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Is Perception the Reality with MN Venture Funding?

16. July 2010

All the effort underway to kickstart innovation and entrepreneurial activity ((e.g., MHTA; MNCup; MOJO MN; Minnedemo/Minnebar; Minnov8; tech.mn) is clearly a reaction to the nearly terminal decline of risk taking and venture funding in Minnesota. Wherever there is a vacuum, something will fill it! How true is the perception that Minnesota lacks funding and risk-taking venture capitalists? If you read [...]

Method Patents: Good or Bad?

15. July 2010

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Let’s say you’ve founded a startup and think you have a completely original idea no one has thought of before with new approaches to the way an old process works. You might then think all you have to do is patent that process and you can achieve the protection patenting is all about: excluding others [...]

Angel-backed Startups 30-50% More Likely To Be Successful

27. April 2010

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A landmark study was just released by two professors, one from Harvard Business School and the other MIT, which reveals that, for the most part, angel-backed companies enjoy performance gains of 30-50% when compared to other non-funded startups. From the executive summary: What difference do angel investors make for the success and growth of new ventures? [...]

Why Now? MN Legislature Passes Bill w/Angel Investment Tax Credit

30. March 2010

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After many years of lip service to angel investment tax credits, the House voted 112-20 to approve a package of tax credits designed to stimulate job growth in Minnesota with a subsequent 58-3 approval by the Senate shortly thereafter and it now goes to Gov. Tim Pawlenty for signature. Sponsored by Rep. Ann Lenczewski (DFL-Bloomington) and [...]

MinneSpark Has $1,000 (Potentially) For You

25. March 2010

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What could you do with $1,000 for your best idea? Could you turn it into a scalable business? Let’s find out! MinneSpark will award 1 to n grants of $1,000 to Minnesota-based teams who demonstrate to their trustees the ability to take that money and turn it into something real. This is about doing more with [...]

Dan Mallin Presents MN Science & Tech Committee Findings

8. March 2010

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Pretty sobering assessment of our state and the future of innovation here….we might not have one if we don’t get moving in a positive direction! Minnesota faces a crisis of competitiveness in attracting high-tech industries, and needs a comprehensive science and technology initiative to remedy the problem. A 16 member committee of experts from the [...]

‘RAIN Makers’ Event to Attract Angel Investors from Far and Wide

14. September 2009

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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 [...]

FanChatter Goes to the Valley, Tapped by ‘American Idol’ for Startups: Y Combinator

6. August 2009

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Here’s a story many in Minnesota have been waiting to hear — including several of you out there in the local developer and ad communities who knew something was up. Yes, our friends at Minneapolis startup FanChatter have finally gone public with what they’ve been doing for the past four months. FanChatter is a site [...]

VC Ann Winblad on Cloud Computing

24. June 2009

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Ann Winblad, a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader (and Minnesota bred entrepreneur!), is the co-founder and a Managing Director of Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. In 1976, following a stint as a systems programmer at the Federal Reserve Bank, Ann co-founded Open Systems, Inc. with a $500 investment, and turned it into [...]

JPMorgan Internet Investment Guide

29. January 2009

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For Minnesotans interested in starting up or expanding within the internet space in these challenging economic times, solid financial sector analysis is often difficult to obtain. For anyone who has pitched their idea, concept or business plan, it’s clear how important it is to put oneself in the shoes of investors, venture capitalists and banks [...]

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Is Perception the Reality with MN Venture Funding?

Method Patents: Good or Bad?

Angel-backed Startups 30-50% More Likely To Be Successful

Why Now? MN Legislature Passes Bill w/Angel Investment Tax Credit

MinneSpark Has $1,000 (Potentially) For You

Dan Mallin Presents MN Science & Tech Committee Findings

‘RAIN Makers’ Event to Attract Angel Investors from Far and Wide

FanChatter Goes to the Valley, Tapped by ‘American Idol’ for Startups: Y Combinator

VC Ann Winblad on Cloud Computing

JPMorgan Internet Investment Guide

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