Tag Archive | "venture capital"

Minnov8 Gang Podcast #51: Cloud and the Crowd

Saturday, September 19, 2009

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This Week’s Show Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is out in San Diego gearing up for DEMO Fall ’09 and he’ll be liveblogging it here). Music by Excellent Adventure from Music Alley, purveyor of podsafe tunes. Discussed during the show: Strib/WCCO comparison and Tim’s pointing out how the Pioneer Press also “gets it” and [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast 39: A Conversation with Codemorphic

Saturday, June 13, 2009

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The Gang has a great discussion with Bill Heyman, co-founder of Codemorphic, a rock-solid iPhone development shop (based in Eden Prairie) with significant application credibility through their creation of over a dozen apps such as: Public Radio Tuner (#2 in iTunes store, 2M+ downloads, iTunes link) General Mills Betty Crocker Cookbook (iTunes link) Cisco/Linksys Media [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 37

Saturday, May 23, 2009

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Our guest this week is Marti Nyman, a senior business development executive with more than 20 years of success in areas within the Energy, Telecommunications, and Consumer Retail sectors, and, most recently, was responsible for the formation and launch of Best Buy’s Venture Capital practice. Nyman, along with serial entrepreneur John Montague, are off on [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 36

Saturday, May 9, 2009

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The Gang talks about a meetup with entrepreneur, VC, artist and all-around renaissance man, Gary Smaby, and his spearheading of what’s euphemistically dubbed “the collaboratory”, but is officially an Innovation by Design framework to incubate startups, tap into the University brain-trust, and create a culture of innovation within the University of Minnesota (read more in [...]

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JPMorgan Internet Investment Guide

Thursday, January 29, 2009

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For Minnesotans interested in starting up or expanding within the internet space in these challenging economic times, solid financial sector analysis is often difficult to obtain. For anyone who has pitched their idea, concept or business plan, it’s clear how important it is to put oneself in the shoes of investors, venture capitalists and banks [...]

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2008 Investor Fraud Traps

Monday, October 6, 2008

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Whether you’re an angel investor listening to startup pitches or an innovator considering funding sources, now is a time to be extra careful with anything related to money, credit, lending or capital of any kind — especially if you’re a participant in a social or affinity network or if you’re transparent with your blog and [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 9

Saturday, October 4, 2008

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson Based upon feedback we’ve received from you and many other listeners, the Gang is increasing the pace of the show and getting to areas of interest in a tighter show format. In today’s show, a few links mentioned include: + Minnesota Interactive Marketing Association (MIMA) Summit + The [...]

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Minnov8 Gang Podcast – Episode 7

Saturday, September 20, 2008

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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson We were absolutely delighted this week to have three very special guests who joined the Gang for a discussion about ‘net and web innovation in Minnesota: - Katharine Grayson: Staff Writer for the Twin Cities Business Journal. Katharine covers the internet and web technology beat for the [...]

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Best Buy Shakes Up VC Liaison Group

Monday, August 11, 2008

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The longtime head of the group within Best Buy Co. that served as liaison to the venture capital community is out, replaced by two senior VPs. Martin Nyman told me his position was eliminated June 30. He had been with the company for approximately seven years, with a recent title of Director-Global Innovation Network. At [...]

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‘Minnebar’ Becoming Top Event for State’s Internet/Software Developers and Entrepreneurs

Sunday, May 4, 2008

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An annual Minnesota event, playfully named Minnebar — which grew out of a grass-roots tech industry initiative called Barcamp — is happening for the third year in a row here in the Twin Cities this coming Saturday, May 10, at the U of M’s Coffman Union. By 8:00 am, somewhere between 300 and 400 software [...]

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