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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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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.

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Scaling Techstars Horizontally

Feld Thoughts

But while many contemporary technology approaches embrace scale horizontally, many business approaches are limited to primarily scaling vertically. Techstars Retail, in partnership with Target (Minneapolis). These two concepts are not mutually exclusive. You can scale vertically and horizontally at the same time. Techstars IoT (NYC).

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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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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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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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Twitter Link Roundup #105 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Small business tips: mobile technology, the iPad, and your business - [link]. crowdSPRING’s 12 Questions interview – Meet Kate Casey (Minneapolis, MN, USA) - [link]. Mak wanted to symbolize Jobs’ lingering presence at Apple, even though Jobs is no longer around. I hope you enjoy these links!