80’S TUESDAY: Let’s Go Crazy by Prince - Minneapolis is the capital of Rock ‘N Roll. Prince Let's Go Crazy Purple Rain rock pop R&B Minneapolis Minnesota 80's TuesdayA bit extreme you think? It would not be if this was 1984 when the once relevant Village Voice named Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade, The Replacements’ Let It Be, and Prince’s Purple Rain as three of their top ten albums of the year in the Pazz and Jop critics poll. MORE
It was actually with much of this in mind that I asked Brad to join me on a trip to Minneapolis. I’ve long had a love for the Twin Cities (I went to college there and have been on the LeadPages board now for several years in Minneapolis). MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It''s a block party in Minnesota MORE
On Tuesday 8/23, my partner Seth will be doing a Q&A with me at Beta.MN at the Target Plaza Commons in Minneapolis from 5pm – 8:30pm. The post Seth Asks Me Difficult Questions in Minneapolis appeared first on Feld Thoughts. He refuses to discuss anything about the questions he’s going to ask in advance, so I expect it will be spicy. Announcements MORE
I’m in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. It’s two full days of immersion in the Minneapolis startup community. Venture Capital Entrepreneurship minneapolis TechstarsWe had a meeting at Best Buy headquarters, met with a gang from the Mayo Clinic who drove up from Rochester, spent the afternoon at the Techstars Retail Accelerator which is at Target headquarters, and had dinner with Revolar. MORE
While roughly 33% of our investments continue to be in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and a third city to be named in a week or so) and 33% of our investments are in Colorado (primarily Boulder and Denver), we have developed deep networks in many different cities, including Boston, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis through the other 33% of the investments we’ve made. MORE
Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. MORE
Kristi Piehl, founder and CEO of Media Minefield, a communications firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has a great example of how to do this. 2015 is here, and you’ve got plans for your business. MORE
At a small startup in Minneapolis, I tended to focus mostly on my own paycheck and benefits , my level of management, and whether the job was satisfying enough compared with other options. No one likes to work with a high-maintenance jerk, especially when that jerk is the boss. MORE
Minneapolis-based Foodsby's revolutionary approach to food delivery is making office workers, restaurants, and commercial real estate firms very, very happy. MORE
Minneapolis, MN - 162 Market Street. Sphero is now available in some Brookstone stores around the US. There’s a handy map on the Sphero site and I’ll include a list at the bottom of this post. Occasionally one of you, dear blog reader, will ask if you can do anything for me. MORE
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Star Lotulelei is out for the second straight game with an ankle injury MORE
When I reflect on where some of our investments are, they are in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Boulder, Denver, Charlotte, Lexington, New York, and Boston. MORE
MINNEAPOLIS — There’s cold. And then there’s subzero, frostbite cold MORE
Fast forward a few months and many more meetings in Minneapolis. You can imagine the scene in the board room. The CEO of our portfolio company, Techforward , is discussing a “make the company opportunity" -- Best Buy wants us to to power their nation-wide buyback program. And Best Buy is talking about launching it with a Super Bowl commercial! MORE
This year we’ll be taking the event to four cities – Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and New York. My friend Bobby has a great new blog , and he recently posted, It Has to be Big , which really got me thinking, I’m definitely at a point where, if I’m going to get involved in something, I want it to have the potential to be BIG. To make an impact. To change someone’s life for the better. MORE
Techstars Retail, in partnership with Target (Minneapolis). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer. MORE
Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Berkeley). The post What Does Tijuana and Minneapolis Have In Common? My Investments 3d robotics DevOps leadpages minneapolis tijuana victorops We believe great companies can be created anywhere. MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It's a bar that serves nothing but tap water. For free MORE
Denver, Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco topped the list of 30, while San Diego, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Riverside, California, and Detroit rounded out the bottom five. Here are the top five locales for a sweet small business gig according to a new report by CardHub. MORE
And get this, our event this weekend is the first of four this year (Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York)! I’m boarding a flight in a few hours to Boston, where we will be holding the fourth 48in48 event! I can barely believe we’ve held three of these events already (Atlanta in 2015, and New York + Atlanta in 2016). Each of our events – where we bring 250+ web designers and developers together to build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours – brings $1.5 MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kemba Walker scored 30 points and the Charlotte Hornets blitzed the Minnesota Timberwolves in the third quarter on their way to a 115-108 victory on Tuesday night MORE
Minneapolis created an incubation centre that drew investment from Google’s Eric Schmidt. Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the world’s technology epicentre. The success of this technology hub has continued to influence global innovators around the world. MORE
CoCo , for example, is a 16,000-square-foot, sunlit space that makes use of the architecturally-interesting and historic trading floor once used by the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt even turned up recently in Minneapolis to check it out and talk with start-ups there. MORE
Yesterday I gave two talks in Minneapolis. I’ll start with my bias – I’m very optimistic about the superintelligence. One was to an internal group of Target employees around innovation. In the other, I was interviewed by my partner Seth (for the first time), which was fun since he’s known me for 16 years and could ask unique questions given our shared experiences. MORE
In the example below, we used the Advanced Search function to find Facilities Managers for Medical Offices in the Minneapolis/St. How to Be Strategic Using LinkedIn To Generate Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing. MORE
Minneapolis, MN · [link]. The first cavewoman (or caveman) to open her mouth and utter an intelligible word changed the game for the local tribe. After some time, humans gained the power of language, and eventually, figured out how to write things down. MORE
But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. I met Kathryn Gould longer ago than either of us want to admit. MORE
Minneapolis-based chiropractor and yoga and pilates instructor Martha DeSante suggests getting your hands on an adult-sized hula-hoop, finding a spot where you won't break anything, and hooping in both directions "to bring more balance to your body and brain," she says. MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns and Tyus Jones have arrived in Minnesota, and another important piece is soon to follow MORE
For years, Zachary Vex remained on the periphery of the Minneapolis music scene. Nowadays, though, some of the biggest rock stars in the world are lining up to buy his company''s effects pedals MORE
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MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets have acquired veteran point guard Mo Williams from the Minnesota Timberwolves for guard Gary Neal MORE
I start with a short one from when I was in Adelaide, then a longer one from Sydney, and wrap it up with what is one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done – this time in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. Technology adelaide feld interview levine minneapolis sydney MORE
Minneapolis The Doctor Is in: The Twin Cities make up a big hub of medical patents, leading in classes involving surgical tools, prosthetics, and bandages. Meet the 20 American cities that received the most patents in the last century. MORE
NEW YORK (AP) — The home-design retailer West Elm is taking its brand into the hotel industry, with plans for hotels in five cities: Detroit; Indianapolis; Minneapolis; Savannah, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina MORE
From Minneapolis to Duluth, you have to part with a significant amount of cash to finally get your license. Wherever you live, learning to drive is not cheap. MORE
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Morris scored a career-high 24 points as Minnesota defeated UNC Wilmington 108-82 on Saturday MORE
Kate lives and works in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. MORE
Michigan: Detroit Van Buren Minnesota: Minneapolis Missouri: Kirksville Montana: Bozeman Helena Missoula Pablo Nebraska: Lincoln Omaha Nevada: Las Vegas, /usr/lib, 520 Fremont St Las Vegas, CHSI Technologies, 770 Pilot Rd. One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere. MORE
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SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
Today we’ve announced that we’ve made new investments in LeadPages (a company in Minneapolis) and 3D Robotics (a company in Tijuana, San Diego, and Berkeley). The post What Does Tijuana and Minneapolis Have In Common? My Investments 3d robotics DevOps leadpages minneapolis tijuana victorops We believe great companies can be created anywhere.
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 17, 2016
On Tuesday 8/23, my partner Seth will be doing a Q&A with me at Beta.MN at the Target Plaza Commons in Minneapolis from 5pm – 8:30pm. The post Seth Asks Me Difficult Questions in Minneapolis appeared first on Feld Thoughts. He refuses to discuss anything about the questions he’s going to ask in advance, so I expect it will be spicy. Announcements
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 26, 2016
I start with a short one from when I was in Adelaide, then a longer one from Sydney, and wrap it up with what is one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever done – this time in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. Technology adelaide feld interview levine minneapolis sydney
Inc Startups
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Meet the rapid-growth companies dominating Minnesota''s bigger Twin City
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AUGUST 23, 2016
I’m in Minneapolis with my partner Seth. It’s two full days of immersion in the Minneapolis startup community. Venture Capital Entrepreneurship minneapolis TechstarsWe had a meeting at Best Buy headquarters, met with a gang from the Mayo Clinic who drove up from Rochester, spent the afternoon at the Techstars Retail Accelerator which is at Target headquarters, and had dinner with Revolar.
Mark Birch
JANUARY 22, 2013
80’S TUESDAY: Let’s Go Crazy by Prince - Minneapolis is the capital of Rock ‘N Roll. Prince Let's Go Crazy Purple Rain rock pop R&B Minneapolis Minnesota 80's TuesdayA bit extreme you think? It would not be if this was 1984 when the once relevant Village Voice named Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade, The Replacements’ Let It Be, and Prince’s Purple Rain as three of their top ten albums of the year in the Pazz and Jop critics poll.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
SEPTEMBER 1, 2016
Feld Thoughts
JULY 30, 2015
Each is roughly invested 1/3rd into companies in Colorado, 1/3rd into companies in the bay area, and 1/3rd into companies in the rest of the US (Boston, NY, Seattle, LA, Portland, Austin, Minneapolis, Washington D.C., Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P.
Jeff Hilimire
MAY 16, 2017
This year we’ll be taking the event to four cities – Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, and New York. My friend Bobby has a great new blog , and he recently posted, It Has to be Big , which really got me thinking, I’m definitely at a point where, if I’m going to get involved in something, I want it to have the potential to be BIG. To make an impact. To change someone’s life for the better.
Jeff Hilimire
JUNE 2, 2017
And get this, our event this weekend is the first of four this year (Boston, Minneapolis, Atlanta, New York)! I’m boarding a flight in a few hours to Boston, where we will be holding the fourth 48in48 event! I can barely believe we’ve held three of these events already (Atlanta in 2015, and New York + Atlanta in 2016). Each of our events – where we bring 250+ web designers and developers together to build 48 nonprofit websites in 48 hours – brings $1.5
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 29, 2016
When I reflect on where some of our investments are, they are in cities like Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Minneapolis, Boulder, Denver, Charlotte, Lexington, New York, and Boston.
Inc Startups
APRIL 13, 2015
For years, Zachary Vex remained on the periphery of the Minneapolis music scene. Nowadays, though, some of the biggest rock stars in the world are lining up to buy his company''s effects pedals
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 24, 2016
Yesterday I gave two talks in Minneapolis. I’ll start with my bias – I’m very optimistic about the superintelligence. One was to an internal group of Target employees around innovation. In the other, I was interviewed by my partner Seth (for the first time), which was fun since he’s known me for 16 years and could ask unique questions given our shared experiences.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 16, 2015
Techstars Retail, in partnership with Target (Minneapolis). There are two common ways to scale a system – horizontally or vertically. If you are a software engineer, you probably get this instinctively. If you don’t know what this is, let’s work with the simple Wikipedia definition which is pretty good. Scale Vertically (or “scale up”): Add resources to a single node in a system, typically involving the addition of CPUs or memory to a single computer.
Inc Startups
JUNE 4, 2013
Denver, Boston, Minneapolis, Seattle, and San Francisco topped the list of 30, while San Diego, Philadelphia, Sacramento, Riverside, California, and Detroit rounded out the bottom five. Here are the top five locales for a sweet small business gig according to a new report by CardHub.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
JANUARY 20, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Joseph Haj has a tough act to follow
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AUGUST 31, 2016
It was actually with much of this in mind that I asked Brad to join me on a trip to Minneapolis. I’ve long had a love for the Twin Cities (I went to college there and have been on the LeadPages board now for several years in Minneapolis).
Inc Startups
DECEMBER 11, 2011
CoCo , for example, is a 16,000-square-foot, sunlit space that makes use of the architecturally-interesting and historic trading floor once used by the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. Google Chairman Eric Schmidt even turned up recently in Minneapolis to check it out and talk with start-ups there.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — It''s a block party in Minnesota
Feld Thoughts
MAY 24, 2012
Minneapolis, MN - 162 Market Street. Sphero is now available in some Brookstone stores around the US. There’s a handy map on the Sphero site and I’ll include a list at the bottom of this post. Occasionally one of you, dear blog reader, will ask if you can do anything for me.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
DECEMBER 7, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Guthrie Theater is reporting a surplus for the fiscal year that saw the Minneapolis theater's first leadership change in 20 years
Up and Running
JANUARY 6, 2015
Kristi Piehl, founder and CEO of Media Minefield, a communications firm based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, has a great example of how to do this. 2015 is here, and you’ve got plans for your business.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 20, 2015
While roughly 33% of our investments continue to be in California (San Francisco, Los Angeles, and a third city to be named in a week or so) and 33% of our investments are in Colorado (primarily Boulder and Denver), we have developed deep networks in many different cities, including Boston, New York, Seattle, Portland, and Minneapolis through the other 33% of the investments we’ve made.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
At a small startup in Minneapolis, I tended to focus mostly on my own paycheck and benefits , my level of management, and whether the job was satisfying enough compared with other options. No one likes to work with a high-maintenance jerk, especially when that jerk is the boss.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
Minneapolis-based chiropractor and yoga and pilates instructor Martha DeSante suggests getting your hands on an adult-sized hula-hoop, finding a spot where you won't break anything, and hooping in both directions "to bring more balance to your body and brain," she says.
Redeye VC
DECEMBER 5, 2012
Fast forward a few months and many more meetings in Minneapolis. You can imagine the scene in the board room. The CEO of our portfolio company, Techforward , is discussing a “make the company opportunity" -- Best Buy wants us to to power their nation-wide buyback program. And Best Buy is talking about launching it with a Super Bowl commercial!
Duct Tape Marketing
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
In the example below, we used the Advanced Search function to find Facilities Managers for Medical Offices in the Minneapolis/St. How to Be Strategic Using LinkedIn To Generate Leads written by Guest Post read more at Duct Tape Marketing.
YoungUpstarts
DECEMBER 28, 2015
Minneapolis created an incubation centre that drew investment from Google’s Eric Schmidt. Silicon Valley is undoubtedly the world’s technology epicentre. The success of this technology hub has continued to influence global innovators around the world.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
JANUARY 5, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS — There’s cold. And then there’s subzero, frostbite cold
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
JUNE 26, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns and Tyus Jones have arrived in Minnesota, and another important piece is soon to follow
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
NOVEMBER 15, 2016
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Kemba Walker scored 30 points and the Charlotte Hornets blitzed the Minnesota Timberwolves in the third quarter on their way to a 115-108 victory on Tuesday night
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
OCTOBER 26, 2016
NEW YORK (AP) — The home-design retailer West Elm is taking its brand into the hotel industry, with plans for hotels in five cities: Detroit; Indianapolis; Minneapolis; Savannah, Georgia, and Charlotte, North Carolina
YoungUpstarts
MAY 24, 2017
From Minneapolis to Duluth, you have to part with a significant amount of cash to finally get your license. Wherever you live, learning to drive is not cheap.
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
FEBRUARY 10, 2015
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Charlotte Hornets have acquired veteran point guard Mo Williams from the Minnesota Timberwolves for guard Gary Neal
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
DECEMBER 27, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carlos Morris scored a career-high 24 points as Minnesota defeated UNC Wilmington 108-82 on Saturday
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Carolina Panthers defensive tackle Star Lotulelei is out for the second straight game with an ankle injury
Inc Startups
APRIL 1, 2014
Minneapolis The Doctor Is in: The Twin Cities make up a big hub of medical patents, leading in classes involving surgical tools, prosthetics, and bandages. Meet the 20 American cities that received the most patents in the last century.
Startup Lessons Learned
DECEMBER 1, 2012
Michigan: Detroit Van Buren Minnesota: Minneapolis Missouri: Kirksville Montana: Bozeman Helena Missoula Pablo Nebraska: Lincoln Omaha Nevada: Las Vegas, /usr/lib, 520 Fremont St Las Vegas, CHSI Technologies, 770 Pilot Rd. One of the most important things we do with The Lean Startup Conference is make a livestream of the plenary talks available for free to groups around the world, supporting entrepreneurship communities everywhere.
Blogtrepreneur | Entrepreneur Blog
JANUARY 3, 2013
Minneapolis, MN · [link]. The first cavewoman (or caveman) to open her mouth and utter an intelligible word changed the game for the local tribe. After some time, humans gained the power of language, and eventually, figured out how to write things down.
Steve Blank
AUGUST 5, 2014
But they weren’t really in Silicon Valley at the time—they were in Boston, Minneapolis, New York. I met Kathryn Gould longer ago than either of us want to admit.
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