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Bloomington Firm Expects to Add 300 High-Tech Jobs

11. November 2010

Twin Cities Business (TCB) magazine reported today that Polar Semiconductor Inc. (PSI) is planning to build a new facility, adding to its existing 200,000-square-foot facility in Bloomington, just East of the Mall of America on Old Shakopee Road. It cited documents recently filed with the City of Bloomington’s planning division. But the biggest news is [...]

In Its 24th Year, Venture Conference Asks If Minnesota Has ‘Lost It’

10. October 2010

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We’ll find out Thursday, because I’ll be there to live-blog it all: the proceedings of the annual Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center, co-hosted as always by the Minnesota Venture Capital Association and The Collaborative. The blue-suit crowd will turn out once more to hash over where, oh, where is venture [...]

Stealth Startup Inveni Launches Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in SF, and midVenturesLaunch in Chicago

28. September 2010

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Today, Minnetonka-based Inveni LLC is telling the world its newly launched discovery engine “will drive social recommendations in the Web’s next wave.” The company’s free consumer service will also enable better targeted advertising. The Inveni discovery engine, says the firm, will change how consumers both make and receive recommendations on the Web. As of today, [...]

EarthClean Takes the MN Cup!

15. September 2010

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Last night, EarthClean, a Minneapolis-based start-up that makes an environmentally friendly fire retardant, was named “Minnesota’s Top Breakthrough Business Idea” and honored for its innovative business concept. Area business leaders and investors selected EarthClean as the 6th Annual Minnesota Cup winner, awarding it $20,000 as Clean Tech & Renewable Energy Division winner and an additional [...]

MN Company Lets You Run Windows Apps on a Mac – the Easy Way

7. September 2010

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They say the best blogging is about story-telling. So, let me tell you one of mine — how I came to write this post. First, some background: I run a Windows-free environment, and have for a long time. I put in my time with “Windoz” many years ago, and quickly left it behind. I can’t [...]

Workface Acquires Card.ly

1. September 2010

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Entrepreneur and friend of Minnov8, Lief Larson of Workface, Inc and BusinessCard2 in Minneapolis, has leapt forward on his vision to make BusinessCard2 the delivery mechanism to, “…empower business people to create, promote, and broadcast their unique professional persona throughout the internet” by acquiring Card.ly. Any offering like BusinessCard2 requires critical mass to be effective. [...]

MentorMate: Turning Vision in to Software

7. July 2010

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One of the most challenging things to do as a startup, entrepreneur, or any leader looking to manifest a vision or outcome in software, is finding a trusted partner with whom to turn that vision in to reality. MentorMate, a mobile, application & web software development company in Minneapolis, does this sort of work all [...]

Powerful Document Collaboration with Redliner

7. July 2010

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If you collaborate with others on contracts, agreements, leases, press releases, copy for your website, or any other activity where multiple people have to touch an electronic document, you know all too well the incredible frustration that results from trying to track changes to any of it! Redliner is a new offering, still in beta, [...]

ReliaCloud Releases Partner Program

27. May 2010

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ReliaCloud, our own local (but national) cloud computing infrastructure company, has launched a full fledged channel program centered on their enterprise-class infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) cloud computing offering. According to Reliacloud, the five year growth outlook for IT cloud services revenue from 2009 to 2013 remains strong, with an annual growth rate of 26% – over six [...]

MN Mobile Developers Clocking Millions of Downloads

2. May 2010

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Local developers of apps for mobile devices, especially those designed for Apple’s platform, are quietly amassing large numbers of users for their creations, I’ve been learning. This past week, I thought it would be an interesting little project for me to do a survey of sorts as the basis for this blog post. What I [...]

Archive | Emerging MN Companies RSS feed for this section

Bloomington Firm Expects to Add 300 High-Tech Jobs

In Its 24th Year, Venture Conference Asks If Minnesota Has ‘Lost It’

Stealth Startup Inveni Launches Today at TechCrunch Disrupt in SF, and midVenturesLaunch in Chicago

EarthClean Takes the MN Cup!

MN Company Lets You Run Windows Apps on a Mac – the Easy Way

Workface Acquires Card.ly

MentorMate: Turning Vision in to Software

Powerful Document Collaboration with Redliner

ReliaCloud Releases Partner Program

MN Mobile Developers Clocking Millions of Downloads

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