Our guest this week is Steve Grove. Steve and his wife Mary, a husband and wife team, started Silicon North Stars, an initiative that brought 16 students from Minneapolis-St.Paul to spend one week in Silicon Valley this summer. They met with Internet and technology leaders from top companies, startups, and venture capital funds. The week began with an intensive series of lectures, tours, discussions, and group activities at companies throughout the area, and ended up culminating with a group project in which the students paired up to pitch their own tech startups.
Steve grew up in Northfield, Minnesota and is the Director of Community Partnerships for Google. Mary grew up in San Diego, California and is the Director of Google for Entrepreneurs. Both are passionate about technology, development, media, and striving to create access to opportunities for young talent. They live in Menlo Park, California.
Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: One Man Band Fury by Stomping Nick and His Blues Grenade. Brought to us by the podsafe Music Alley.
The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show
Minnesota’s Top Stories
- New iPhone meets old iFans
- A Social Network For The Country Club Set—With A $9K Fee
- Blazing-fast Internet comes to Bemidji (speeds and pricing shown at Gigazone)
- Minnesota High Tech Association Announces Tekne Award Finalists
- TreeHouse Health Names 6th Portfolio Co. – ProValens
- 200 Eden Prairie employees switch badges… SAP buys Concur
Guest: Steve Grove
Interview Mentions
Other Top Stories
- Daring Fireball’s John Gruber review of The iPhones 6
- Wall Street Journal Apple iOS 8 Review: A New Phone Without Buying One
- Apple (press release) Announces Record Pre-orders for iPhone 6 & iPhone 6 Plus Top Four Million in First 24 Hours
- Tim Cook Interview: The iPhone 6, the Apple Watch, and Remaking a Company’s Culture
- Apple’s iPhone 6: The final straw for Android makers eaten alive by the Google data parasite
- Amazon.com buys .Buy for $4.6 million, .Tech sells for $6.8 million
- List of all Generic Top Level Domains (GTLDs) applications and their status (Note: Those that say “DELEGATED” are available now).
Cool Thing of the Week
- Phil: The iPhone 6
- Tim: ZTE ZMAX
- Graeme: Intel Wireless Charging Bowl
- Steve: Obi200 (PDF datasheet) for Google Voice (and SIP), now fully compatible. Steve’s post on using it: Use Google Voice with a Phone for Next-to-Nothing
Upcoming Events
- Ongoing Events
- INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy, 1st Tuesday of each month 3:30-4:30pm
- September
- MinneAnalytics “Marketing Analytics” Conference (#MAMAmn), Sept. 30th, 8:00am-5:00pm+beer (Eventbrite link coming soon @MinneAnalytics and their website)
- October
- Prestige Conference 2014, Oct 3-4, 2014, U of St. Thomas
- WordUP Minneapolis 2014, Oct 11-12, 2014
- Minnesota Product Camp 2014, Saturday, Oct 11th, U of St Thomas
- MIMA Summit: Rise of the Machines, Oct 15th
- Internet of Things Hack Day, Saturday Oct 18th, Minnetronix
- Cyber Security Summit 2014, Oct 21st
- November
- Google Cloud Platform Live, Nov 4th
- March
- Mobile March Twin Cities (Mar 2015 date TBD)
- April
- Twin Cities TechPulse 2015 – Apr 21, 2015
Entrepreneur 
Lots of rumors about Apple’s upcoming September 9th new product announcement. We discuss the iPhone 6 rumor, how big it is, how these new, big smartphones (dubbed “phablets” for phone/tablets) may be negatively impacting tablet sales, and a whole lot more.
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Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
