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Minnov8 Gang 147 – Wanna Buy Some Wheat?

Friday, December 2, 2011

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The Gang is down at the CoCoMSP Minneapolis Grain Exchange facility and we talk with Don Ball, co-founder of CoCoMSP and a fun guy. It is always a delight to talk with Don about the future of work, what’s happening at CoCo, and why he actually can’t sell us some wheat anymore (Wikipedia article here: [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 146 – Is Fire *Your* Tablet?

Friday, November 18, 2011

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The Gang shows up for the Social Media Breakfast held at Thomson Reuters to talk the new Kindle Fire, tablets and tablet publishing, and mobile. We didn’t have enough time to be exhaustive in our discussion, but we cover a lot of ground in a short time. Joining us on the ‘cast is our frequent [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 144 – Smartphones & SmartScooters?

Friday, November 4, 2011

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A continued acceleration in all things mobile takes an interesting twist this week with a Best Buy VC investment in electric scooters. We then have on a special guest, Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter), to give the Gang and you an “update on all things mobile.” Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, and Phil Wilson [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 141 – Everything’s a Beta

Friday, October 14, 2011

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One of Minnesota’s premiere interactive marketing thought leaders and practioners, Andrew Eklund of Ciceron, shares his insights and perspectives after Wednesday’s MIMA Summit as well as on other key trends in new media. Listen for the discussion wrapped around Andrew’s best line of the entire podcast (in Borsch’s opinion). While discussing how Ciceron encourages clients [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 140 – Heaven is no Apple Store

Saturday, October 8, 2011

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The passing of Apple’s co-founder and CEO, Steve Jobs, overshadowed all other stories of the past week…even Apple’s own introduction of the iPhone 4S. Still, there were numerous things to talk about since the acceleration in technology innovation continues unabated. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda Zapata Music: “Even Meaner” by [...]

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M8 Gang Podcast 139 – Capella U Mobile’s Kristofer Layon

Friday, September 30, 2011

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Online learning continues to accelerate and Capella University is on the leading edge of it. Online increasingly means “mobile” and Capella recently brought on a unique, highly qualified and experienced guy, Kristofer Layon, to be their mobile product manager. We talk with Kris about what he’s doing at Capella, issues he’s wrestling with, and how [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 138 – Fate…or Plus?

Friday, September 23, 2011

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Lots of announcements this week with Facebook f8, Google+ opening up to everyone, and Forbes thinking our hometown technology retail success story, Best Buy, is in trouble. Our guest this week is Ben Theis, Field Marketing Lead for Google in Minnesota (and part of a team of five). He talks about what he’s doing here, [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 137 – Major Mojo Baby!

Friday, September 16, 2011

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MOJO Minnesota is an innovation advocacy force comprised of like-minded business leaders working to fuel entrepreneurship and reignite Minnesota’s culture of innovation. These folks describe themselves as, “…business advisors, entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, angel investors and attorneys passionate about creating jobs and economic growth through the power of Minnesota based technology companies” and we were pleased [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 136 – Pedal to the Metal

Saturday, September 10, 2011

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This past summer amazed the Gang in how there has been a constant and continuing stream of new announcements, mergers and acquisitions, and major battles in the mobile space. We discuss this and much more in this week’s podcast. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week) Music: “Kitchen [...]

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Minnov8 Gang 135 – Take a Tablet

Friday, August 12, 2011

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The Gang became aware of the introduction of the brand new WCCO iPad app and we just had to talk with the CEO of one of this State’s premiere mobile development organizations, DoApp, who built that app for WCCO. DoApp is much more than just an app developer (e.g., Mobile Local News strategy with: iPhone & Android [...]

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