Marissa Mayer’s CEO compensation package was a surprise to many of us as was Dalton Caldwell’s audacious proposal to raise $500k. We talk about this and much more on this show.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson (Tim Elliott is off this week)
Music: Heartless by Michael Burks from the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:
- MN Cup pitch event at Digital River (11 startups participated)
- MIMA event with Pandora
- Marissa Mayer
- Microsoft
- Windows 8 Launch is set for October 26, 2012
- Microsoft Posts $492M Q4 2012 Loss Because Of $6.19B aQuantive Writedown, $18.06B Revenue
- Don’t Believe the Doomsayers: Microsoft’s Q4 Results Are Good News
- FBI Wants Backdoors in Facebook, Skype and Instant Messaging
- Microsoft patent allows for web-based spying technology
- High Tech Headstones. Live forever with a QR code the brainchild of a Twin Cities-based Katzman Monument
- App.Net to take on Twitter? Announcing an audacious proposal (Dalton Caldwell blog)
- Size of the baby boomer population
- Hootsuite’s Google+ Pages integration
- Hardware hacker startup grabs $3.65M for computer/Lego hybrid toy
- Minneapolis’ 311 app
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- MinneDemo, July 26th at Aria, 6:30pm
- Tuesday/Wednesday, August 7th-8th: DataVenu – “New Directions for Personal Data”
- Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals