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SaaS Camp

April 9, 2012 | By

dball

April 21
9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
CoCo Minneapolis

Come learn more about SaaS and network with fellow SaaSers. Ideal for practitioners building SaaS application, entrepreneurs running SaaS businesses, vendors & educators of SaaS.

Your instructor, Leif Larson, is CEO of Workface, a MN-based SaaS company with more than 110,000 users, and is arguably the most knowledgeable person in Minnesota on SaaS models.

Instructor’s statement:
“I think I can save SaaS-based businesses here in Minnesota a lot of time, energy, blow-ups, and money by sharing what I’ve learned growing my venture backed company and rubbing elbows with executives at some of the largest SaaS companies out there.

This is a serious class with a tuition cost of $199, which will help defray space, lunch and printing costs.

Instructor’s guarantee:
“If you are not satisfied that you have gained incredible knowledge, and your day was not worthwhile, we will issue a complete refund.”

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Mobile: Lessons from the Developing World

April 8, 2012 | By

cprins

Mobile: Lessons from the Developing World

A conversation with Ashoka Fellow Josh Nesbit of Medic Mobile
Wed., April 25
8 to 9:30 a.m.
CoCo Minneapolis

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We developed-world types too often focus on how smartphones and apps driving mobile innovation. But what if we had access to neither like in the developing world?

Josh Nesbit is driving mobile innovation in the developing world through smart use of SMS and cheap feature phones.

During a trip to rural Malawi in southeastern Africa, Nesbit saw patients walk 50 miles or more just to see a doctor. He also noticed that his cellphone got better reception in the tiny village of Namitete than it did in California. That realization led to an idea that evolved into a social venture: Medic Mobile.

Since then, Nesbit has been using cheap mobile phones to connect the developing world’s poor with remote medical professionals. He’s transforming the efficacy of decentralized rural public health by reinventing the role of community health workers. Medic Mobile supports a wide range of programs – from infectious disease surveillance in rural Malawi to emergency response after the 2010 earthquake in Haiti – in 15 countries across East and West Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

He drives dramatic innovation and change with the humble feature phone. For his efforts, he was recently named by Forbes as one of the world’s 30 Top Social Entrepreneurs and selected as an Ashoka Fellow.

Join us for an engaging conversation with Josh Nesbitt. Learn more about his innovative work. And see how innovations from the developing world can inspire us in our developed world.

This event is hosted in partnership with Ashoka Twin Cities.

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PopTech 2009 Social Innovation Fellow Josh Nesbit from PopTech on Vimeo.

Return of the Geospatial Revolution

March 16, 2012 | By

dball

Wednesday, March 28
6 to 9 p.m.
CoCo St. Paul

Last year, we screened parts 1 & 2 of The Geospatial Revolution, a series of film shorts by Penn State that describes how geospatial technology is transforming just about every domain you can name.

Well, guess what? They’ve now finished 4 episodes (15 min. each). We intend to show them all and then talk about the geospatial future.

Check out the trailer below and join us for a geektastic geospasm.

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Apps for Journalists

March 13, 2012 | By

dball

Thursday, March 15
CoCo St. Paul, 3rd floor
Social hour at 6 p.m. | Program at 7 p.m.

Get your geek on with the Minnesota Society of Professional Journalists as tech-savvy Twin Cities journalists share byte-sized presentations on the web services and mobile apps that help them find news, dig up sources, and stay organized.

Presenters will include tech columnist Julio Ojeda-Zapata(Pioneer Press) and mobile/social media editors Jon Gordon(MPR) and Colleen Kelly (Star Tribune).

Free and open to all journalists.

This event is a collaboration between The Society of Professional Journalists Minnesota Pro Chapter, the Pioneer Press and CoCo.

Entrepreneurs Rally

March 5, 2012 | By

dball

Tuesday, March 13
6 to 11 p.m.
CoCo Minneapolis

Join us for an evening designed to inject cutting-edge business thought into the Twin Cities entrepreneurial scene. This is your chance to meet the movers and shakers in our community. Bring your questions, challenges, ideas to this meeting as well as tons of business cards.

It all takes place at CoCo Minneapolis, on the former trading floor of the Minneapolis Grain Exchange. If you are an early stage entrepreneur, this will be the most important event you will attend this year.

Agenda

6 to 8 – MentorLab: meet with up to 50 different accomplished mentors (boxed meals provided)
8:30 – Keynote: Ido Leffler: “Say Yes to Disruptive Innovation and Yes to Ethics and Company Culture.” Ido is Co-Founder and “Chief Carrot Lover” of the San Francisco0-based natural beauty brand Yes To Inc. (the makers of Yes To Carrots, Yes To Cucumbers, Yes to Tomatoes, Yes to Blueberries).

Space is limited, so take action!

Watch this video for tips from Cem Erdem on how to work the event
View the event brochure (PDF)
Register here. Attendance is free. MentorLab, which includes a box lunch, costs $10.

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