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Workface Presents at AlwaysOn

22. April 2010

For more than two years, Minnov8 has monitored the progress of Workface and founder/CEO Lief Larson. Especially the continued evolution of BusinessCard2, a technology which you can see a part of if you click on the tab on the right side of your browser. Besides being a good guy and friend of Minnov8, Lief is [...]

DoApp Signs L.A. Newspaper Group to Mobile Local News Publishing Platform

13. April 2010

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DoApp Inc., the Rochester-based mobile development company behind such apps as WCCO for iPhone, Mobile Local News, iKenex for Real Estate, Adagogo mobile advertising, and mRemedy, a partnership between The Mayo Clinic and DoApp, just nnounced their Mobile Local News publishing platform has signed the Los Angeles Newspaper Group (LANG). LANG properties include: Los Angeles [...]

Koozala

5. March 2010

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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 [...]

ReliaCloud & enStratus Form Partnership

24. February 2010

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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 [...]

MN Tech Rocks – Last Night Was Proof

6. February 2010

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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 [...]

Swarmcast to Lay Off Half the Company

25. January 2010

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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 [...]

Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk

22. January 2010

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“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 [...]

Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

17. January 2010

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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 [...]

Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing

17. January 2010

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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 [...]

Soltrite: HD Videoconferencing

30. November 2009

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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 [...]

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Workface Presents at AlwaysOn

DoApp Signs L.A. Newspaper Group to Mobile Local News Publishing Platform

Koozala

ReliaCloud & enStratus Form Partnership

MN Tech Rocks – Last Night Was Proof

Swarmcast to Lay Off Half the Company

Minnesota Startup Community: The Time Has Come For Less Talk and More Walk

Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

Minnov8 Gang 63: A Conversation on Cloud Computing

Soltrite: HD Videoconferencing

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