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Minnov8 Gang 169 – Does This Make Me Look Dorky?
The Gang is joined by Julio Ojeda-Zapata as our guest host and talk the Facebook IPO, gadgets, travel technology and much more. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata Discussed during the show: TiE Minnesota “Startups & Mentors” Local startup funding report here and Kidblog and Heroic and FanChatter Facebook Raises $16 Billion In Record [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 163 – Is Retail Dead?
Saturday, March 31, 2012
The announcement by Best Buy on cutting $800M by FY 2015, closing 50 stores and corporate layoffs of 400 people sparked a lot of conversation on this show about retail and its disruption. Online commerce, mobile devices, easy price-checking, big-box competitors cherry-picking hot product categories to sell and more is causing Best Buy no end [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 159 – Social Chatter
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Social media ‘chatter’ seems to be growing exponentially and the services capitalizing upon it are being launched, or accelerated, by the week. Marty Wetherall, Director of Innovation at Fallon and co-founder of Fanchatter, joins us to talk about what’s happening with his startup and about the growth of social chatter overall. Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 158 – Aloha Smartphones & Tablets
Saturday, February 25, 2012
“Aloha” is an Hawaiian word used both for greeting, or leaving, someone. Aloha is thus a metaphor for both the opportunity and the angst about how to capitalize upon it. That angst many people feel comes when we examine how to publish or develop apps for smartphones and tablets. The Gang discusses the market, tools, and how [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 157 – More Donuts!
Saturday, February 18, 2012
Once again there is SO much going on in technology that we had to do two key things: have on Julio Ojeda-Zapata as our guest host and fortify ourselves with the (possible, but unlikely) Mobile March TC special gimmee for Minnov8 Gang Podcast listeners, donuts! Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 156 – Pathgate, Privacy & Phones
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Imagine what sort of mischief Richard Nixon would have been able to get in to as president, if he’d had the sort of technologies available to him today. The Watergate scandal would have been child’s play compared to the sort of overt and covert tracking that could’ve been done on Nixon’s political opponents with today’s [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 155 – It’s the Data
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Publisher and tech visionary, Tim O’Reilly, has repeatedly said that “Data is the Intel Inside“. O’Reilly was referring, of course, to Intel’s famous “Intel Inside” ad campaign touting the importance of their chips, mainly since chips are invisible inside a computer or device and it’s easy for competitors to market their chips as being equal [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 147 – Wanna Buy Some Wheat?
Friday, December 2, 2011
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: [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 144 – Smartphones & SmartScooters?
Friday, November 4, 2011
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 [...]
Continue reading...Minnov8 Gang 138 – Fate…or Plus?
Friday, September 23, 2011
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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- Mobile Text Message “Cramming” Scam
- Student Led Technology Conference
- UnitedHealth Group’s Booth at CES
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