Tag Archives: community
Minneapolis startup unites athletes and adrenaline junkies
With almost 50 millions users, Pinterest has carved out a sizable niche in the corner of the social media playground. Yet with an overwhelming majority of pinboards dedicated to food and drink recipes, DIY crafts, apparel, and home decor, it’s …
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Minneapolis welcomes National Day of Civic Hacking
The National Day of Civic Hacking is a countrywide event that aims to unite citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs alike. The goal? “To collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant …
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Healthcare just got Better
Most people have experienced at least one of those Murphy’s Law health scenarios, when anything that can go wrong with your body, does go wrong — at the worst time possible. These untimely ordeals seem to conveniently crop up amidst …
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Things We Love: Litterati
Litterati, as its website so eloquently describes it, is at the intersection of “technology, social awareness and art.” If that sounds pretentious or lofty, hold your criticism for a moment and continue reading. Founded by entrepreneur Jeff Kirschner, Litterati is …
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A meet and greet with Justin McKinley
An undeniable perk of working in the advertising and marketing fields is the breadth of expertise we’ve encountered in the people around us on a daily basis. And make no mistake about it, Minnesota’s got talent. Last week we had …
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Three challenges faced by entrepreneurs and startups
A few weeks ago, we had the pleasure of packing our bags and heading west for SearchFest 2013, an all-day search marketing and social media extravaganza in Portland, OR. From dusk till dawn, we had the opportunity to listen to an …
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Three Kickstarter-funded films snag Oscar nods
To say that 2012 was a good year for Kickstarter would be a massive understatement. Towards the end of the year, Kickstarter made an instantly profitable expansion to the UK, collecting over 2 million in contribution in under a month. …
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Avis buys into ride-sharing with Zipcar
In October we took a look at the ride-sharing startup SideCar, which has found an increasingly lucrative niche in its hometown of San Francisco, where there aren’t enough taxicabs to meet demand. Several other similar startups have found success across the …
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How social media is used around the globe
Last week, the Pew Research Center published an extensive survey detailing how, and for what purposes, social media is used throughout the world. Of the 21 countries involved in the study, Pew reports majorities in 17 countries use their social …
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Copywriting, translation and proofreading meet crowdsourcing
Imagine sourcing out all of your copywriting, translation, and proofreading needs to qualified, professional contractors. Once the requirements for the content have been met, the contractors would be paid per word. Sounds pretty appealing, right? Well that is essentially the …
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