A Minnesota Startup Returns from Silicon Valley, Wiser and Richer

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Well, let's say nicely funded, anyway -- a fully subscribed seed round that fulfills their near-term capital needs. I wanted to write a post to report the latest update on this amazing Minnesota tech startup: Kidblog. You've seen me write about these guys before:  earlier … [Read more...]

Minnesota: A Great Place to Be for SaaS Companies

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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 … [Read more...]

Magnet 360 Acquires Reside, Rebrands as ‘Social Enterprise Agency’

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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 … [Read more...]

enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment

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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 … [Read more...]

Cloud Providers Spread Their Reach Across Minnesota

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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 … [Read more...]

#Minnedemo Turns Up the Heat in Downtown Minneapolis

Several hundred tech lovers crammed into Schulze Hall at the University of St. Thomas last night and challenged the air conditioning on another day of near-record highs in the state, for the latest edition of the quasi-quarterly Minnedemo event.  Luckily, there was plenty … [Read more...]

Scalable B2B Platform through Rocware

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The Minnesota-based SaaS company Rocware has recently released an enhanced B2B platform offering, which allows businesses to create, connect, and intuitively maintain their expansive online product catalogs. This platform allows businesses to seamlessly connect to existing … [Read more...]

Workface Lands $900k in Venture Capital

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We were delighted to see that friend of Minnov8, Lief Larson and crew, have landed $900k to accelerate their vision of delivering a platform to maximize sales force and customer service engagement for organizations. The Gang has used Workface' profiles since the beginning … [Read more...]

Minnesota Cup Honors ‘High Quality’ Crop of Semifinalists

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I stopped into a reception held last evening at the U of M's Carlson School for this year's group of semifinalists in the annual Minnesota Cup.  It's the seventh year of this business plan competition, which has gained broad support from our business community.  I had a … [Read more...]

George Reese on “The Cloud’s Shining Moment,” Four Days Later

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(Note: This post first appeared earlier today on the writer's personal blog, Tech~Surf~Blog.) The major Amazon Web Services outage that began this past Thursday morning was unlike anything before it.  Countless AWS customers, big and small, went down, many for days. … [Read more...]