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Minnesota Cup Honors ‘High Quality’ Crop of Semifinalists
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” [...]
Continue reading...George Reese on “The Cloud’s Shining Moment,” Four Days Later
25. April 2011
(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. Surprisingly, other biggies like Netflix, SmugMug, and Twilio had little or no disruption. One [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 115 – Mobile March Marchers Marching
20. March 2011
Due to the overwhelming success of the Mobile March Twin Cities event this past Saturday with 250 attendees—and the surprisingly excellent previous evening’s Mobile 3D event—very strong evidence now exists that Minnesota has both world-class mobile developers and business users embracing mobile development and mobile use. (Note: photo on the right was modified from this [...]
Continue reading...Minnesota ‘Brand Storyteller’ Changes Name to Brandpoint
14. March 2011
Hopkins-based ARAcontent, which has been a leader in content-based marketing solutions for more than 15 years, announced today it has changed its name to Brandpoint, underscoring the organization’s evolution from a provider of traditional PR brand storytelling into a comprehensive, content-based digital marketing platform. Brandpoint offers three core product channels, each enhanced by accurate, real-time [...]
Continue reading...Workface DEMOs New Platform
28. February 2011
If you’ve ever gone to a website to research, buy or otherwise engage online with a company, you know how frustrating it is to either have to call them on the phone or click “Live Chat” and wait around until someone becomes free to ‘talk’ with you. That’s all about to change. Local entrepreneur Lief [...]
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