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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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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

Both Sides of the Table

He tells the story of how he was out of cash, stressed out, nobody in LA or Silicon Valley would give him money, he had finally found an investor in Minneapolis but his venture bank was going to shut him down for breaking a “covenant&# in their agreement by not having enough cash in the bank. we both love Jason).

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The 5 Step Winning Website Formula

Duct Tape Marketing

Tim owns Hook Agency, a boutique digital agency out of Minneapolis. There are some key elements a website needs to have in order to convert visitors into paying clients or customers. He owns the hook agency, a boutique digital agency out of Minneapolis and specializes in combining visual design and SEO for construction companies.

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re talking with a firm that mostly only invests in the San Francisco Bay Area and you’re in Minnesota, you’re probably wasting your time for a seed or A round unless you find somebody at that firm who is from Minneapolis and comes home 2–3x / year already. The next pass is the “competitive pass”?—?have That is the firm qualification.

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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. I was in the group due to my involvement (with Brent Summers) in launching GiveLocal, a site where customers could support their favorite restaurants through COVID lockdowns by buying gift cards.

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Small Business Spotlight of the Week: ThriftyWrench.com

crowdSPRING Blog

Car repair services can sign up to have their name available on the site. 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. Until ThriftyWrench.com came along.

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Embracing Your Entrepreneurial Superpower Being Unemployable

Duct Tape Marketing

07:20] Can you name a particular instance in your career where you felt like “This is going to work, this is like what I should be doing”? [08:58] Does your superpower have a name? [10:00] Every year inbound brings together leaders across business, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and more.