Fundraising from Minnesota
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Jeff Pesek & Mike Bollinger founded TECHdotMN (http://tech.mn) to serve as a resource for Minnesota's high tech industry. With an emphasis on early stage startup ventures and the entrepreneurs behind them, TECHdotMN take a multi-faceted approach to adding value to Minnesota's high tech ecosystem, including: the creation and curation of relevant news and information, the maintenance of a comprehensive calendar of tech events, and the development of the largest Minnesota tech database. Mike Bollinger is a designer, coder, entrepreneur, and explorer. He is founder of Livefront, a mobile software design & development firm, and co-founder of TECHdotMN, a media group covering technology news in Minnesota. Mike has been designing and building mobile and web software for 14 years with clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to start-ups. He is an active member of the Minnesota technology community, a regular speaker at local events, and is on the Board of Directors for two non-profit organizations: Cheerful Givers and BizLounge. In his spare time Mike is an avid world traveler, a musician, a photographer, and a super-fast-sailboat-racer-guy. Founder of Pedal Brain Jon Dahl is a hacker and entrepreneur who co-founded Slantwise Design in 2003, which became Minnesota's leading Ruby on Rails development shop. He has since moved into the startup world, and is currently co-founder of Zencoder, a Y Combinator-backed startup that builds cloud computing tools for web and mobile video. In between, he blogged at Rail Spikes, received an MA in Theology, and founded Tumblon, a web-based startup for parents of young children. No bio for Darren Cox. (create one) No bio for Lief Larson. (create one)
This panel session will bring together local technology entrepreneurs to share the trials, tribulations, tricks and tactics of securing early-stage financing.
Panelists will include:
- Matt Bauer - Pedal Brain
- Jon Dahl - Zencoder
- Darren Cox - CaSTT
- Lief Larson - Workface
