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Predicting Human Behavior through Games
Every week, people from around the world spend more than 3 billion hours playing video games. Professor Jaideep Srivastava of the University of Minnesota and Professor Dmitri Williams at the University of Southern California find this number too large to ignore. Their software company Ninja Metrics relies on social analytics to make sense of human [...]
Continue reading...More Fuel for NGIN
24. August 2011
TST Media, the creators of the NGIN software platform has scored a round of financing led by El Dorado Ventures. When the ink dried on the agreement last week TST had secured $3.5 million to “grow existing business partnerships, drive software innovations and expand their talent base.” TST Media CEO and co-founder, Justin Kaufenberg noted [...]
Continue reading...At the Crossroads Neandertals Hooked Up With Us
10. August 2011
If you’ve paid any attention to the acceleration in human and animal genomics research, the revelations and scientific discoveries are amazing. As someone who has had his DNA analyzed at 23andMe (whose co-founder Anne Wojcicki is married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin), I can tell you first-hand about the absolutely delightful discoveries I’ve made about [...]
Continue reading...Workface Lands $900k in Venture Capital
26. July 2011
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 and have watched this startup closely as they’ve continued to execute on [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Cup Honors ‘High Quality’ Crop of Semifinalists
22. June 2011
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 chance to interview cofounder Scott Litman, who talked [...]
Continue reading...Project Skyway Boot-Camp Weekend…Wow!
13. June 2011
Project Skyway Boot-Camp weekend was held this past weekend (June 10-12) at CoCoMSP’s downtown St. Paul location. Curt Prins was one of the mentor/judges and asked me to join him in the sales and marketing group for the roundtable sessions. I must say I came away with an even deeper appreciation for the talent, energy [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Cup Semi-Finalists Announced
13. June 2011
The Minnesota Cup announced their nearly 50 semi-finalists today! These semi-finalists were selected and announced this morning out of more than 1,000 aspiring entrepreneurs who participated in the 2011 competition. Judging the first round entries was challenging as the overall quality of entries was excellent. 47 of the best and most innovative business ideas will now [...]
Continue reading...Hiring with Hyier
17. May 2011
If you’re looking for a job, you know how tough it is to get the interview and to get some kind of communication back from a company where you’ve applied. Imagine you were a hiring manager or HR person in a company in need of one or more people for key jobs. Companies that post [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota Cup Deadline Fast Approaching
10. May 2011
Got a great business idea? Minnesota entrepreneurs, inventors and anyone else with one are encouraged to enter the 2011 Minnesota Cup competition but you’d better hurry…the deadline is approaching fast! The entry deadline of 11:59pm on May 20th is fast approaching so begin your entry ASAP. At last year’s event, co-founder Scott Litman joked that [...]
Continue reading...CoCo Expanding to Minneapolis
10. May 2011
CoCo, the co-working firm with a great space in St. Paul, is a heartbeat away from signing a lease on a new space in Minneapolis. What sets this particular space apart is that CoCo is teaming with Project Skyway to create a new kind of “creative incubation” space for business. Positioned as an “historic space” [...]
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