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Minnesota: A Great Place to Be for SaaS Companies
I had the pleasure of attending a workshop event held this past Saturday at the awesome CoCo coworking space at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. It was called SaaSCamp 2012. Note the year is part of that title, because it fully intends to be a recurring event. If you’re part of an early-stage software-as-a-service business, or [...]
Continue reading...The War for Talent: Are Minnesota Tech Companies and Startups Ready?
23. April 2012
Question: What do Google, Facebook, Groupon and Amazon have in common? Answer: All have formally or through their employees been recruiting in Minnesota in the past year. There are at least another half dozen well funded Silicon Valley startups doing the same. (hold on… I am waiting for that to sink in for a moment) [...]
Continue reading...Minnebar 2012: Tech Geek-Out Extraordinaire!
8. April 2012
Minnesota’s annual barcamp un-conference, aka Minnebar, returned for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday, April 7, and it was a blockbuster! Held again at Best Buy’s corporate headquarters in Richfield, the event attracted some 1300, the most in its history. It just keeps getting bigger and bigger — and better! A pre-party the night before [...]
Continue reading...Magnet 360 Acquires Reside, Rebrands as ‘Social Enterprise Agency’
4. April 2012
Magnet 360, a Minneapolis-based marketing and technology consultancy, today announced it has acquired Reside, a Minneapolis-based cloud solutions firm, to establish a single entity that will provide a comprehensive set of social business services. The new business will operate under the name Magnet 360, with a Minneapolis headquarters and an office in New York City. [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Cup Entry Starts Today
26. March 2012
The 8th annual Minnesota Cup has officially launched! This is Minnesota’s premiere entrepreneural event and past ones have seen stiff competition in every category since there are so many great startups here in our State. To familiarize yourself with this year’s competition, please find several resources below in the embedded document (we compiled the press [...]
Continue reading...My Experience with the Minnesota R&D Tax Credit
14. February 2012
In 2011, as part of our tax filings for fiscal year 2010, we evaluated the federal and Minnesota R&D Tax Credit. In 2010 the State of Minnesota significantly enhanced the state R&D tax credit, effectively doubling the size of the credit while also providing coverage for more types of businesses, including S corps and LLC’s. [...]
Continue reading...Robert Stephens Rocks the #DefragCon Crowd
13. November 2011
The 5th Annual Defrag Conference was held November 8-10. 2011, in Denver, and I was there once again reporting on all the action during this much heralded meeting of the Internet’s big minds. One of the highlights this time for me was the keynote on the final day by Robert Stephens, CTO of Best Buy [...]
Continue reading...enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment
3. November 2011
An SEC filing reported by MarketBrief has revealed that Minneapolis-based enStratus Networks has raised $3.5 million in venture capital. The total size of the round is $4.5 million, a reliable source told me, but the investor for the additional $1 million has not yet been announced. Founded in 2009, enStratus provides a cloud infrastructure management [...]
Continue reading...Cloud Providers Spread Their Reach Across Minnesota
1. November 2011
And what better place to start than, uh, St. Cloud? Actually, the company I’m about to alert you to, Vaultas, is a data center company that’s based in nearby Alexandria, Minnesota. But it just announced plans to expand into the much larger St. Cloud market, increasing its footprint in Central Minnesota. Vaultas develops, owns, and [...]
Continue reading...Workface Integrates Real-Time Engagement with Facebook
1. November 2011
Our pals at Workface have rolled out yet another great innovation: their chat platform now boasts an integration with Facebook that ensures that your Facebook Page is connected directly with those in your company you want customers and prospects to have access to in an instant. (disclosure: Workface was a client of my Innov8Press group). [...]
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23. April 2012
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