Minnebar 2012: Tech Geek-Out!

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Minnesota's annual barcamp un-conference, aka Minnebar, returned for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday, April 7, and it was a blockbuster! Held again at Best Buy's corporate headquarters in Richfield, the event attracted some 1300, the most in its history. It just … [Read more...]

Minnesota Cup Honors ‘High Quality’ Crop of Semifinalists

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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 … [Read more...]

In Its 24th Year, Venture Conference Asks If Minnesota Has ‘Lost It’

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We'll find out Thursday, because I'll be there to live-blog it all: the proceedings of the annual Minnesota Venture & Finance Conference at the Minneapolis Convention Center, co-hosted as always by the Minnesota Venture Capital Association and The Collaborative. The … [Read more...]

Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC

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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 … [Read more...]