare, the fastest growing social media tool of its kind (and we briefly touch on his upcoming book) and then we dial up Justin Grammens of Recursive Awesome to talk about his new adventure, MobileVidHub. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson. Music: [...]
Continue reading...6. August 2010
The Gang has Julio Ojeda Zapata on this week to talk about a bunch of stuff…including Google’s killing of Google Wave. Julio is the Pioneer Press’ consumer-tech reporter and writes a Tech Test Drive column about gadgets, apps and social media (among other things). He is the author of Twitter Means Business, one of the first books about [...]
Continue reading...31. July 2010
Though the Gang discusses several topics this week (in the midst of the typical summer doldrums for new releases) the buzz covered is mostly about mobile. There are some interesting strategic moves being made by Best Buy with Clearwire—coming to the Twin Cities this Fall—as well as updates to Android mobile with Froyo and more. [...]
Continue reading...23. July 2010
Friday found the Gang at the Social Media Breakfast/Minneapolis & St. Paul (SMBMSP) for a fabulous panel on small business and social media. It was led by Jason DeRusha (who is employed doing something at WCCO-TV & is at @DeRushaJ) with panelists Julie Warner of WarnersStellian (@WarnersStellian); Aimee Pelletier of DarnKnitAnyway (@darnknitanyway); Naomi Williamson of [...]
Continue reading...17. July 2010
After yesterday’s post, “Is Perception the Reality with MN Venture Funding?” we received a lot of email and some comments about the state of angel and venture investing in Minnesota. There is a lot of buzz amongst startups (and wannabees) who feel like this State is risk averse and a place where angels and VCs [...]
Continue reading...10. July 2010
This week’s show theme surrounds seeing opportunities for innovation. We explore many of the events, conferences, and moves made in web and internet technology and also dwell on all the collective energy being expended in Minnesota (e.g., MHTA; MNCup; MOJO MN; Minnedemo/Minnebar; Minnov8; tech.mn). driving toward one thing: sparking innovation in Minnesota. Is it working? What [...]
Continue reading...1. July 2010
Yesterday (June 30th) marked the first ever Social Media Day. By no means was this a national “bank” holiday, nor a holiday proclaimed by the recognized official holiday creator…Hallmark. No, this was a day proclaimed by perhaps the purveyor of social media news, Mashable. What pray tell is the purpose of Social Media Day? The [...]
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27. August 2010
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