Tag Archive | "Startups & Developers"

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

Sunday, October 10, 2010

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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 blue-suit crowd will turn out once more to hash over where, oh, where is venture [...]

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Startup Succession Planning

Friday, August 27, 2010

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A survey of over 140 North American CEOs revealed that nearly half of their companies do not have a succession plan: While 69% of respondents think that a CEO successor needs to be “ready now” to step into the shoes of the departing CEO, only 54% are grooming an executive for this position. Part of [...]

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W3i Lights Up the ‘Net with Its Latest App News

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

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Okay, so there’s this company named Apple that I hear makes phones.  And people tell me there’s been, uh, a bit of news lately about some new phone of theirs?  Well, that media firestorm didn’t stop Minnesota’s W3i LLC from deciding to jump in with some news of its own, which is actually related to [...]

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MN Mobile Developers Clocking Millions of Downloads

Sunday, May 2, 2010

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Local developers of apps for mobile devices, especially those designed for Apple’s platform, are quietly amassing large numbers of users for their creations, I’ve been learning. This past week, I thought it would be an interesting little project for me to do a survey of sorts as the basis for this blog post. What I [...]

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MN Tech Rocks – Last Night Was Proof

Saturday, February 6, 2010

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If you weren’t at Minnedemo last night, well, you ain’t….  Seriously, for those few of you players in our Internet/IT community who weren’t there, you missed a damn good one.  I tweeted as I left about 10:30 pm (okay, I admit I tweet from my car) that I thought it was the best ever.  There [...]

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Startup Roundtable to Convene, Huzzah!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

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Thomas Knoll is gathering the Knights of Tech Entrepreneurship for a meeting at the MN Startup Culture Roundtable, scheduled for February 5th. Thomas, currently residing in the sunny climes of San Francisco, is familiar to most in the Minnesota tech and social media world through his time working as a web designer here. He made [...]

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Twin Cities Firm Joins Ranks of Public Cloud Computing Providers

Monday, December 21, 2009

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Though the likes of cloud industry leaders Amazon Web Services and Rackpace may not yet have noticed, a Minnesota company has been quietly trying to do them one better. VISI, Minnesota’s largest data center services and managed hosting provider, formally announced on December 17 a public beta of its ReliaCloud cloud computing service, whereby any business can now [...]

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