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Minnov8 Gang 255 – In *Bitcoins* We Trust?

March 1, 2014 By Steve Borsch

in-what-we-trust_mainWe have much to discuss this week but probably the biggest story is the meltdown of Mt. Gox, the Bitcoin exchange, and its loss of nearly half a billion dollars in Bitcoins. So should you invest or mine Bitcoins? Would you put your 401k in to one? Would it be safer to shop with Bitcoins than using a credit card at Target?

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week)
Music: Keep Your Motor Running by Dave Hole. Brought to us by Music Alley

The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:03:31 — 36.9MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

  • Target
    • Data Breach Hurts Profit at Target 
    • Target’s split personality: profits plunge, but stocks soar
  • Best Buy
    • Better profit at Best Buy in holiday quarter cheers investors
    • As goes Best Buy, so goes the U.S. economy
    • Best Buy’s Sales Drop on Weak Consumer Electronics Market
    • Best Buy laying off about 2,000 managers across the country
  • Google and MN
    • Google taps U of M for 3-D-sensing smartphone
    • Google makes 3D phone, taps the U of M for research

Other Top Stories

  • Internet TV
    • Netflix and Comcast Solve Their Web Traffic Problem With a Long-Term Deal
    • Inside The Netflix/Comcast Deal and What The Media Is Getting Very Wrong
    • Apple TV $25 gift card offer reported as rumors of new device swirl
    • Apple TV is Apple’s fastest-growing product
    • Conan O’Brien’s Serious Jibber Jabber
    • TiVo’s co-founders start selling $49 Qplay TV streamer
    • LumaTV (Note: This app does A LOT more than we discussed on the show so check it out!)
  • Bitcoin
    • Mt Gox: The brief reign of bitcoin’s top exchange
    • Tokyo bitcoin exchange files for bankruptcy
  • The Gear Fit is what wearables should look like
  • Apple software to drive smart Ferrari
  • Microsoft experimenting with free version of Windows 8.1
  • Google’s Project Ara could go on sale next year for $50

Other Links to Topics Discussed During the Show

  • SanDisk Ultra 128 GB microSDXC UHS-I Card
    • The MiniDrive (microSD adaptor for MacBook Air/Pro/Retina)
  • Graeme’s Flipboard magazine “Big Data in the Wild”
    • Twitter feed for that Big Data magazine

Upcoming Events

  • INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
  • Minneanalytics “Minnesota Analytics, Product Innovation & Data Visualization,” March 19th
  • Mobile March – March 20th – Tickets on sale now!
  • SMBMSP #64, Social Media Case Studies, March 28th
  • Minnebar, Saturday, April 12th. Details to come…
  • Overnight Website Challenge, April 12th-13th
  • MinneWebCon, April 14 & 15, U of MN

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Best Buy, Google, Microsoft, Minnebar, mobile, University of Minnesota

Minnov8 Gang 254 – Hallelujah! Let There Be Light!

February 22, 2014 By Steve Borsch

let-there-be-light-mainAnything internet remains central to today’s technology and our always on, always connected lifestyles are seeing us all demand more and more bandwidth. As such we talk this week about Google Fiber and Steve being the recipient of some CenturyLink evangelical fiber salespeople. As always, we cover the tech that matters to you too.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson (Graeme Thickins is off this week)
Music: If This Guitar Could Talk by Mean Gene Kelton and The Die Hards. Brought to us by Music Alley

The Podcast
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Discussed During the Show

Minnesota’s Top Stories

  • Mobile March agenda
  • Target Taps Into Gaming With 6 Planned Mobile Apps
  • MN Ranks Highly For Female Entrepreneurship, Well-Being
    • PreciouStatus wants to become the informative app for day-care parents
  • The Business Of Tom Barnard (KQRS host and a guy reinventing podcasting?)
    • The Tom Barnard Podcast site 
  • Steve Perlman: pCell’s wireless tech is real, and it will change the world
    • This Man Says He Can Speed Cell Data 1,000-Fold. Will Carriers Listen?
    • Steve Perlman demo’ing pCell on Vimeo
  • Minnesota’s Young Millionaires (including Rob & Ryan Weber)

Other Top Stories & Mentions

  • Microsoft Said to Cut Windows Price 70% to Counter Rivals
  • Facebook to Acquire WhatsApp
    • Why Facebook Dropped $19B On WhatsApp
    • Exclusive: The Rags-To-Riches Tale Of How Jan Koum Built WhatsApp Into Facebook’s New $19 Billion Baby
  • Google Fiber chooses nine metro areas for possible expansion
    • Netflix packets being dropped every day because Verizon wants more money
    • Sources: Netflix and Comcast have reached a peering agreement
  • OwnCloud
  • Steve Jobs will appear on a US postage stamp in 2015
  • Bruce Schneier at CNN: It’s time to break up the NSA

Upcoming Events

  • INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
  • TiE MN Chapter – 4th Annual Entrepreneurs Workshop – Wednesday, February 19th
  • CoCo Google Happy Hour and Pitch Event February 21st
  • She’s Geeky-Minneapolis – February 22-23, Central Library
  • SMBMSP #63 Behind the Firewall: Social Networking for Employee Collab., March 3rd
  • Mobile March – March 20th – Tickets on sale now!
  • Minnebar, Saturday, April 12th. Details to come…
  • Overnight Website Challenge, April 12th-13th

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Apple, Google, Minnebar, SMBMSP

Minnov8 Gang 253 – Controlling the Pipe

February 15, 2014 By Steve Borsch

controlling-the-pipe-mainThe biggest story of the past week surrounds Comcast/Xfinity and their merger with Time Warner Cable. Will this place the combined company in a position to wield unprecedented control over the internet pipe in to our homes and businesses?

The combined company will enjoy 30 million households (26% of the U.S. 115+ million households) which may present a significant challenge for companies like Netflix, Hulu and Apple to compete…or maybe not. Perhaps Congress and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will get involved…but maybe not.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins, Phil Wilson and Julio Ojeda-Zapata (site; tech column; twitter).
Music: Easy by Life Has Teeth. Brought to us by Music Alley

The Podcast
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Podcast: Download (Duration: 1:09:59 — 40.7MB)

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Discussed During the Show

Past Week’s Minnesota Stories

  • Minnedemo recap
  • Cafe, Inc. grand opening
  • Sen. Al Franken asks Google Glass developer to limit scope of facial recognition app
  • Target Warned of Vulnerabilities Before Data Breach
  • Netflix & Comcast
    • Netflix members who use Comcast face streaming hiccups
    • Sleeper Issue Peers Around the Corner of Comcast-Time Warner Deal
    • Netflix’s Streaming Quality Is Based On Business Decisions by Netflix & ISPs, Not Net Neutrality

 Past Week’s Other Big Stories

  • Comcast/Time Warner Deal
    • Comcast, Time Warner agree to merge in $45 billion deal
    • Comcast-Time Warner deal has some history in the Twin Cities
    • Why the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger Is Even Worse Than You Think
    • The 50+ Best Tweets About the Comcast-Time Warner Cable Merger
    • Yes, You Will Probably Get Screwed If The Comcast-Time Warner Deal Goes Through
    • Apple needs Time-Warner Cable more than does Comcast
    • There’s something rotten in the state of video streaming, & the data is emerging
    • Apple in Talks to Revamp Set-Top Box
  • Microsoft
    • Strange bedfellows: Microsoft could bring Android apps to Windows
    • Microsoft Office on iPad: It’s alive and coming sooner than most think
  • Nokia Releasing First Android Phone
  • 28 Days of Fame: The Strange, True Story of ‘Flappy Bird’
  • Airtame & Chromecast
    • Airtame
      • Airtame’s wildly successful Indigogo fundraiser
    • Chromecast
    • Airstream
      • Airstream app for Android
      • Airstream app for iOS
      • Install the Airstream desktop client for PC, Mac & Windows
    • Watch out Chromecast, Airtame is coming with better features 

Upcoming Events

  • INVESTyR’s Fundraising in the Digital Economy 1st Tue of each month 3:30-4:30pm
  • TiE MN Chapter – 4th Annual Entrepreneurs Workshop – Wednesday, February 19th
  • CoCo Google Happy Hour and Pitch Event February 21st
  • SMBMSP #63 Behind the Firewall: Social Networking for Employee Collaboration, February 21st
  • Capitol Code: An Open Data Jam • February 22nd
  • She’s Geeky-Minneapolis – February 22-23, Central Library
  • Mobile March – March 20th – Tickets on sale now!

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Minnebar

Minnov8 Gang 212 – TV Disruption Disrupted?

April 13, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Lots of tech topics to discuss this week but we focus a bit on Aereo, a television startup that holds the promise of lowering costs and increasing access to TV, and the company also just won a major victory.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Tuckassee Train from Charlie Crowe. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show…

  • Minnebar (the sessions held)
  • Heroic, Inc.
    • Schafer: Minneapolis start-up hopes to tap power of referrals
    • Angie’s List
    • Patch
  • Tablets in Education
    • Tablets are transforming learning in many west metro classrooms
    • iPad Top 100 Deployments (includes education ones)
  • Aereo
    • New Threat to Aereo TV
    • Comcast gets 63% of revenue from cable TV
  • The New Résumé
    • The New Résumé: It’s 140 Characters
    • A guy did this cool Amazon-like résumé
    • LinkedIn Elicits Gasps, Cheers For Talent-Spotting Algorithms
  • What’s with all these new music services?
    • Spotify
    • RDIO
    • Twitter Music Is Here Today, and You Can’t Use It 
    • Pandora with friends: Turntable launches Piki
    • Apple and Universal Music agreement on streaming iRadio
  • Apple News Roundup
    • T-Mobile USA Sweetens iPhone 5 Deal With Trade-In Program 
    • T-Mobile: First day for Apple’s iPhone was ‘gangbusters’
    • Yahoo, Apple Discuss Deeper iPhone Partnership
    • Production Challenges to ‘Delay’ Launches of iPhone 5S, Lower-Cost iPhone and New iPad Mini? 
  • Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
    • Global Brute Force Attacks Build WordPress Botnet
      • Easy fix – delete (or never use) the default admin username!
      • Geek fix
    • Plugin fix:
      • Limit Login Attempts 
      • Wordfence
  • Others
    • Facebook Home available to download on select Android devices
    • Amazing things to do with a Raspberry Pi
    • Meet northern Minnesota’s top celebrity interviewer: Shawn “Franky” Slawson

Upcoming Events…

  • MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
  • 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013
  • Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
  • MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM
  • WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
  • Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
  • MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  • EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, iPad, Minnebar

Minnov8 Gang 210 – The Internet is Broken?

March 30, 2013 By Steve Borsch


Steve returns to The Gang after 3 weeks and Phil is spring breaking but three of us dissect the top stories of the week including Best Buy’s founder returning, did hackers really break the internet last week and T-Mobile’s aggressive announcements.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Graeme Thickins (Phil Wilson is off this week).

Music: Dangerous Things from George Fletcher’s Bourbon Renewal/The Tequila Mockingbirds. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show…

  • Best Buy
    • Best Buy, RedLaser partner on mobile app strategy
    • Founder Richard Schulze rejoins Best Buy as chairman emeritus
    • Expect Hubert Joly to Lose His Job at Best Buy
    • Losers Return to Best Buy to Oversee Second Death Spiral
  • Did the internet break last week?
    • The DDoS That Almost Broke the Internet
    • That Internet War Apocalypse Is a Lie
    • When spammers go to war: Behind the Spamhaus DDoS
  • Steve’s Security Tip of The Week
    • Anatomy of the Apple ID password reset exploit
    • Password denied: when will Apple get serious about security?
  • T-Mobile
    • T-Mobile’s UnCarrier event roundup
    • We Did The Math, And It Turns Out The T-Mobile iPhone 5 Could Save You A Bunch Of Money
  • Facebook phone?
    • Facebook To Reveal “Home On Android”
    • Facebook’s Home On Android Could Give You A Sixth Sense For Your Social Life
  • Others
    • Game Developer’s Conference
    • Minnesota Cup Commences Ninth Annual Competition
    • Yahoo Paid $30 Million in Cash for 18 Months of Young Summly Entrepreneur’s Time
    • Is It Real? With New Technology Has Activision Crossed The ‘Uncanny Valley’?
    • SendInc
    • Clayton Christensen, Harvard Business School
    • Mike Elgan, tech writer

Upcoming Events…

  • WordPress MSP, Thursday, March 28 at The Nerdery
  • MinneBar 8, Saturday April 6, 9-5pm, Best Buy Headquarters
  • 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference, April 11, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013, Hilton Minneapolis
  • Minne-Fair / Maker and DIY Exposition, April 13, 2013 – Sunday, April 14, 2013
  • MinneWebCon, April 15, 2013 at 8:00 AM – April 16, 2013 at 4:30 PM, U of M Continuing Education & Conference Center
  • WordCamp MSP, April 27, 2013 – Sunday, April 28, 2013
  • Twin Cities Code Camp 14, April 27, 2013
  • Midwest Mobile Summit, downtown Fargo, ND, April 28-29
  • MHTA’s Spring Conference, April 30 at the Minneapolis Convention Center
  • EyeO Festival, June 5-8, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, Best Buy, cloud computing, Minnebar, NativeX

Minnov8 Gang 203 – No Pebble for You

February 9, 2013 By Steve Borsch

Will the Pebble Watch ever ship? It is now…but just not to Phil. The rest of the Gang yucks it up at his expense but we’re mostly serious as we explore the big stories this past week.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: Super Ant Monster by The Dead Rocks. From the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show…

  • Java Meetup 612 (JMU612) on Twitter
  • Digital River swings to 4Q loss on goodwill charge, will return to core services 
  • Best Buy
    • Best Buy’s Joly to keynote MHTA Spring Conference
    • Amy Poehler tries to seduce Best Buy boys in Super Bowl
  • Forbes Ranks Code 42 #53 “Most Promising”
  • Adobe Issues Emergency Flash Update for Attacks on Windows, Mac Users
    • Adobe Flash Player direct download 
  • Ouya
    • Ouya enters the console war, launching in June
    • Ouya founder promises new $99 console every year
  • Google Updates Hangouts (bandwidth control & audio)
  • WebRTC ‘conversation’ between Chrome and Firefox (about WebRTC)
  • Ex-Apple designer explains why it’s just a matter of time for the iWatch
  • FreedomPop Plans ‘LTE Clip’ To Give Free LTE To iPad, Android Tablets

Upcoming Events…

  • Weekly: TechMasters – a Tech Toastmasters chapter
  • Wednesday, February 20th: Google for Entrepreneurs Day @CoCo Minneapolis (sold out)
  • Thursday, February 21st: Tie MN Startup Showcase Evening, 6:30-8:45pm
  • Sat/Sun March 2-3rd: Midwest PHP Conference
  • Sat/Sun March 9-10: Overnight Web Challenge
  • Thursday, March 21st: Mobile March 2013
  • Thursday, March 21st: TechFuse
  • Saturday, April 6th: Minnebar 9-5pm, Best Buy HQ
  • Tuesday, April 30th: MHTA’s Spring Conference
  • Wed-Sat, June 5-8: EyeO Festival, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Android, Apple, Best Buy, Google, Minnebar

Minnov8 Gang 164 – One BILLION dollars!?!

April 14, 2012 By Steve Borsch

Lots of surprising news this week with the resignation of Best Buy CEO and allegations of improprieties along with the jaw-dropping valuation of Instagram as acquired by Facebook.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: “Johnnys Deathray Boogie” by Johnny Nicholas from the podsafe Music Alley

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The Podcast
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Guest Segment: We were pleased to have on the always delightful and incredibly mobile knowledgeable Lisa Foote, CEO and Co-Founder of MixMobi (Twitter)

Discussed during the show:

  • Best Buy’s Brian Dunn out: Best Buy: Dunn Is Done; Is The Retailer Doomed, Too? and Why Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn Had To Quit and Best Buy: CEO Brian Dunn resigns over ‘personal conduct’ issue and Cringley’s article on why Best Buy is Doomed
  • Is Instagram Really Worth $1B? Really? Facebook and Instagram: Made for Each Other and Insta-rich: How Instagram became a $1-billion company in 18 months and Instagram and Facebook: the next tech bubble?
  • Does Windows Phone Have Any Chance Of Market Traction? Nokia, AT&T launch the Lumia 900 amid few lines, strong buzz and Windows Phone will only account for 2% of app downloads in 2012, firm says
  • 11 Startups That Could Get Bought For $1 Billion Tomorrow
  • Apple’s New WYSIWYG App Development Tool for iOS? Will Apple’s patent granted Thursday enable app development for the masses? 
  • Minnebar 2012 sessions
  • Jason Calcanis post about Apple as trillion dollar company due to payments
  • Tim Elliott’s team (Full Court WordPress) non-profit site built during the Overnight Website Challenge: New site; Old site

Upcoming Events:

  • April (various dates): dSchool at CoCo
  • April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
  • April 21st: SaaS Class: Software-as-a-Service Smarts (SaaS Camp 2012) at CoCo Mpls
  • April 25th: MSP WordPress User Group Meeting at 7pm, The Nerdery
  • April 25th: MHTA Spring Conference, Minneapolis Convention Center
  • May 21st: Predictive Analytics Forum, Medtronic’s Mounds View Campus
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center
  • Weekly: TechMasters is a new Toastmasters chapter in Twin Cities for tech professionals

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Apple, Best Buy, Minnebar

Minnebar 2012: Tech Geek-Out!

April 8, 2012 By Graeme Thickins

Minnesota’s annual barcamp un-conference, aka Minnebar, returned for a seventh consecutive year on Saturday, April 7, and it was a blockbuster! Held again at Best Buy’s corporate headquarters in Richfield, the event attracted some 1300, the most in its history.

It just keeps getting bigger and bigger — and better!  A pre-party the night before was a new, fun twist this year, held at Vic’s, across the river from Downtown Minneapolis.  On Saturday, some 60 breakout sessions provided a wide array of learning and sharing experiences, along with awesome hallway discussions that were in full swing all day long — from 8:00 am all the way through the closing reception well after 6:00 pm.

Kudos to organizers Ben Edwards, Luke Francl, and Adrienne Peirce of Minnestar.org, and their many volunteers who work so hard to make this event successful. And thanks to all the great sponsors: Code42 Software, Fredrikson & Byron, 8th Bridge, W3i, ipHouse, August Ash, Bloom Health, Barcamp Tour, Split Rock Partners, ChowGirls, and Ech03.

It seems I say this every year, but it’s true (I’ve attended the last six annual events in their entirety):  the level of energy and enthusiasm about Minnesota Tech was more than I’ve ever experienced!  You can just sense the growth and excitement in our tech community. And, if you’re like me, you keep meeting so many more new and amazing people — technology and business professionals who are contributing to great new startups here in Minnesota, as well as to the broader technology industry in our state.  It was a pleasure to behold.  I had so many excellent conversations, trust me — there isn’t enough room in this blog post to tell you about them all <haha>.

But I can show you pics I shot Friday night and all day Saturday, which I posted on Instagram. Here’s a selection of those pics that I put into a Minnebar 2012 Flickr set.

Filed Under: Events, MN Entrepreneurs, Tech Investors Tagged With: angels, Best Buy, funding, Minnebar

Minnov8 Gang 159 – Social Chatter

March 3, 2012 By Steve Borsch

Marty Wetherall

Social media ‘chatter’ seems to be growing exponentially and the services capitalizing upon it are being launched, or accelerated, by the week. Marty Wetherall, Director of Innovation at Fallon and co-founder of Fanchatter, joins us to talk about what’s happening with his startup and about the growth of social chatter overall.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson
Music: Mario Tomic & the song “Blue Note” from the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Discussed during the show:

  • Project Skyway’s new class of entrepreneurs
  • Google: I’m Being Followed and Keeping Google From Watching Your Searches
  • Mobile World Congress
  • Introducing Windows 8 Consumer Preview 
  • Facebook introduces Premium: A marketer’s dream, a user’s nightmare?
  • iPad: New, faster Apple iPad expected next week and Apple expected to unveil 16GB and 32GB iPad 3 as well as 8GB iPad 2 and Apple likely to begin production of 7.85-inch iPads in 3Q12 and Channels as apps? How Apple could reinvent television
  • Fanchatter has ‘chat’ at the Lady Gaga & Oprah event at Harvard 
  • Bruce Springsteen Online Listening Party
  • Startup Bus to SXSW and CNN on Tech Trends at SXSW
  • MN Council of Non-Profits Tech & Comm event (PDF)

Upcoming Events:

  • March 16-17: MobileMarchTC; Mobile March (Mobile 3D); NEW! The Agenda
  • March 24-25: Overnight Website Challenge by The Nerdery
  • April 7th: MinneBar, Best Buy headquarters
  • April 16-17: MinneWebCon at the U of MN
  • June 5-8: eyeo Festival, Walker Art Center

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Apple, Google, iPad, Minnebar, MinneDemo

Minnov8 Gang 122 – Crashing is Not an Option

May 7, 2011 By Steve Borsch

MinneBar was in full swing at Best Buy’s Headquarters and the Gang was delighted to have a chance to talk with Matthew Dornquast, CEO of Code 42 Software (makers of the worldwide acclaimed backup service, CrashPlan) about his firm, its background and growth and, revealed publicly for the first time to Minnov8, their merger with mobile software group Recursive Awesome about to be announced publicly.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott, Graeme Thickins and Phil Wilson.
Music: LA Big Daddy is the artist & the song is “Him Number 100” via the podsafe Music Alley.

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The Podcast
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Note: The Minnov8 Gang would like to express our appreciation for the incredible work of Ben Edwards and Luke Francl of minne* for setting up the country’s largest barcamp, MinneBar, and for their tireless efforts on behalf of the startup community. Additional thanks go to the sponsors of this great event without whom it wouldn’t have happened.

One person that deserves significant praise for his nurturing of the startup community in Minnesota—and who has been willing to make available the best possible venue one could hope for with an event like MinneBar or others held at Best Buy’s headquarters—is Best Buy CTO, Robert Stephens.

Filed Under: Minnov8 Gang Podcast Tagged With: Minnebar

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