Showcasing Minnesota Technology Innovation
Our guest this week is Zach Supalla, CEO of Spark Devices, a company that did a 'pivot' to build The Spark Core, their new Kickstarter project with a modest $10,000 goal that (as of this morning) had over $390,000 in backing! The 'spark core' is an Arduino-compatible, Wi-Fi … [Read more...]
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week). Music: Don't Walk Away from Smoke Ring Days. From the podsafe Music Alley. Discussed during the show… Minnesota Stories Spark is crushing it on Kickstarter Phil's First … [Read more...]
They're both coming soon! And they may actually be arriving about the same time. But, no worries, the first-year Midwest Mobile Summit will be held April 28-29 in downtown Fargo ND, which I'm told is a pretty safe area of town from the rising waters that come every spring to … [Read more...]
News broke today about the founding of a new venture capital firm composed mainly of Minnesota names, including partners from a VC firm with a name familiar to many here in Minnesota that is now being retired. Four Minnesotans, plus a transplanted one, form the core of the … [Read more...]
Big news today from our friends at CoCoMSP. The very successful, high-profile coworking venue announced today it will partner with Google to "boost entrepreneurship in Minnesota." Specifically, CoCo has agreed to work with the "Google for Entrepreneurs" program to host … [Read more...]
The local Minnesota startup community continues to grow as have technology players who started up a long time ago. One of those growing, players, an organization that has reinvented itself and accelerated in to the mobile space by helping developers monetize their apps and … [Read more...]
The Gang, minus Graeme this week, talks about a range of topics including the QFOLabs Toy-helicopter startup has the tech, needs the lift (Minnov8 profile by Graeme here) and how Borsch would like it if it had munitions on board (especially lasers!). Hosts: Steve … [Read more...]
MCAD has a really cool event coming up on Tuesday evening, September 11. The best thing of all? It's free and open to public. Here are the details: Visiting-Artist Lecture: Tom Gerhardt and Dan Provost, Cofounders of Studio Neat, New York City, Tuesday, September 11, … [Read more...]
"By 2015, more people will access the Internet from mobile devices than from conventional PCs. A year later, in 2016, 19 billion devices and gizmos will be connected to the mobile Internet -- not just your smartphone and tablet, but your washing machine, cars and clothes … [Read more...]
The shifts in media and social media continue unabated, all while technology software and hardware companies jockey for position on who will be the core technology provider to we media consumer and users. Especially interesting was our discussion before the podcast began … [Read more...]
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