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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

Minneapolis/St. Just as Silicon Valley’s roots can be traced to innovation in World War II so can Minneapolis/St. Why Minneapolis/St. Serendipity came to Minneapolis-St. Parker was a ex Naval Academy graduate and a Minneapolis businessman who owned a glider manufacturing company and was well connected in Washington.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank.

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It's time for lean philanthropy: a case study

Startup Lessons Learned

Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. We’re hopeful that by sharing our story, others in the tech and philanthropic world can get some ideas for ways they can use lean principles to help their communities through this trying time. After just four weeks, we were serving nearly 20k meals a week.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: ThriftyWrench.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Though ThriftyWrench is only available in western Wisconsin currently, they are hoping to expand into the Minneapolis-St. We’ve spend countless hours screening and surveying repair shops in the Minneapolis-St. We chose to use crowdSPRING because we wanted a diversity of design ideas from the creative community.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

The overall culture in Austin is renowned for its supportiveness of the small business community. The celebration for its unique culture and flourishing business community is very appealing, and many new startups are flocking to the city to embrace it as their own. Boulder, CO. The companies out here, they’re rooting for each other.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

Techstars Retail, in partnership with Target (Minneapolis). These programs don’t run in isolation – rather they are part of a horizontal scaling strategy based on a premise that you can build startups, and a startup community, anywhere in the world. Techstars IoT (NYC). Barclays (New York, South Africa and Israel).

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

His work on VC and small communities can be found at greatercolorado.vc/blog. GCVF specializes in providing critical support to founders based in small communities, while connecting them to an unfair network well-beyond their small-town headquarters. . (co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund.

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