A continued acceleration in all things mobile takes an interesting twist this week with a Best Buy VC investment in electric scooters. We then have on a special guest, Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter), to give the Gang and you an “update on all things mobile.”
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Discussed during the show:
- MN-Based Cloud Startup enStratus Secures Series A VC Investment
- MHTA Tekne Awards (MHTA site; BizJournal article)
- Returns aren’t in on Best Buy’s VC venture
- Google’s new GoMo – Google Creates “GoMo” Portal To Help You Mobilize
- New in Google Reader: a fresh design, and Google+ sharing and Reader redesign: Terrible decision, or worst decision?
- Google Releases Gmail for iOS…then pulls it
- HTML5 and a great site with demos called,”HTML ROCKS”
- Square’s Card Case iOS App Adds Support For Hands-Free Payments, Twitter Integration For Merchants
- Groupon IPO
- Mary Meeker’s State of the Internet
- Kidblog; Minnov8 Gang podcast with the co-founder; Graeme’s video with key folks about hitting 1M users
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- Wednesday, November 9th: Hacks/Hackers Twin Cities – “Newsrooms, Open Source, and the Maker Culture”
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- Tuesday, November 15th: Mobile Twin Cities
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Mobile is changing dramatically and the strategic-level changes are a challenge to stay on top of, which is why we have Lisa Foote on as our guest for this podcast. No one in the Twin Cities is on top of the mobile space like Lisa is, and the Gang did a lot more than our usual homework to prepare for our time with her. As such, there are several fabulous links below that you’ll undoubtedly find enlightening if you’re at all interested in the mobile market (and where the “OMG!” about the death of feature phones comes from).