‘Entrepreneurship’ Archives
How Can Minnesota Tech Be Better?
While attending Minnebar 2010, I spoke on a panel of tech entrepreneurs and investors to an audience of about 200 to 250 to discuss how Minnesota is doing in its quest to grow tech businesses. Check out the video of the panel discussion courtesy of TECHdotMN. Some of you app developers may recognize Dan Grigsby on the panel from the [...]
Advice to Fellow Tech Entrepreneurs on How to Land an Angel or VC
I’ve been on the bootstrapping, seed fundraising side of tech entrepreneurship as well as a tech angel investor over a dozen times. Most of my activity has been related to consumer app businesses, so I felt it would be appropriate to provide a link to this post I wrote for TECHdotMN on my “App Marketing Tips” blog as well. There is a little [...]
Minnebar 2009 Sets the Tone for Minnesota Start-ups
On November 21st over 600 developers and entrepreneurs got together to discuss what’s important to Minnesota tech start-ups. The halls that Best Buy legendary founder, Dick Schulze, built made for a great location for the next wave of Minnesota entrepreneurs to begin spreading their wings. Several Minnesota start-up thought leaders were on [...]
Trouncing the Recession like an Upstart!
The following two paragraphs were taken from an excellent post written by Donna Fenn. I highly recommend you pick up her book Upstarts! "Small business owners are typically an optimistic lot, even in the face of dismal economic conditions. But a recent American Express OPEN Small Business Monitor survey found that GenY entrepreneurs are more [...]