We covered several important stories this week but were pleased that Marty Wetherall, Director of Innovation at Fallon & leader of StarterKit, could join us as our guest. Marty is a guy who is involved in lots of entrepreneurial, community and mentoring activities, two of which we talk about on this show.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Mustang Sally by James Friday under a Creative Commons License.
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Past Week’s Biggest MN Stories
- Investment Crowdfunding Legalized In Minnesota
- Stratasys Spins Off Product Development Workshop
- LeadPages raises $27M VC round for acquisitions and hiring
- Drive Capital, Columbus, OH (lead investor in LeadPages Series B)
- LeadPages’ WordPress integration
- Assemble Shared Office to open third location in Minneapolis
Guest: Marty Wetherall – Director of Innovation, Fallon
- TC Startup Weekend Youth event recap
- EXPO 2023 update
- Mention: EXPO 2015
- About Marty: StarterKit; Twitter; LinkedIn; Google+; Instagram
Other Top Tech Stories
- Why BuzzFeed wanted everyone to know about its new news app — even before it launched
- Hack of cloud-based LastPass exposes hashed master passwords
Steve’s Security Tip of the Week
- TIP: How to Keep Your Home Network Safe
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: BuzzFeed News App (iTunes link) & Voice activated Smart Grill
- Tim: Mini Raspberry Pi Handheld Notebook
- Graeme: iPhaser is Apple-Styled Star Trek Phaser
- Steve: Dropbox File Request – “A Non-Geek’s SFTP”
- My personal blog post: Dropbox Delivers FTP-like Uploading Anyone Can Use
Upcoming Events
- MobilizeMN MeetUp: “The Journey of a Thousand Skulls” June 23rd
- Big Data Executive Roundtable, June 23rd, 7:30 am, RadissonBlu
- Treehouse Health “Why Understanding Patents Will Change Your Startup” June 23rd
- SRC CON (pro. “Source-con”) June 25-26, U of MN McNamara Alumni Center
- Twin Cities Drupal Camp, June 25-28, University of St. Thomas
- BRANDisruption: How Consumers Hijacked Marketing…And What We’re Doing About It July 9th
- Conversations About The Future Of Advertising, July 15th, Fine Line Music Café
- JoomlaDayMN, July 18th, Mall of America
- MinneDemo 20, July 23rd at The Depot, 6pm
- Prestige Conference, August 1-2, U of St. Thomas Mpls
- MinneAnalytics conference on “Financial and Retail Analytics,” Carlson School, August 12th
- Twin Cities Startup Week, Sept. 8-13
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