“The Internet can be a daunting challenge for advertising firms. There are hundreds of blogs filled with praises and rants, widgets on websites bustling with tweets and mobile videos that can cloud a consumer’s perceptions about a company.
How does a business take back control of its own marketing message? Minneapolis- based Curation Station aims to address this problem.”
By John Reinan, MinnPost
“The great challenge of the Internet is coping with information overload. Never in human experience has so much information been available so effortlessly. The phones we carry in our pockets and purses are actually mini-computers with processing power that mainframe engineers of earlier generations could only dream of.
They link us to a web containing more than 125 million active sites and more than 25 billion pages of information. Meanwhile, companies are becoming publishers, offering their own branded content directly to consumers.”
Three Minnesota tech startups are one step closer to validation, cash money and a host of professional services as the Minnesota Cup announced today the 2010 High Tech division finalists.
Over the past two months, ten judges have reviewed the detailed plans of ten semifinalists and trimmed the list down to the three that will advance to the next stage — pitching the review board.
In no particular order, the 2010 Minnesota Cup High Tech division finalists are:
With the official media announcement just made, this link on the MN Cup website points us to not only the semifinalists within the tech division, but also some tech companies amongst the “general” and “student” categories.
Congratulations to all these ventures in passing the first test; with over 1,000 entries again this year – what a feat to make it this far!
Having a familiarity with many of these early-stage companies, no doubt the Tech Division is hyper-competitive and we look forward to meeting new faces so as to share their stories on behalf of the Minnesota tech community. Let’s take home the overall grand prize on behalf of Minnesota Tech (again)!
2010 Minnesota Cup Tech Division Semifinalists:
- CRAM Worldwide – Daren Klum
- Crick Information Technologies – Jason Caswell
- Curation Station – Jennifer Iwanicki
- Evolve - Adam Sellke
- GeaCom – Amanda Little
- InSight Solutions – Steve Johnson
- Mobile On Services – Scott Pearson
- Open Preferences – Robert Bodor
Update September 2010: Open Preferences is now Inveni. - Rushford Hypersonic – Daniel Fox
- VeraTech Aero – Dean Tangren
From the general division:
- MinuteBids – Jon Coudron
- Sportrabbit.com – Cale Loken
From the student division:
- Juxtapose – Owen Imholte
- HaulsMedia – Mackenzie Fletche
By Anna Pratt Special to Finance & Commerce
“Joseph Rueter’s answer to the “tsunami of information,” which he says has become a part of the human condition, particularly in regards to the Internet, is the Curation Station. Rueter bills the Web-based tech tool he created as “the most flexible digital content curation tool available.””
Other Minnesota Tech “movers” we’ve identified include:
ARAnet President Scott Severson [Scott Severson on the move]
Reeher Founder and President Andrew Reeher [Andrew Reeher on the move]
ID Insight Founder and President Adam Elliott [Adam Elliot on the move]
Wade Gerten from Alvenda
Mat Johnson from GeaCom
Steve Nielson from PartnerUp
Troy Peterson from Nibi Software
Zach Steven from Monkey Island
Anyone missing?
By Arundhati Parmar, Finance and Commerce
“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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