Get to Know #3: Marti Nyman

February 8, 2010 | by Jeff Pesek No Comments

Marti Nyman is the Managing Partner and founder of Altavail Partners, LLC, a strategy, growth and innovation consulting practice based in Minneapolis, MN.  Mr. Nyman’s background as a senior business development executive includes over 20 years of successfully creating new growth opportunities for Fortune 500 companies across multiple industries (Energy, Telecommunications, Consumer Retail).  Marti has extensive expertise in strategy development, growth opportunity identification, new venture creation (M&A, Joint Ventures, Strategic Alliances) sales and territory management, operations, relationship development and business execution.

In addition to his work in helping companies develop leading innovation initiatives, he was recently named as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Gary S. Holmes School of Entrepreneurship at the University of Minnesota.  He has held leadership positions at GE, Ericsson, ADC Telecommunications and Best Buy.  Most recently, he responsible for the formation, launch and growth of Best Buy’s Venture Capital practice.

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By Randy Salas, Star Tribune

“Have you seen Aaron Kardell’s new baby? Thousands of iPhone users have.

No, not his 13-month-old son, Elijah, but the popular app that the little fella inspired.

Kardell said he had never been interested in garage sales until Elijah came along, but then the desire to get baby items cheaply kicked in.

“There are so many garage sale listings on Craigslist, though, and I didn’t want to take the time to scan through all of them,” he said. “But if I could do a quick search for maybe ‘baby toys’ and see within a 5-mile radius what sales were available, I thought that would be really useful to me.”"

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By Arundhati Parmar , Finance and Commerce

“Updated: Could there be an “easy button” for managing the sheer plethora of social media content?

Local developers of a new Web-based tool believe they have come up with one that will make the lives of corporate marketers and public affairs executives much easier.

Launched in late January, Curation Station LLC aims to automate the process of gathering and distributing social media content whether it is blogs, online video and audio, photos, Twitter feeds or just plain old news. Curation Station — the product and the company share the same name — was founded by some employees at Hello Viking, a Minneapolis marketing agency. Hello Viking is a reseller of Curation Station, which currently has a couple of customers using its product.”

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