Showcasing Minnesota Technology Innovation
Good story at MinnPost by Scott Litman, co-founder and Managing Partner of Magnet 360 (@scottmagnet) and co-founder of Minnesota Cup, and John Stavig, Director of the Gary S. Holmes Center for Entrepreneurship, Carlson School of Management (@gooddrjds). Minnesota has … [Read more...]
You will be hearing A LOT about "The Internet of Things" or "The Internet of Everything" or "Industrial Internet" this year and next. But it was this month's Wired magazine who devoted the issue's cover story to "Welcome to the Programmable World." It starts off with a focus … [Read more...]
The ninth annual Minnesota Cup competition - the largest statewide new venture competition in the country - will close its application window on May 17 at 11:59 p.m. Entrepreneurs, inventors and small businesses have two weeks to enter their breakthrough business ideas on … [Read more...]
Minneapolis-based Spark Devices today launched a new project on Kickstarter in a major reboot of the company. The new Kickstarter comes as the cofounders are about to complete an accelerator program in China called HAXLR8R ("hack-celerator" - get it?). It's described as "a … [Read more...]
A whole bunch of busy tech professionals dropped everything on Thursday and headed to the farm -- the Earle Brown Farm, that is (now called Earle Brown Heritage Center -- a very cool place). Okay, it wasn't all that far out of town, only Brooklyn Center, but it was like a … [Read more...]
Some pretty amazing tech entrepreneurs come out of Minnesota. I can attest, as I've worked with way more than one hundred of them, and written about my fair share. Colin Karpfinger is an excellent example, one whose story inspired me to want to tell more people about … [Read more...]
News broke today about the founding of a new venture capital firm composed mainly of Minnesota names, including partners from a VC firm with a name familiar to many here in Minnesota that is now being retired. Four Minnesotans, plus a transplanted one, form the core of the … [Read more...]
Last evening about two dozen people showed up at the SmartThings office. It was the first rollout of 'kits' we'd pre-ordered through their Kickstarter funding adventure and I was pleased to have been chosen to attend and get my kit, even though I'm not a developer. A … [Read more...]
(Note: This post originally appeared yesterday on my personal blog, Graeme Thickins on Tech.™ I've added a couple of updates where noted.) Google and CoCo are cohosting a day-long event today on entrepreneurship and innovation at the former Grain Exchange in … [Read more...]
Big news today from our friends at CoCoMSP. The very successful, high-profile coworking venue announced today it will partner with Google to "boost entrepreneurship in Minnesota." Specifically, CoCo has agreed to work with the "Google for Entrepreneurs" program to host … [Read more...]
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