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A local Minnesota blogger and 22 year old college student, Geoff Dutton (blog; @geoffdunton), reached out to me about a healthcare startup called Koozala and his interest in writing for Minnov8 but I needed to do some investigation first before running the story. Koozala has been put together by an entrepreneur, Ashish Gadnis, who is a [...]
Continue reading...ReliaCloud & enStratus Form Partnership
24. February 2010
Since we’re a sponsor of the upcoming CloudCamp event on March 2nd — and are huge fans of cloud computing and the innovation occurring with companies in this space — we were delighted to get a heads-up on a new partnership in town that will undoubtedly be quite a powerful combination and a great addition [...]
Continue reading...MN Tech Rocks – Last Night Was Proof
6. February 2010
If you weren’t at Minnedemo last night, well, you ain’t…. Seriously, for those few of you players in our Internet/IT community who weren’t there, you missed a damn good one. I tweeted as I left about 10:30 pm (okay, I admit I tweet from my car) that I thought it was the best ever. There [...]
Continue reading...Swarmcast to Lay Off Half the Company
25. January 2010
Minneapolis-based Swarmcast has been in the business video streaming since 2002, but according to Dan Rayburn at BusinessofVideo.com, they’re laying off half the company: Last week, rumors started circulating that Swarmcast was going out of business and had laid off all of their employees. While the company is not out of business yet, they did make [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk
22. January 2010
“I wonder what the conversations will be like a year from now.” This is a paraphrase of a statement Doug Pollei made at the recent MinneBar hosted by Best Buy, which he said to me at the end of a startup session led by Luke Francl. I heard some folks say how they look forward to [...]
Continue reading...Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC
17. January 2010
Just as we headed into the weekend, day before yesterday, the anticipated news broke that formally identified the Minnesota firm that’s funding local ecommerce technology startup Alvenda. I had been picking up rumblings of hiring in the suite of offices at 12th and Marquette that Alvenda shares with two other tech firms. I guess we [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing
17. January 2010
Talk about cloud computing is on the lips of people from startups to enterprise to the government, and Minnesota has a world-class thought leader right here in our midst. The Minnov8 Gang chatted with George Reese about his perspectives, books, upcoming events, and what he thinks about software-as-a-service, platform-as-a-service and how API’s fit in to this [...]
Continue reading...Soltrite: HD Videoconferencing
30. November 2009
Whether you call it video teleconference, video telepresence, webcamming, or just video chat – Soltrite does it. Soltrite is a Minneapolis based startup company founded by Scott Colesworthy, a Minnesota native and man of many hats with a track record of wins in the communication systems integration space. His first company, SPC Communications, originated in the 90’s [...]
Continue reading...DoApp Making Big Strides with ‘Mobile Local News’ App
16. October 2009
If you’re a TV news station, newspaper, or online news site, you probably should get to know Minnesota startup DoApp Inc. For those of you in our local tech community who already know of this firm (it launched early in 2008), you may find this fact amazing: on a search for “DoApp” in the Apple® iTunes® [...]
Continue reading...‘RAIN Makers’ Event to Attract Angel Investors from Far and Wide
14. September 2009
Members of the largest multi-state network of angel investor groups in the country will gather in Minneapolis for the 6th Annual RAIN Makers Conference (http://www.rainsourcecapital.com/rainmaker/conferenceinfo.cfm) on September 23-24 at the new Hilton in Bloomington. Sponsored by St. Paul-based Rain Source Capital (http://www.rainsourcecapital.com/), this event has been held in other cities throughout the Upper Midwest in [...]
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5. March 2010
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