‘Entrepreneurship’ Archives
Tech Entrepreneurs In Rural Markets Speak Out
Many of my closest friends in the Twin Cities metro tech community ask me for my perspective of what it is like to build a tech business in greater Minnesota. Founding W3i eleven years ago in St. Cloud has certainly had its advantages and disadvantages. Rather than answering this question solely based on my experiences alone, I interviewed [...]
How To Create Hit Apps: Interview with Mike Lee, Co-founder, Tapulous
Ever wonder how a blockbuster app developer thinks? Recently, I caught up with Mike Lee, co-founder of Tapulous, to get his inside perspective on what is the recipe for a developer to create a blockbuster app. As virtually everyone knows, Tapulous is the developer that brought us the hit game Tap Tap Revenge, a series that has seen more than 25 [...]
Copper Wire (Joke)
After having dug to a depth of 10 feet last year, New York scientists found traces of copper wire dating back 100 years, and came to the conclusion that their ancestors already had a telephone network more than 100 years ago. Not to be outdone by the New Yorkers, in the weeks that followed, a California archaeologist dug to a depth of 20 [...]
How to Build an App Startup in a Weekend
This past Saturday, I had the opportunity to spend a couple of hours with the folks participating in the Twin Cities Startup Weekend at CoCo MSP. The Startup Weekend event organized by Shane Reiser had over 100 participants, which formed into 12 different teams with the task of creating a start-up in a weekend. I arrived while the teams were [...]
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 [...]
Twin Cities Young Entrepreneur Award Pictures
About a week ago on Twitter I posted a link to a picture I took of Daren Cotter (Cotterweb founder), Ryan Weber, and myself with the new Minnesota Timberwolves head coach Kurt Rambis as a part of the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal's Young Entrepreneur Award event. The Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal posted quite a few more [...]
