Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 5, 2020

This struggle pales in comparison to what the Black community is suffering through. We must educate ourselves on the systemic issues the Black community faces and has faced regularly. Statement linked here and outlined below: We are a community in pain. Black Lives Matter. Police reform and reparations are urgently needed.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

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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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 19, 2012

Olaf College students has set out to provide the surrounding Northfield community with a premature taste of summer. “ JonnyPops is a homegrown Minnesota company,” says Wray. They hope to rent a trailer to sell JonnyPops at the Minnesota State Fair, in addition to area zoos, museums, restaurants, and farmers’ markets.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 7, 2015

It serves 600 families per year living in the suburbs surrounding Minneapolis, Minnesota. Neighbors assists about 550-600 families per year through its food shelf, which serves seven communities in northern Dakota County in Minnesota. Who will you rely on for support in the community? How will food storage be handled?

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2014

So, Jason and I started talking more about things we could do to positively impact the Detroit startup community and looped the Techstars gang into the conversation. The local Detroit startup community engaged very powerfully in the idea. David Cohen, David Brown, and the team at Techstars grabbed it and ran with it.

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Steve Blank

JULY 23, 2014

These classroom innovations often remain effectively a secret – unknown to most STEM educators or the research community at large. Don then recruited Karl Smith from the University of Minnesota to pilot a class of 9 teams made up of STEM educators. What we had was a very slow classroom innovation diffusion rate.

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SiliconHills

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Austin-based HealthTronics this week announced it has acquired Plymouth, Minnesota-based HealthTech Solutions. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 8, 2020

Brent Wistrom edits the daily Austin Inno Beat email newsletter , which has emerged over the last five years as a must-read source of information for the city’s startup, entrepreneurial and investment communities The Forrest Files: August 6, 2020 Brent Wistrom is a senior editor at American Inno , overseeing half of Inno’s 14 markets.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 10, 2011

These cities tend to have strong business climates, but in particular they offer a strong community for startups - often, but not always, centered on universities. Image credits: Minnesota Historical Society (via Flickr ). Our " Never Mind the Valley " series has featured cities like Austin, London, Montreal, New York, and Boulder.

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crowdSPRING Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

She had this crazy idea that someone who had actually worked on the site, might provide value and insight to the community that we couldn’t give ourselves. Well, Audree was right – from her first days as our Community Liaison, she has provided help, comfort, advice and expertise to both Creatives and Buyers on the site.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A top communication coach and speaker, Roshini has become the go-to person for business executives, authors, athletes and politicos who want to make an impression — clients include the Minnesota Vikings, Wells Fargo, Great Clips, Boston Scientific, and Community Reinvestment Fund.

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Austin Startup

MAY 4, 2017

Many years ago I was sponsored by a small business owner in Minnesota who believed in me. As an organizer of a meetup group and a techie, I can sponsor underrepresented minorities by promoting them, their businesses, and their ideas with the rest of the Austin tech community.

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Austin Startup

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Spencer Cronk is the Minneapolis City Coordinator and previously served as Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Administration. ATA believes its essential for the next City Manager to leverage technology to help solve community challenges — and if you agree, let your Council Member know! Who are the six finalists?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Kate lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 23, 2010

If you need help or simply don’t have the time (it took us nearly 50 hours to name “crowdSPRING&# ), you can leverage crowdSPRING’s community of more than 64,000 designers and writers to come up with your company name or a product name. One great example is Minnesota Manufacturing and Mining. Avoid obscure words.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JULY 5, 2016

But I am also at a point in my life where it is of equal importance to find an opportunity that encourages my evolution as a man: moving out of my comfort zone to a new city and community which offers the greatest potential for my contribution and personal growth. Allen Iverson couldn’t share with anyone in Philadelphia.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Lewis lives and works in Prescott, Arizona.

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crowdSPRING Blog

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Ronald Nored, Butler University’s starting point guard and first-ever graduate of PGC to play in the 2010 NCAA Men’s Division 1 Finals and the 2010 WNBA second overall pick of the Minnesota Lynx, Monica Wright, are just two of PGC’s major success stories. We wanted to make sure that they had a voice in the new look and feel.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 10, 2014

If you’re trying to sell to a specific region, go to local festivals, gatherings, and any opportunity for you to mingle with community members and leaders. For example, if you own an ice cream shop in Duluth, Minnesota, when people search Google for “ice cream in Duluth,” you want to be the first result.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 6, 2015

blooms, relayed a resolution for 2015 that I think will resonate with a lot of people: donating time to give back to her community. Kristi Piehl, founder and CEO of Media Minefield, a communications firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has a great example of how to do this. Superhero Day at Media Minefield.

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Venture Chronicles

JULY 29, 2015

Focus on the local community: A dental practice is inherently local, it doesn’t matter what “Kim T. Palmer needs to reach out to his local community and focus on the collective values of the practice, the people who rely on it for jobs, and the many people who have been served (apparently he is an accomplished dentist).

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Duct Tape Marketing

AUGUST 10, 2017

Thomas in Minneapolis, in Minnesota. But I always like to give back to my community, and also I’ve learned a lot of my skills from the classes I learned in school as well. Even the SEO community is starting to find some really cool uses of it that I never even imagined. John J: You bet. So tell me about the professor part.

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Growthink Blog

JULY 20, 2013

My column last week, where I praised leaders that channeled legendary Green Bay Packers football coach Vince Lombardi’s “tough love” leadership approach, prompted a lot of responses - some nice, some not so nice (and not just from the Minnesota Vikings fans out there!). What are these?

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I went back to Minnesota full of longing for any kind of crepe to satiate my cravings. Yours truly was speech and debate captain in high school and got to go on some pretty amazing trips. Despite having a fine and broad array of traveling experience in high school, those crepes in Berkeley are probably the thing I look back at most fondly.

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ConversionXL

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Small retailers are the bedrock of our communities, and consumers will still choose to shop retail when the experience is worth it. Before the pandemic hit, Minnesota brand TC Running had two brick-and-mortar stores and zero ecommerce presence. A community connection, and as Troy Burch puts it, a much needed reminder of their WHY.

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The Startup Magazine

MARCH 13, 2020

Jay Hart , a retired 30-year veteran of the Florida police force, has spent the last decade helping communities push information to residents with his public safety focused MCALERT app. The app is a useful tool for connecting communities with important information quickly during emergency situations and community-wide events.

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www.foliomag.com

JULY 31, 2012

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crowdSPRING Blog

AUGUST 29, 2012

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. Connie lives and works in Northern Minnesota.

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online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

Journal Community. Journal Community. A community of WSJ readers interested in franchising news, trends and issues. Journal Community. Answers allows you to tap the knowledge of Community members. The language you used does not comply with community standards. Journal Community. Connecticut.

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Startup Lessons Learned

DECEMBER 1, 2012

One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. The number of hosts has grown annually, and this year, we have 200+ groups joining us on Monday, December 3.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Other cities like New York, Boston, Seattle, LA and Austin TX also have pretty strong startup communities. James Bellefeuille Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA [link] TwittLink – Your headlines on Twitter [.] To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley. James Bellefeuille I love tech Crunch. Finding Your Co-Founders [.]

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blog.expensify.com

APRIL 24, 2012

But I’ve seen some recent comments that this post might have upset and offended the SMB community that we serve, and that I cannot abide. In fact, the open source community can learn a lot from Microsoft in terms of backward compatibility and tools for productivity. same thing goes for the majority of the Java community).NET

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