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Welcome a New Author: Kurt Roots

14. August 2011

Help me in welcoming a new Minnov8 author: Kurt Roots. Kurt started his first company, which was devoted to web analytics, in high school at the age of sixteen. He went on to college and then graduate school where he did research in machine learning and data mining along with completing an MBA. After spending [...]

On Minnov8′s Radar…

29. April 2009

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Several items hit the radar today worthy of posting and a few from discussion at this morning’s enjoyable and informative Social Media Breakfast: Brandweek had an interesting article about an initiative at General Mills called MyBlogSpark (from @garykoelling): Bloggers, particularly moms, are an audience of such growing importance to General Mills that the consumer-goods company [...]

Minnov8′s Phil Wilson Heads to SXSW

14. March 2009

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The Minnov8 Gang has been moving in a lot of different directions of late and we’re adding more video to the mix. Phil Wilson, going to the South by Southwest (SXSW) gathering in Austin, TX on behalf of his startup LocaltoneRadio, gives our update about this week’s Minnov8 Gang Podcast. Stay tuned…

Emerging Minnesota Software and Internet Technologies to Take the Stage on February 6

2. February 2009

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Entrepreneurs, software developers, and computer professionals of all stripes will be rubbing shoulders again this Friday evening with other hopeful company founders, VCs, angel investors, bloggers, and media people from throughout the Twin Cities and other parts of the Upper Midwest. They’ll be gathering for what’s become a not-to-be-missed quarterly geek-fest called Minnedemo. Billed as “the [...]

Minnesota Microblogging

20. October 2008

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Every day there seems to be an uptick in the number of people who are online and interested in connecting with friends, family, colleagues or others where even a digital relationship might end up as meaningful. The continued growth of social networks is the strongest indicator of that trend, but the explosion of microblogging is [...]

MIMA Summit Packs The Depot

3. October 2008

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As practically every man, woman, and child in the Twin Cities must know by now, the Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) held its annual conference Wednesday, themed “Feed“. These folks are marketers — they know how to hype, as they’ve been telling us for what seems weeks now that the event was sold out. Prior to [...]

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 3

23. August 2008

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Garrick Van Buren, Phil Wilson After vacations and business travel this summer, we carve out time on a Saturday morning for another Minnov8 Gang podcast with Episode 3. In it we talk about several Minnesota startups and companies (including our own, with some admittedly self-serving comments!): - PartnerUp [...]

Nabbit Moves Beyond Tagging

15. May 2008

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On May 13th a press release announced the new partnership between Eagan-based Jump Technologies’ Nabbit service and CBS Radio, Minneapolis (102.9 Lite FM, 104.1 Jack FM, 830 WCCO AM). This partnership will further move Nabbit from a relatively simple tagging application into a full blown marketing tool. On that day, the eve of the big [...]

Minnov8 at MinnPost

13. May 2008

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What could be better than to have been approached by the editor and publisher of MinnPost, an organization whose mission is to bring high-quality journalism for news-intense people who care about Minnesota, and asked if Minnov8 would be willing to participate weekly with one of our posts published there? Maybe bags full of $100 bills [...]

Minnesota’s Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle

12. May 2008

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If one had any doubt about the intensity of our state’s information technology and Internet community, one only had to be anywhere inside the U’s Coffman Union on Saturday for the third annual Minnebar “unconference” (part of an international phenomenon called Barcamp). To say the joint was a-jumpin’ simply does not suffice. And numbers alone [...]

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Welcome a New Author: Kurt Roots

On Minnov8′s Radar…

Minnov8′s Phil Wilson Heads to SXSW

Emerging Minnesota Software and Internet Technologies to Take the Stage on February 6

Minnesota Microblogging

MIMA Summit Packs The Depot

Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 3

Nabbit Moves Beyond Tagging

Minnov8 at MinnPost

Minnesota’s Internet Tech Crowd Flexes Its Muscle

Minnov8 Gang Podcast

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