Minneapolis Operations Technology 
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 11, 2023
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.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 13, 2011
The 54 companies in the study operated product and service businesses, had been in business on average 9.6 Some of them, such as Eyebobs in Minneapolis, Trilogy Health Services in Kentucky, Defender Direct in Indianapolis, SecureWorks in Atlanta, and Mellace Family Brands in California, were well-known companies.
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Startup Lessons Learned
AUGUST 20, 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota: Cars line up at a drive-thru food pantry. We also invested time in building out a set of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) for restaurant partners to use and reference as they worked with HelpKitchen. We could not have done this without you all!
Austin Startup
OCTOBER 12, 2017
They are experimenting with biometric facial recognition technology and it’s easy to see why. The technology has many advantages over traditional “flash pass” ID verification. Now, a new project called Biometric Exit is ready to bring that same technology to every international airport in America. So how does it work?
VC Adventure
FEBRUARY 1, 2010
My longtime friend Marion Jenkins, CEO of IT consultant QSE Technologies wrote what I think is one of the most eloquent and well thought out rebuttals to the proposed Colorado “Software Tax” (HB 1192). I run an 8-year old information technology company in Englewood, QSE Technologies, Inc.
David Teten
JANUARY 21, 2021
According to a recent interview with Founding Partner Andrew Oved, Reformation invests in SaaS (vertical and application software) and consumer product businesses that have achieved $1M-$5M in annualized revenue, while operating capital efficiently. 20% initial ownership. One third of them are growing over 50% y-o-y. —– TinySeed.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2014
But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. I liked meeting people, hearing the company plans, learning about their technology, figuring out if it was for real—all that was fun. We brought in all operating guys—all had done startups, all had technical backgrounds.
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