Over two non-stop days, a number of Minnesota tech entrepreneurs are commingling with accredited investors at the RAIN Maker’s Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota.
Hosted by RAIN Source Capital, the theme of this year’s 7th annual gathering is focus—where to expend capital and time to maximize future returns. Richard Sudek, Chairman of Tech Coast Angels gave Thursday’s keynote and Keith Kegley from the XPrize Foundation delivered Friday’s closing remarks. Five Minnesota technology start-ups are exhibiting at the event, in alphabetical order:
MixMobi, a technology platform that allows retailers to easily create mobile coupons and offers, announced this week a partnership with Amdocs, a $3 billion global telecommunications services provider.
Amdocs, which operates in 60 countries, develops and implements business- and operational-support systems surrounding “customer experience” touch points (billing, CRM, ordering, digital content delivery, etc.) for global companies. MixMobi will be the mobile coupon partner for a new mobile developers’ “hub” being created by Amdocs. The Hub will reportedly allow developers to write their applications once and deploy them on over 700 devices, as well as access in-app carrier monetization, meaning that application developers will have the ability to sell products through their apps but the billing will be passed on to the customer via the customer’s mobile phone bill.
On Wednesday, September 29th, around 300 developers from Minnesota and beyond will rally at the Sheraton Hotel in Bloomington for the fifth annual Minnesota Developers Conference (MDC).
Described as “the largest independent software and interactive developers conference in the Midwest,” the event is known for its emphasis on Microsoft technologies. From Silverlight to Smart Phone, a total of twenty unique tracks led by a diverse mix of speakers and a keynote from author and creator of CSLA.NET Rockford Lhotka are planned for this years gathering.
By Samuel Axon, Mashable
“Name: MixMobi
Quick Pitch: MixMobi provides easy, fast, realtime, graphics-rich promotions for any social media, SMS or email campaign, reaching all web-enabled mobiles.
Genius Idea: MixMobi lets you create graphical coupons then send them out to your customers’ mobile phones. You don’t need any programming or advanced design skills to make it happen.”
By Howard Wilcox, Juniper Research
“I was alerted recently to MixMobi, which is a new technology platform offer to retailers who want to create their own coupons and offers. Why’s it interesting? Well for several reasons. It ticks a lot of boxes for success in mobile marketing.”
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