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High Five for April

May 1, 2013 | sourced No Comments

High Five 1) Avabar launches nightlife mobile app

2) TST Media closes on $6m third round, rebrands as Sport Ngin

3) Where’s Dick Schulze?

4) General Mills rocks Idea Weekend 2

5) Minneapolis B2B ecommerce firm has Insite

High Five for March

April 1, 2013 | sourced No Comments

High Five 1) New Minnesota startup opening doors

2) Edutech startup Naiku names new CEO, starts national expansion

3) AgileMedicine is NE Minneapolis’ latest HealthIT venture

4) SmartThings starts shipping

5) W3i changes name to NativeX, adds EA founder to advisory board

High Five for February

March 1, 2013 | sourced No Comments

Adventure Time 1) What does the Google / CoCo partnership mean for Minnesota tech?

2) Minnesota’s tech ventures raised over $145 million last year

3) The Omphalos opportunity

4) Proto Labs is Minnesota’s next billion dollar tech company

5) How TECHdotMN works – in short

High Five for January

February 1, 2013 | sourced No Comments

1) Beta Byte: Graspii

2) Emerging Minneapolis startup developing SaaS for physicians

3) Google going Grain in February

4) The Nerdery trims headcount

5) Entrepreneur 2 Entrepreneur: Chad Halvorson on partnerships

The top 10 from 2012

January 1, 2013 | sourced No Comments

1) MN Senators Franken and Klobuchar co-sponsoring controversial Internet censorship legislation

2) Minnesota’s fastest growing private tech companies from the 2012 Inc. 500 / 5000

3) Dear Minnesota Angel Investor

4) PreciouStatus wins the 2012 Minnesota Cup Grand Prize

5) Dear Minnesota Tech Entrepreneur

6) TECHdotMN TV 2.6: Headlines + Project Skyway announces 2nd cycle

7) Nifty Gifter wins Startup Weekend Twin Cities 4

8) Two Unicorns, One Moon crowned at this years Overnight Webchallenge

9) Kate Agnew is the new face of Girls in Tech Minneapolis – St. Paul

10) Co.lab opening doors for Duluth techies, and then some

High Five for November

December 1, 2012 | sourced No Comments

1) Nifty Gifter wins SWTC4

2) Agosto Wants ‘A Google Town’

3) Know This Nerd? Meet Cosmo Wolfe

4) Jingit raises $7m for paid engagement

5) BigDataMN is back

High Five for October

November 1, 2012 | sourced No Comments

1) General Mills fosters intrapreneurship with Idea Weekend

2) Why one startup left Minnesota

3) Minnesota Hustle: How Kidblog went from 0 to 2 million users

4) Uber quietly rolls out in the Twin Cities

5) nGage Health opens U.S. headquarters in Minneapolis

High Five for September

October 1, 2012 | sourced No Comments

1) PreciouStatus wins the 2012 Minnesota Cup Grand Prize

2) Startup Weekend returns to the Twin Cities

3) Thralow bros are North Shore tech tycoons

4) Minnesota tech inventor pursues breakthrough

5) Dundee on the hunt in Minnesota

High Five for August

September 1, 2012 | sourced No Comments

1) Minnesota’s fastest growing private tech companies from the 2012 Inc. 500 / 5000

2) SmartThings launches $250k Kickstarter campaign

3) PreciouStatus wins the 2012 Minnesota Cup High Tech Division

4) Startup CEO Darren Cox prematurely leaves U of M spinout CaSTT

5) ‘Less TechCrunch & more reality,’ says local angel investor

High Five for July

August 1, 2012 | by The TECHdotMN Team No Comments

1) New app keeps a pulse on all things precious

2) Minneapolis startup Clear.md launches global video content play

3) Minneapolis’ much anticipated Pedal Brain closing shop

4) Local attorney invents the ‘Moneyball’ of patent software

5) Minneapolis gaming startup ready to QONQR Kickstarter

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