Raising investment capital - whether seed, angel, or venture - can be a necessary ingredient of the startup lifecycle.
This session will open with a quantitative look at local investment activity, followed by an entrepreneur + investor panel discussion, and conclude with a guide to best practices.
Participants can expect to deepen their understanding of the current market conditions as well as learn how to increase the probability of success when fundraising in Minnesota.
Panelists:
Justin Kaufenberg - TST Media
Jim Moar - Optimine
Troy Kopischke - Invenshure
Tony Abena - Angel Investor
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Entrepreneur, designer, coder, outdoorsman, explorer. Founder of Livefront; Co-Founder of TECHdotMN; Co-Founder of Bannerflow.
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.
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Justin Kaufenberg is CEO at TST Media, which he co-founded in 2004. Justin is responsible for setting the overall direction and product strategy for the company, as well as new growth initiatives. Justin holds a bachelor’s degree in business economics and marketing from University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
TST Media is a sport software company that has developed the NGIN platform. The NGIN is delivered as a SaaS solution to more then 2,000 sports leagues and associations in all 50 states and many different countries. TST has 90 employees with offices Minneapolis and Madison. With TST, Justin has raised three rounds of funding, including family and friends, angel and most recently $3.75M from El Dorado Ventures of Menlo Park.
Prior to TST, Justin was the co-founder of Third North Creative, a custom interactive agency that incubated the NGIN platform before spinning out TST Media.
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I am an angel investor that invests locally (MN), regionally (Pacific NW-OR/WA/AK) and globally (India). My firm Palatine Hill Ventures, LLC invests in early-stage businesses that leverage technology and talent to disrupt existing markets/segments.
I am currently a Director of Jingit, LLC, an investor in Gwabbit, LLC and an investor/advisor in Kae Capital which invests in India-based start-ups. I was a Director at Jobs2Web, which was recently sold to SuccessFactors in December 2011 for $110 million.
I am also currently the Chief Operating Officer of Deloitte Investments, LLC, the new ventures division of Deloitte, the world's leading professional services firm. Previously, I was President of a $400 million division of Thomson Reuters that created five new businesses and made 11 acquisitions since 2009.
My LinkedIn profile: http://www.linkedin.com/profile/view?id=1529581&trk=tab_pro
Jim Moar is CEO, OptiMine Software since February 2011. OptiMine solves the complex pricing problems facing advertisers in online advertising with a first focus on keyword bidding in paid search. In a significant number of customer tests, OptiMine consistently improves paid search advertiser financial performance by 25% or more against competing systems. Online advertising is now a $40B industry in the U.S. growing at 15-20% annually.
OptiMine raised $1M in late 2010 and closed a second round for $3.6M in October 2011 led by Hummer Winblad Venture Partners.
Jim was formerly President/COO at Identix (sold in 2006 for $775M, over 70x forward EBITDA), COO at Tennant, and COO at DataCard. He is also a founder of the Minnesota Emerging Software Advisory (MESA). MESA's focus on mentoring emerging growth software companies has the long-term goal of helping Minnesota's software economy become one of the most vibrant in the U.S.
Troy Kopischke and Dan Cunagin founded Invenshure, LLC (http://invenshure.com), a tech incubator with an attached venture fund. Invenshure identifies, incubates, funds and grows emerging technology companies and currently has launched two portfolio companies: Imbio, LLC, and Exosite, LLC. Troy serves as President/CFO and leads Imbio, (http://imbio.com), a biotech company focused on medical imaging biomarkers. He is also the co-founder & a board member of Exosite (http://exosite.com), a cloud-based data platform company connecting devices to enterprise software applications in the M2M space.
Previously, he was the President/CFO for Steady State Imaging, LLC, raising $3M in Angel funding and developing a commercialization strategy for a novel MRI technology that lead to a sale to GE Healthcare in 2011. Prior to Steady State Imaging, Troy served as the President/CFO and co-owner of Logic Product Development, Inc., where he was instrumental in building one of the largest product development firms in the U.S. ($40M in revenue on $1.2M in Angel funding), leading to a sale to Microdynamics in 2005.
Discover the project that Bing, MapQuest, the US government, and Apple all take advantage of in products you use every day! In this session we will explore the free wiki-style map of the world. We'll work together to improve the map data and then explore some of the endless ways you can use this data in your projects. Bring your laptops!
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I know some things about building applications for the web. There is much more that I don't know. I'd like to chat with others who know some things in a discussion-oriented session about what goes into planning, marketing, designing, and building web-based products.
We can share stories of failure and success and collectively learn what has worked and what hasn't.
Founder, designer and client-side coder.
Founded Minnesota's Barcamp and together with Luke Francl put together various events and programs throughout the year aimed at catalyzing tech and design innovation and a startup culture within the state.
Co-Founder of Refactr LLC, a consultancy and product development shop focused on rapidly developing and deploying web and mobile applications.
Sometimes blogger at AltText.com
Many of us sign our free and open source project artifacts with OpenPGP/GnuPG keys. This session proposes an informal key signing party:
"A key signing party is a get-together of people who use the PGP encryption system with the purpose of allowing those people to sign each others keys. Key signing parties serve to extend the web of trust to a great degree."
http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html
To participate, create a PGP key pair if you haven't already and send the public key to a keyserver. Then bring small pieces of paper with your name and PGP key fingerprint on them to hand out to people.
After the session, you may fingerprint, validate, and sign the keys of those people you met at the session.
Free and open source bioinformatics & data visualization hacker.
Visit with ipHouse.
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From _why the luck stiff to Mark Pilgrim, the world of the internet is filled with people that have reached a high profile point in their career and then... went completely gone dark.
A search for 'Depression' brings up 3,423 results at Hacker News. 'Burnout' - 682 results.
Let's have a frank discussion about identifying the signs of burnout, how to overcome them, and how to find happiness doing the work we do.
Without needing to completely disappear.
I'm an web app developer and consultant, web font expert, and open web advocate. In the past year, I've reduced my online activity and was surprised at what I found. More on me here: http://garrickvanburen.com/
Money. Technology. Chutzpah. A socratic conversation under the following headings:
CHUTZPAH: - What's your passion? - The enemies of chutzpah (Your house? Your job? Your 401k?) - If at first you don't succeed, be retrospective. - It's a lonely world out there. Find good partners.
MONEY: - "I don't have the money": the excuse we give ourselves to do nothing. - Get acquainted. There's money all around you. - When the ideas run out, the money follows. - Don't spend money like a corporation.
TECHNOLOGY: - So, what have you heard about Everett Roger's innovation diffusion curve? - Your idea may be good. But not that good. - Master system development lifecycles. Know what to expect. - With all the APIs out there, it's never been easier to build your IT. - Outsourcing as a competitive advantage. Act local. Think global.
Adah Ojile is the Managing Principal and founder of Minng! - a cross-promotion and networking platform for local businesses (http://minng.com). Ojile is an Aeronautical Engineering graduate of the United States Air Force Academy and a graduate of Cornell Law School. Over the years, he's worked as a corporate attorney at a top 10 international law firm, and as an IT business analyst/consultant at a major retailer, web marketing company and a couple of startups.
A proliferation of new devices means unprecedented content management challenges. We suddenly need to reshape, rethink, and redesign our content to work on smartphones, tablets, apps, social channels, eBooks, and more – including what’s yet to come.
This presents new challenges for content management systems. In order to get content to work across many devices, we need to separate content creation and management from display. Content needs to live in its own structured, semantically rich environment, so it can be easily accessed and manipulated across platforms.
To do this successfully, we need to dramatically rethink the CMS. And we need to do it with a deep understanding of workflow and the authoring experience.
This our moment, our golden opportunity to develop the next-generation CMS. Something adaptive and highly usable. With all the technical wonder you developers bring to the table and all the simplicity we authors need. We can break the CMS free from being "the software that UX forgot."
Come to this session, and I’ll walk you through some of the conversations happening on the content side of the equation. Then we’ll talk functionality. I have some ideas to share, and we can brainstorm new ideas together.
At the end of the session, you’ll walk away with the building blocks to go out and create something amazing.
Meghan Seawell works in content strategy at Brain Traffic, one of the world's leading content strategy firms that employs some of the brightest minds in the industry and facilitates conversation among cutting-edge thought leaders.
She has in-depth experience managing content management systems on the organization side, including authoring, editing, and defining workflow.
The power of the press was revolutionary 300 years ago with Ben Franklin and other early American printers, and the nature of the press is revolutionary today with the advent of ebooks and independent publishing.
Ereaders, smart phones and tablets can download ebooks in seconds for free, for 99¢ or more than $9.99 from online bookstores, libraries or mobile apps. Readers can find titles from any genre by most authors in any length from pamphlet to story to magazine to novella to novel to journal to enhanced ebook. And, most any writer can publish an ebook in days across major markets for the cost of a $100-dollar Franklin note.
Get a quick primer on the technology trends and industry issues. Hear a panel discussion on key topics, and bring questions of your own.
Patrick Rhone is a Writer, Essayist, and Technology Consultant living in Saint Paul, MN, and he is the independent author of two books: enough and Keeping It Straight - You, Me, & Everything Else published by the alternative First Today Press.
David Hedrick Skarjune, EDP, Word & Image is a consultant for electronic documents, ebook production, and online marketing for authors.
Peter Edstrom is a Senior Developer, Interactive at PRI Public Radio International, where he worked on the interactive iBook Teacher Redesign. Peter is a change agent. Part Digital Strategy. Part Project Manager. Part Software Developer.
Tom Kerber is Chief Publishing Executive at Beaver's Pond Press, where he leads the publishing team working with authors, team members, and business partners to set strategic direction.
At GoogleIO 2010, Virgil Dobjanschi introduced a compelling pattern for building robust Android applications that rely on REST APIs. But the presentation detailed only a design, no implementation details were provided. Since that time developers have been searching for examples that demonstrate how to implement this pattern, but have been left asking
"Where's the source code?"
This year the Android Users Group of MN (AUG.mn) started an open source project, led by Jeremy Haberman, Peter Pascale and Brad Armstrong, that aims to provide a reference implementation and example application that finally provides the missing code.
In this session Brad and Jeremy will explain the pattern, dive into the code and share how you can get involved.
I'm the lead engineer on the Android team at Code 42 Software, responsible for their flagship CrashPlan mobile product. With nearly 15 years of software development experience, I was an early adopter of Android starting with the pre-1.0 SDKs, building apps long before I even had a phone! I'm also a co-founder of the Android Users group of MN.
Besides Android, I'm also interested in scalable architectures and applications, hypermedia apis and api design, software craftsmanship, and mostly just getting better each day. A typical tech geek, I'm constantly distracted by Twitter @hashbrown1, Hacker News and shiny things.
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It's not about how many people you know, it's about how many people know you. Social media has made the world transparent and to stand out you need to differentiate yourself. People tend to focus on what they want to do instead of why they want to do it. But research shows it’s best to start with why, then how and then what.
This session will help you discover your why. Your why will help develop your brand and differentiate yourself.
Jeff Brown and Dan Wallace have ample experience with the power of why in the workplace. Working at Apple as director of innovation, Brown learned about the power of why working with Steve Jobs. Wallace has been using the power of why in his personal life and with helping clients build their brand.
Today Brown and Wallace through their partnership at Catalytic Innovation, use this simple framework with companies that are stuck, helping them differentiate from competitors.
Jeffry Brown: Every life is a story. My story includes many adventures, some successful, some great learning experiences, all valuable and part of who I am and what I can do for you. My love of work is helping you transform something good into something superb. I worked at Apple in the early years to help set trends and innovation and envision what has become the iPhone and iPad. I also created the Sun Bums Shopper in Waikiki, co-wrote and launched a Broadway Show, traded fine art, and lived out of a backpack touring the vineyards of Europe (to help a friend start a wine business). I've started and led tech businesses, including CEO of a publicly traded company. I focus on innovation first, brand identity, and then the bottom line.
@IdeaWhiz Twitter, http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrybrown LinkedIn
Dan Wallace: My work passion is providing products and services that help individuals and organizations learn, create and grow. The ideal client is facing dramatic change and/or in search of transformational growth. When it is time to execute, I can draw upon a large and diverse network of talented colleagues and specialists. Depending on the client need, I can work as an innovation catalyst, creative director and writer. During each engagement I work to transfer knowledge, skills, insights, ideas and contacts.
@ideafood Twitter, http://www.linkedin.com/in/danwallace LinkedIn
Already a web developer? Then learn how to build native iPhone and Android apps using PhoneGap, jQuery Mobile and your HTML skills.
I'll walk through the whole process in order to demonstrate:
I'lll be using our app Skill Sketch as an example of a completed PhoneGap/jQuery Mobile app that is currently in the iTunes App Store.
I love building stuff.
Lately I've built some a few iphone apps, including Skill Sketch and LitLift Characters with my good friend @darrelaustin.
I've also built an online novel organization tool called LitLift.com.
Thinking of moving from hosting on shared hardware to your own virtualized server via cloud-based hosting?
This seminar will cover the basics you need to consider when deciding between different virtualization and cloud solutions. Including:
We will end with an open Q&A session and discussion that can be as elementary or as technical as desired by the attendees.
Mike Horwath has been designing hosting solutions and managing servers on the Internet for the last 20 years.
As the founder of Winternet, Minnesota's first ISP, he delivered Internet access and web hosting services to tens of thousands of Minnesotans. As the CTO of VISI.com from 1996 to 2004 he again was at the forefront of hosting design and management -- creating high-performance, redundant hosting platforms both for VISI.com's customer base as a whole and as specialized, stand-alone enterprise solutions for individual businesses.
Now CTO/President of ipHouse he is turning his expertise toward designing and deploying virtualization platforms that offer improvements over traditional cloud hosting.
Last year I spoke about how the “War For Talent” was under way in Silicon Valley with some skirmishes in Minneapolis/St Paul.
Now with IT unemployment in MSP at <2% the battle is on.
This year we are going to talk about:
Career/Jobs page: you have one, right?
Job posts: because yours suck, right?
Creating talent pools: you are being proactive, right?
Employer branding: do your potential employees know who you are?
Retention: you are working to keep your staff, right?
Sourcing, recruiting and closing candidates
I will have screen shots, links and resources for you take back to the office.
Paul DeBettignies is VP Recruiting of HireCast Consulting, LLC a Minneapolis IT Consulting and Search Firm, author of Minnesota Headhunter and Co Founder and Coordinator of Minnesota Recruiters a 3,000 member group of corporate, search and consulting firm recruiters.
Paul is a frequent local and national speaker and article contributor on recruiter, HR, job search, career, networking and social media topics. He is also involved in the Minneapolis and St Paul technology, marketing and social media community as a sponsor, volunteer and mentor.
Gearman is a (a)synchronous job queue that can help your website scale. From image and video processing, to emails, previews and more. Using gearman can help you scale the possibilities. Never again will you be angered at cron running every minute; ensuring correct locking mechanisms to prevent race conditions, not making use of the time to run through jobs immediately and simply managing them to the correct users cron.
This talk will go over general implementation of gearman, optimizing the workflow through code, looking at the short comings and how to handle them and eventually ending up at keeping your workers / daemons running.
Mike Willbanks is a software engineer manager at CaringBridge, a nonprofit providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends.
He has more than a decade of experience programming the web with the majority being with PHP. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and focuses on high availability and high performance applications.
Mike organizes the MNPHP User Group and has a passion for knowledge sharing and contributing back to the community.
I will be moderating a Lighting Talk session in the classic model, where you put your name on a list with the amount of time you want, and we'll go shortest talks to longest until we run out of either speakers or time.
No need to register in advance, just show up with something to demo or talk about, and we will take it from there!
I help organize this thing...
Deploy web applications automatically from a shared team web interface with GitHub & Amazon Web Services.
2-minute web application deployment from GitHub to new Amazon Web Services EC2 instance.
Deploy and rollback to any tagged git version automatically from web.
Work on 1 master development branch; staging and production versions are set in the web interface by git tags.
Pre-configured for Python / Django. Django app to deploy Django apps.
Shell script "cookbooks" to deploy and rollback can be changed to new scripts and utility commands by an experienced sys admin and executed via web interface by a front end developer.
Founder & CEO of CoraCove.
CoraCove develops web and mobile applications using Python, Django, Jquery and HTML5.
Our systems are 100% cloud. We share code using GitHub and use Amazon Web Services for hosting.
I am an AWS fanboy and am all in on Amazon services. They are amazing.
This interactive group discussion will include an overview of the crowdfunding platforms from donation-based sites (Kickstarter & IndieGogo), P2P lending networks (LendingClub & Prosper), Investor relations / connector sites (AngelList & Gust) and distill it into a relevant dialogue with all participants – panel and the audience – on why to use these tools, what can be used effectively for you today, what these could look like with the recent passage of the JOBS Act and the legal implications of digital media in raising raise capital.
The panel will include entrepreneurs using digital media to access capital, experts on the use of these platforms and corporate securities attorney(s) that will likely be calling out the “crap” portion of what can legally work!
Speaker, Entrepreneur & Advocate Patrick Donohue will introduce the facts on the subject and will moderate the discussion to uncover facts and crap about the role of digital media in raising capital.
We are crowdsourcing the discussion at #CapForum
Questions for group discussion around digital media and it's role in raising capital? Let us know! pd(at)dealpen.com
PANELISTS:
Moderator: Patrick Donohue, founder, @DealPen (http://angel.co/patrick-donohue)
Joe Serrano, co-founder, Mashalot (@333serrano / http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephserrano)
Harold Slawik, partner, New Counsel: (@hslawik / http://www.linkedin.com/in/haroldslawik)
Colin Hirdman, co-founder, Monkey Island, Inc. (@colinhirdman / http://www.linkedin.com/in/colinhirdman)
Jeff Robbins, attorney, Messerli & Kramer (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffrey-c-robbins/6/936/778)
Zach Robins, associate, Aethlon Capital (http://www.linkedin.com/in/zjrobins)
I am an attorney and practice head of the Entrepreneurial Services Group of Messerli & Kramer P.A. in Minneapolis. I work with entrepreneurs who start and grow new (mostly technology-based) enterprises and angel and venture investors who target those companies. I am also a Judge in the annual Minnesota Cup business plan competition. www.breakthroughideas.org. Additionally, I am founder of AngelPolleNation, a Twin Cities networking organization that furthers awareness, communication and education among solo investors, informal investment clubs and formal angel investment groups, and an advisory board member to Gopher Angels, a local investor network.
Read more at http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jeffrey-c-robbins/6/936/778
Entrepreneur passionate about ideas, start-ups, and the Twin Cities tech community. Co-founded Monkey Island Inc and current start-up SMBtweet.
I'm a lawyer by training and work at an investment bank, raising capital for later stage companies. Geek at heart :)
More about me: http://www.linkedin.com/in/zjrobins
Everyday I am motivated by the fact that I can have a positive influence on lives by expanding local access to capital.
Therefore, I dedicate my work to educating people to directly access capital at a point where reputation meets technology.
My background is as an entrepreneur, investor, securities analyst and corporate development.
Full Bio: http://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickedonohue
Twitter: @DonohuePatrickE
AngelList: http://angel.co/patrick-donohue
I am a partner in the New Counsel, PLC law firm, a firm I founded with John Roberts here in Minneapolis in 2006. We focus on early-stage tech companies. My practice centers on company formations, management structure, capitalization, investment funding, mergers and acquisitions, and intellectual property rights ownership and licensing.
I worked as a senior executive for a couple of high-profile startups in Silicon Valley in the 90s: Diba and Niku. We sold Diba to Sun Microsystems in 1998. Niku public at a $2.4B market cap. in early 2000. I have been an angel investor in Minnesota startups since returning from the Bay Area in late 2000.
LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/haroldslawik
Twitter: @hslawik
Two-time entrepreneur, and cofounder of Mashalot, a social commerce marketplace. Navigating the angel investor world of Minnesota and beyond.
In this session we'll go over what has changed and what's new in PHP 5.4. We'll also take a more in-depth look at some of the big features including: binary notation, short-hand and dereferencing arrays, class instantiation chaining, traits, session handling, file upload tracking, and the new built-in webserver.
Michael Stowe is a professional software engineer, PHP 5.3 Zend Certified, and has over 10 years of PHP hacking experience.
In those 10 years Michael has built numerous websites and applications, including applications for the medical field, law enforcement, one of the leading audio and lighting dealers, large and small non-profits, and numerous industrial companies.
Michael currently works at CaringBridge as a Software Engineer, a non-profit serving over half a million people everyday.
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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.
In this session we'll discuss the best methods of redirecting mobile users to a mobile site based on phone type and capabilities, advertising phone apps on your site, redirecting users back to the full site, user preference remembrance, and general phone usability topics.
Michael Stowe is a professional software engineer, PHP 5.3 Zend Certified, and has over 10 years of PHP hacking experience.
In those 10 years Michael has built numerous websites and applications, including applications for the medical field, law enforcement, one of the leading audio and lighting dealers, large and small non-profits, and numerous industrial companies.
Michael currently works at CaringBridge as a Software Engineer, a non-profit serving over half a million people everyday.
Hear the employer and the employee side of a case study involving networking skills, Product Camp and the ability to never, ever give up.
Kay Roseland is the Product Manager - Specialist for Lawson Software. Kay is a marketing maven, social media strategist and life-long learner, as evidenced by her MBA and her certification as a Master of Social Media. After landing her job at Lawson, she is considering a new title: Networking Princess.
Joan Watson is the Supply Chain Management Product Manager for Lawson Software. With 17 years of Lawson application experience, she has implemented, designed, trained and supported the SCM products. She is focused currently on defining requirements and new solutions that will solve business problems. In addition Joan has extensive Materials Management experience in the Healthcare industry prior to working at Lawson Software.
During the SOPA blackout we all learned that we shouldn't send a HTTP Status 200 for a blackout. Everyone knows what a 404 is. And most of us know the difference between a 301 and a 302. But there are over 65 HTTP status codes! We live eat and breath the web and we had better know what these status codes mean!
In this session we will quickly go over every HTTP status code, what it is for, why you use it, etc. This will be part informational and part theater as we try to make it through each one in the 45 minutes allotted us!
Be on time!
Jamie is COO and CTO of 8thBridge, a pioneering social commerce startup. Previously, he served as CTO for leading financial publishers including the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Enterprise Media Group of Dow Jones and MarketWatch, Inc. He was the founding CTO of BigCharts, the leading provider of financial tools and information to consumers and financial services companies via the web. In 1999, BigCharts was acquired by MarketWatch and the technology is still used by Dow Jones & Company today. In addition, Jamie has developed and managed products and technologies for properties including Barron’s, Virtual Stock Exchange, Dow Jones Newswires and Dow Jones Indexes.
I'm an web app developer and consultant, web font expert, and open web advocate. In the past year, I've reduced my online activity and was surprised at what I found. More on me here: http://garrickvanburen.com/
This will be the fourth conversation about job search, networking and career maintenance at MinneBar that I have done.
Likely you are getting calls from folks like me every week (day) to see if you are looking for a new job or consulting gig.
Frequent conversations I have had lately include (and bring what is on your mind):
what the local job market is like right now
how to compare salary, rates and compensation packages
doing a silent job search
how to find decision makers
if/how to work with search/consulting firms
A few slides and a lot of Q&A and discussion.
Paul DeBettignies is VP Recruiting of HireCast Consulting, LLC a Minneapolis IT Consulting and Search Firm, author of Minnesota Headhunter and Co Founder and Coordinator of Minnesota Recruiters a 3,000 member group of corporate, search and consulting firm recruiters.
Paul is a frequent local and national speaker and article contributor on recruiter, HR, job search, career, networking and social media topics. He is also involved in the Minneapolis and St Paul technology, marketing and social media community as a sponsor, volunteer and mentor.
Effectively weaving your entrepreneurial social networks doesn't have to be left to chance.
If we accept that who we know plays a critical role in our venture creation process and the probability of our success, then we can evaluate our entrepreneurial connections that add value to our efforts—our entrepreneurial social capital.
But, after evaluating our entrepreneurial social capital, what happens next? How do we become smart network weavers to expand our entrepreneurial social capital?
In this session, find out how to percolate your entrepreneurial connections so you can more effectively expand your entrepreneurial social capital for greater success.
This session builds on three previous sessions at the last three minnebars (but NOT prerequisites):
• Percolating TurboGeeks—Exploring Why Innovation Networks Form The Way They Do
• Schumpeter’s Hive—Consciously Weaving Our Collaborative Innovation Networks
• Who Do You Know—Evaluating Your Entrepreneurial Social Capital
Drew is a 22-year High Tech industry veteran working with virtual teams and work design within global collaboration networks. Drew has worked in various capacities with Toshiba, Dell, ADC WorldMap, Empower, TerraGraphics, SpatialSherpa, and Microsoft. He is known for his entrepreneurial mindset, weaving networks, and building worldwide sales and marketing channels through strategic alliances.
Over the years, Drew has co-founded a Business Intelligence firm serving High Tech start-ups in the Pacific Northwest, co-founded a Knowledge Age networking group called The Hive, and served on the board of the Wisconsin Innovation Network. He reviewed a chapter in a recent book on using virtual environments in corporate education and development.
Drew has a Masters and PhD in Human and Organizational Systems, a Masters in Management and Organizational Behavior, a Bachelors in Management and Communication, and a Bachelors in English Literature. He is an adjunct professor in Concordia University’s MBA program, the Fox Valley Technical College, and the Advantara Global Executive Learning and Coach Education Institute in London. Drew also served eight years in the US Air Force and US Air Force Reserves as a member of the command section in an award-winning Airbase Ground Defense unit. Drew is currently teaching, consulting, and conducting research on global collaborative innovation networks. He consults under his moniker GlobalVoyager Enterprises.
Klout, Kred, and other "social influence" ratings companies are self-appointed masters of measuring how you and I are influenced by what we see and hear online.
But let's talk really about how big a problem measuring digital influence is, and then just how well various companies are actually doing that. (And Klout is barely at the starting line)
I'll present a snappy 20 minute tour of the challenge, how current efforts are actually measuring or not measuring social influence online, and then provide a chart of how social influence could be used by marketers, politicians, social trend setters and even you and your neighbors. We'll look into big data projects like Factual and Dachis Group's Social Business Index, and attempts to use DNA in marketing to see how meaningfully we're currently measuring social influence and how much father we need to go in order to effectively use that measurement in the marketplace and in society.
Then I propose we launch into a discussion of ideas about a) how to accurately measure digital influence and b) how measurements can actually be put to use in business and in our daily lives and c) legal and privacy concerns raised by measuring digital influence. Real world experiences and cases are very welcome.
I'm a Partner and Founder at Content & Social, a Twin Cities design and production company that focuses on "owned" content like Websites, landing pages, blogs, videos and applications, and how they work with "earned" content on social networks.
We help clients engage with their customers on the Social Internet. We develop business strategy, and we design user experiences on Websites and social communities. Our practice is focused on creating content strategy, governance and workflow, rich content, and change in traditional organizations.
We transform traditional marketing and sales organizations into social organizations. We practice Lean planning.
I'm formerly Senior Vice President for Product + Technology at Knight Ridder. I speak regularly in public, sometimes by invitation.
I'm a featured blogger at Social Media Today where I write about social influence online and report on new developments in social networks.
You've seen the numbers: 315 million devices worldwide, 25 billion app downloads, more than four billion dollars paid to developers. You've heard that this is an extraordinary time to be an Apple developer, but you don't know where to begin.
This session will get you started. You'll get a high-level overview of Objective-C (the primary language used to develop iOS apps), an introduction to XCode and Interface Builder (Apple's IDE), and a quick introduction to the major frameworks. You'll also receive a handy list of additional resources and topics you can explore when you're ready to dive deeper.
Justin Peck is the co-founder of QONQR: The Geosocial Game of World Domination!
He has been writing code since he unboxed his Timex Sinclair ZX81 in 1983. After many years of web development he switched his focus to mobile while working on the iOS client for QONQR, and has really fallen in love with the platform.
In addition to coding, Justin loves games, theater, science fiction, and pie. He also will not shut up about movies. Seriously, don't even get him started.
Gentoo Linux is a special flavor of Linux that can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme performance, configurability and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience.
As a leader of Gentoo, I will provide an overview of how it works from a developer's and a user's point of view, and why you should be running it — especially if you're:
If there's interest, I can also talk about future developments on the horizon for Gentoo, package management in general, etc.
Donnie is an IT industry analyst at RedMonk as well as an open-source developer and leader of Gentoo Linux. He brings a strong quantitative and analytical background as a Ph.D.-trained scientist to bear on software development and community management.
Minnebar 2011's Standing Room Only Smash Hit!
Have an idea that could be a business? Need the right team to go further? Want to hear about idea stage business ideas that you could be a part of?
Participants will present a handful of business ideas, answer and ask questions. Come participate and maybe you could be a part of to be the next big thing. This will be one part dueling idea cage match, one part gong show, and one part of speed dating for ideas and individuals who would consider being part of a start up business project. Entrepreneurs, Developers, Geeks, Techies, and people with ideas are all welcome.
We seek to jump start the discussion of promising business ideas and attract uniquely qualified people together to further develop the ideas. One goal is that synergistic person to person connections will be made that lead to startup businesses. Every business idea in history began with a discussion.
Where do the business ideas come from? You. Please submit your business ideas before the session to twitter #BizIdeaDate or email AHepp at sign BuySelf dot com. Answer these questions: (1) What is your idea? (2) Who/what skill set of person does your idea need? (I don't know is an acceptable answer for #2). Preference will be given to clearly presented ideas that can be introduced in less than 3 minutes. Obviously, these discussions and ideas will not be confidential. The purpose of this event is to refine ideas and team up similarly interested individuals to discuss a future opportunity.
Depending on the number of pre-event submissions, we may have time to take some raw ideas from attendees during the session--submit your ideas right up and during the event, although last minute entries may not make the cut. Come out for a highly experimental and potentially chaotic session to see what can happen when ideas, people, and energy connect in the same space.
LinkedIn Profile http://www.linkedin.com/pub/albert-hepp/8/228/8b3
Client-side 'MUC'. by Edward Smith.
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Virtualization Discussion
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Hot-Neutral-Anchor is an approach to generating color schemes loosely based on the HSV model. It doesn't deny the merits of the 12-point wheel of subtractive color or the venn diagram of additive color. These are valuable tools, but they focus entirely on hue. Hot-Neutral-Anchor focuses on differences in saturation and value to create rich and balanced combinations.
Hot-Neutral-Anchor isn't anything new, and for many of us it's probably something we do intuitively. It's mostly a labeling mechanism that creatives and non-creatives can easily understand. And, it's completely flexible and modular.
All this said, it's just one approach to generating and identifying color schemes. My approach. And it's still new to me. And I'm still deciding whether it's valuable or not.
How do you create successful color schemes? What if you're working within established brand guidelines? What mnemonic devices, if any, have you found to be helpful?
Faculty at Rasmussen College in the School of Technology & Design. I teach in the Multimedia Technologies program.
www.coroflot.com/mindiola/
twitter.com/SickWithAMouse/
A case study about the creation of Teacher Redesign, a interdepartmental, self-organizing team that went from zero to a book sent to Apple's iBookstore in only 3 weeks.
Peter Edstrom is a Senior Developer, Interactive at PRI Public Radio International, where he worked on the interactive iBook Teacher Redesign. Peter is a change agent. Part Digital Strategy. Part Project Manager. Part Software Developer.
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Developing software for healthcare data management can be a difficult task. Managing data security, ontology, and interoperability between systems often seems nearly impossible. We will present new methods of data storage using NoSQL to manage large, evolving data sets of health information. We will guide attendees through the capture of healthcare data from various devices, securing this information through a .NET web service interface, and providing reports with an easy-to-use interface on a Windows 8 Metro-style application.
Wade is an MD/PhD candidate at the University of Minnesota and has 10 years of software development experience in computational biology and web technologies. With a focus on healthcare IT, his current interests include managing large data sets, such as imaging and genetic sequencing information, and interoperability of healthcare information systems using standards-based web services.
Rich Hoeg will lead a discussion about the evolving field of business apps for mobile devices. Come prepared to discuss what your organization is doing in this area, and what development needs you perceive. In addition, Rich will review Honeywell's fledgling internal corporate apps store which includes both internally developed apps, as well as links to publicly sold apps. It may be interesting for "non corporate types" to learn how a traditional manufacturer is approaching this domain space.
Learn more about your facilitator via my web site, NorthstarNerd.Org (http://www.northstarnerd.org/econtent/hoeg.html)
Nena Street, from Robotics Innovation, will discuss her efforts to build a research park/business incubator for the robotics industry in Minnesota.
Robotics Innovation is working in collaboration with public and private parties, including ReconRobotics, Inc. and Robotics Alley, to build the Global Robotics Innovation Park (GRIP). GRIP will contain light industrial, office and laboratory facilities for high tech research, development, testing and evaluation (RDT&E) of robotics and automated systems, and related business incubation, classroom and event space.
Nena will share her vision and solicit your feedback and ideas.
www.RoboticsInnovation.com
Nena Street is founder and CEO of Robotics Innovation, LLC, the company leading efforts to build the Global Robotics Innovation Park (GRIP).
Nena is an attorney with a practice focused on real estate development and government contracting. As CEO of Robotics Innovation, Nena draws from a wealth of experience gained by representing clients on all sides of public-private partnerships. While practicing law, Nena helps developers and local governments secure financing and partner to accomplish complex land use, development, employment and infrastructure goals. Nena’s background provides her with a firsthand account of what works and what doesn’t in complex real estate development.
Nena continues to practice law as a Senior Associate at the law firm of Fredrikson & Byron P.A. where she focuses primarily on government contracting but also practices in the areas of land use, public finance, environmental compliance and political law.
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Current position is at a small GIS firm called Northstar Geographics. Before that, I worked as a web developer at the University of Minnesota then as an independent web developer (mostly WordPress) for a couple of years.
My main blog (since 2004) is the PF Hyper Blog where I have reported on broadband initiatives (among other topics) in the Twin Cities and elsewhere. I manage (with co-manager Becca Vargo Daggett) the Seward Neighbors Forum, an online discussion group in Seward Neighborhood in Minneapolis. I started the Seward Profile Online News blog in 2009 for Minneapolis's Seward Neighborhood. I'm seeking funding to create a sustainable model that could be ported to any community.
I was on the Minneapolis Digital Inclusion Fund Advisory Committee through 2010 The Committee oversees and funds digital inclusion proposals in Minneapolis.
In 2001, I taught at Minneapolis Community and Technical College and established courses in HTML, CSS, and web scripting for the Electronic and Web Publishing Department. I still serve on the Department's advisory board.
While at the University, I co-founded the CSS (Cascading Style Sheet) Development work group (now the Web Standards Group) which helped in kickstarting widespread use of CSS at University of Minnesota web sites. I'm also on the Minnewebcon organizing committee which stages the University of Minnesota's yearly web conference.
I got a Masters of Public Affairs from the University of Minnesota Humphrey Institute in 2009.
I grew up on northern Minnesota's Iron Range which has a culture more akin to New York City than Minnesota Nice. (Maybe why Robert Zimmerman headed east.) Most of my life has been spent in Minneapolis.
Do you remember playing with G.I. Joes and other various action figures? I do. And it always seemed you or your friends would make up new ways to attack and defend against each other. Where did those creative days go? Well, there is still relevancy today if you are thinking about starting a company. The question is, how do you, as an entrepreneur, attack or protect yourself against the competition? One way is through the creative works you develop and protect, also known as Intellectual Property or IP for short. We'll use this session to educate you on the forms of IP protection you have at your disposal. So that when you need to blast the competition with a patented nuclear photon missile, you can!
Justin Porter has numerous years of experience in a variety of technology and business roles. His most recent position was working in an environment where he was responsible for launching high technology-based start-up companies. He previously worked with a variety of consulting clients in a professional services role. He has a balanced mix of consulting, industry, and technical experiences, allowing him to be leveraged in all phases of a company. Mr. Porter has experience across many industry verticals including life sciences, physical and engineering sciences, software and information technology, and agriculture. Mr. Porter holds a BSB in Management Information Systems and Entrepreneurial Studies from the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities and an MBA from the University of Minnesota – Carlson School of Management.
Sean Solberg joined the Davis Brown Law Firm in March 2012. As a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property Department, he serves as patent counsel to clients ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies in a variety of industries, including the medical device, biotech and agriculture industries. Mr. Solberg is a registered patent attorney, able to practice in front of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Solberg has counseled a large number of startups, universities, and venture firms in a wide variety of new or emerging technologies, addressing any and all IP needs for clients in this space, including patent prosecution, IP-related agreements, IP-related issues with respect to product development, overall IP strategy, and any other IP matters that might arise.
In twenty-five years, the Mongol army subjugated more lands and people than the Romans had conquered in four hundred years. Whether measured by the total number of people defeated, the sum of the countries annexed, or by the total area occupied, Genghis Khan conquered more than twice as much as any other man in history and he did it all with an army that was nearly always outnumbered 3 to 1 on the battlefield. While every technique doesn't always translate well, we'll show you a few that works great in any startup.
Kevin Hale is one of the founders of Wufoo, an online form builder that was was ranked by Jakob Nielson as one of the best application UIs of 2008 and later acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011. He now serves as a Senior Product Manager responsible for safe guarding and enhancing the user experience of SurveyMonkey's products. He writes about interface design issues at particletree.com.
Want to know about this Content Management System (CMS) called Drupal? In this session Peter will be doing the amazing 5-minute install before your very eyes as well as showing basic theming using only his bare hands (and a little HTML and CSS). If the audience is well behaved, inquisitive, and above average he may even reveal other well-kept secrets such as the real Nature of Nodes, the Mystery of Modules, the Untouchable Core and, and even (oh my!) Taxonomies.
Peter K. Johnson teaches Web Programming at South Central College in Mankato, MN. He is CEO of Web Explorations, LLC specializing in educational systems and learning tools using Drupal.
Bandcamp, Soundcloud, Kickstarter, podcasts, iTunes, Amazon, Rhapsody, MySpace, Creative Commons, DAWs, TwitFace+, lolcats!
At the very first Minnebar, I ran a group brainstorm on The Internet and the Future of Art. A lot of what seemed like speculation and hope back then is now reality: a musician can make a shockingly good recording in their home studio, and reach a worldwide audience without waiting for the Magic Golden Touch from a shady record exec.
Now musicians face new challenges. How do we navigate the mind-boggling array of online artist tools? How do we cut through the din of the net to get our music heard? How do we build a non-crap web site on a musician's budget? Do we share our process, or post only tip-top polished work? Make a physical product, or go digital only? Sell or give away?
This is an open-ended discussion about navigating this wild new world where anyone can cook up a recording. Are you a published artist? Getting your feet wet? Just musi-curious? Either way, this session needs you. Bring your ideas!
Composer, pianist, software engineer, and maker of the piano podcast In the Hands, Paul Cantrell finds it oddly humorous to talk about himself in the third person.
Words matter. Use them right and they'll help people find your shiny new website, position you as a leader in your field, turn visitors into customers and keep them coming back for more. Use them wrong and you could be ignored or, worse, get a reputation for putting your virtual foot in your mouth. Make words work for you. Word nerd Lynne Morioka leads a conversation about how content and design are equal and essential, how to best represent yourself and your organization online, how to get people to do what you want them to and how to make a big content impact. Part of the discussion will also focus on the frustrations designers and developers face in dealing with their clients' content (or lack of content, in many cases).
Lynne Morioka owns Social Visibility Consulting. She has 15 years of experience as a writer, content provider, PR and social media specialist. Her clients include local web design and development firms, Brandpoint, AdFusion, local and national small- and medium-sized businesses, General Mills and more.
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Sea-change: a striking change, as in appearance, often for the better. (source: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/sea+change)
Arguably, HTML5 and CSS3 has been with us for little more than 3 years now. Still the global marketplace is continuing to invest tens of billions of dollars in building web solutions using older standards (HTML 4.1 and CSS2.1), without any considerations for adaptability to newer standards on the horizon - HTML5 and CSS3.
As you can see at this wonderful online resource (http://html5readiness.com/) that cross-browser compatibility is still a huge challenge as far as consistent support for newer HTML5/CSS3 standards. Most of the web design professionals I know have toyed around with one or more of these features but there are VERY FEW who claim to have expertise on majority of these standards - primarily because there are very few projects that will allow developers to design and build solutions with sole focus on tomorrow's needs.
In this 40 minute presentation plus 10 minute Q&A session, we will briefly talk about some of the HTML5 features, highlight some of the DOs and DON'Ts for any new projects that you might be starting, and then share references to online resources for you to dig deeper and continue exploring it further.
Ketan Kakkad is an entrepreneur, and an IT strategist with 20+ years experience in managing large, complex IT portfolios. Recently, he assumed role of the organizer for the Minnesota Web Design Meetup group, and has successfully transformed previously inactive group into a thriving, vibrant community of 500 web design professionals (http://www.webmn.net)
Ketan is also the founder of the tech-venture AdaptivePortal - a completely metadata-driven SaaS/PaaS platform; platform that is Built to Last, Engineered to Perform, and Designed to Adapt. He strongly believes that within next 3 to 5 years, as technology landscape becomes even more complex and fast-paced, we - the majority of the IT industry - will discard current practice of "artisan-styled, handcrafted web application development" and move towards the Industrialized/Assembly Line type of solutions.
DevOps tries to help organizations rapidly produce software products and services by dissolving unnecessary boundaries between development and operations teams. I believe DevOps is a necessary but not sufficient step in meeting the tremendous challenges currently facing IT. This presentation will tie together trends in Cloud Computing, DevOps /NoOps, Lean, Service Design, and the Consumerization of IT to define an approach to software services where delivery teams, from marketing and design, through development and QA, to operations and support, are radically aligned with each other and with the customer. In addition to surveying the trends that make it necessary, I will also describe the activities and behaviors that characterize User-Centered IT organizations.
Jeff Sussna is Founder and Principal of Ingineering.IT, a Twin-Cities consulting firm that helps IT organizations increase quality, efficiency, and customer value through user-centered IT service innovation. Jeff has over twenty years experience leading the development and operation of advanced online systems. He has done work for major technology companies, product startups, media conglomerates, and Fortune 500 corporations. His expertise includes Service Design, Behavior-Driven Development, QA and Ops Automation, and Cloud Computing.
The Google Summer of Code enables ~1000 students to contribute full-time to open-source software every summer. This will be Gentoo Linux's 7th year in GSoC, and we successfully recruit around 2/3 of all the students who participate in our program as long-term developers (typically ~15/year participate and ~10 join).
This talk will introduce you to GSoC, share what we've learned from it, and attempt to convince you to apply next year, either as a student or a mentoring organization.
Donnie is an IT industry analyst at RedMonk as well as an open-source developer and leader of Gentoo Linux. He brings a strong quantitative and analytical background as a Ph.D.-trained scientist to bear on software development and community management.
What does it mean to make your website mobile-friendly? In this discussion we'll focus on creating meaningful and engaging user experiences for your website when it's viewed on a smartphone, or tablet device.
Principal, Amy C. Smith, Inc.
Senior Usability Analyst, Lawson Software
Partner, Northfield Arts Town, LLC
Makerbot Thing-O-Matic #4966 will be in attendance.
We'll print stuff and chat about printing stuff.
Bring questions and curiosity.
See link for examples of what #4966 has printed.
joseph.sresu.me
Do you have a startup idea, but you can't find technical or non technical co-founders to help you take it to the next stage? Come and present your vision in a speed dating fashion and meet your future co-founders.
Project Skyway co-founder Casey Allen will start us off with key topics to think about as you develop your business idea further. Not only that, you will get access to the Founders of present and previous Project Skyway, via monthly happy hours, to help brainstorm and get direction on the key challenges you will face while developing your business idea
PRESENTER - send your ideas to jkhamb@gmail.com so that I can slot you in. No idea is too small, too big, too vague, too naive, too far fetched. If you feel passionate for it; we'll give you the stage.
Here is the deal - the time is short, and a lot of accomplish. Chaos is fine; but structure is better. We'll go through this list of instructions at the front of the hour.
Meeting Structure – Assuming at least 5 idea presenters and >15 attendees 1. Each founder gets 5 minutes to present their idea 2. After all presentations are over; each presenter gets a table with a large post-it with the name of their idea 3. Each presenter has four chairs in front of them, where the attendees can sit and learn about the project in a “speed dating” fashion 4. The organizers will ring a bell after every 5 minutes for attendees to move to other tables (20-25 minutes, depending upon the # of attendees) 5. After speed dating session, founders get back to the organizers and give the names of their ideas, matched founders, emails etc.
Meeting Structure – fewer than 5 presenters and 10 or fewer attendees 1. Each founder gets 5 minutes to present their idea 2. Followed by a session, not to last more than 15 minutes, where attendees ask questions on the idea 3. At the end of all presentations and Q&A, 15 minutes where attendees offer themselves to the founders to become part of the start up 4. After match up session is over founders get back to the organizers and give the names of their ideas, matched founders, emails etc.
Monthly Founder Happy Hour: We will organize a happy hour on a monthly basis where all founders get together to discuss the progress; brain storm with each other any issues they are facing; find contacts; etc.
INSTRUCTIONS Instructions for the presenters for the first 5 minutes: In your presentation try to answer as many of the following questions as possible – while having fun at it. 1. Describe the problem your idea will solve 2. Describe who your customers will be 3. What are your immediate needs? – Developer (front end, back end), Designer, money, contacts, etc. 4. Describe any technology/language that you will be using for the idea 5. Describe what role you will be playing in the team
Instructions for the attendees during the presentation session: 1. Please jot down your questions for each presenter, discuss these during the speed dating session 2. Questions could be addressed during the 5 minutes of presentations if the presenter has time
Instructions for the attendees during speed dating session: 1. Please rank order the ideas that you are interested in and go to your top priority first, and so on 2. Ask your question but let everyone sitting at the table ask one question before you ask your second question – avoid a monologue or extended discussion with the presenter due to time constraints 3. If you are interested in a project, don’t wait till the end to let the founder know that you want to join in, or you might lose the opportunity if others are selected first
Let's get the party started!!!!
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jatinder-singh/2/259/112
Have spent 80% of my waking life failing, but still rocking it out. Harder than ever.
In case you're having problems falling asleep: http://casey.extendr.com
Varnish cache is a front-end caching server that can literally save your rear when traffic starts to hit a new level. Varnish is all about scale and minimalizing the need for extra web servers when they are unnecessary. This talk will discuss the reasons you should use varnish and why it is good, show examples of how it can literally scale your website to handling a slashdotting effect, pushing through to handling more efficiently and then showing you how to do this with dynamic content.
Now the down right crazy? Well you might just have to come and see how the cache can be utilized to make even the dynamic portions of your website scale beyond what you even thought possible.
Mike Willbanks is a software engineer manager at CaringBridge, a nonprofit providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends.
He has more than a decade of experience programming the web with the majority being with PHP. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and focuses on high availability and high performance applications.
Mike organizes the MNPHP User Group and has a passion for knowledge sharing and contributing back to the community.
Have you ever thought about integrating your web application's database into the database of the content management system that was used to build the site? Tom will demonstrate some the positives and negatives of this approach. While the presentation will use a Drupal instance for demonstration purposes, the same concepts can be applied to any web CMS that allows custom interaction with the underlying database.
Tom Edwards is an IT instructor at South Central College, a technical and community college in Mankato, MN.
For job seekers and employers
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On any given request for a website, there is precious little we know about the players involved. We don't know who the user is, where they live, what they speak, really anything about them. They are using a browser, but we don't know what that browser is. We don't know how they interact with that browser. That browser is on some device that we don't know about and we don't know how that device connects to to the internet.
All we know is about the server where our website is hosted and the files we put there. We can make a better web by accommodating these unknowns.
Lead Hucklebucker at Wufoo, blogger at CSS-Tricks. AND MORE STUFF ❤❤
I saw a question on Quora asking "What are the steps you take to grow from a 1-3 founder team into a 5-10 sized company?" Although I've gone through that process twice, I was really interested in hearing what others' experiences were like. What changes when you you hire your first employees? What issues of scale arise, and when? How do roles and responsibilities change?
I hope this will be an engaging, ad-hoc panel discussion about the experience and challenges of growing a company.
(If you'd like to make this panel less ad-hoc by volunteering to be on it, please contact me as mgritter at gmail.)
Mark lives in Eagan, MN, but works for a California-based startup.
I'm co-founder of a VC-funded startup named Tintri, based in Mountain View, CA. I've been working at Tintri since May of 2008. Tintri has launched the first two generations of its product, a flash-based storage appliance specialized for virtual machine environments, and is continuing to expand and grow.
My previous startup was Kealia, which was self-funded by David Cheriton and Andy Bechtolsheim. I was with the company from day one in January 2001 through its acquisition by Sun Microsystems in April 2004.
I'm interested in large-scale software design, Internet architecture, startups, games, and poker.
Have you been hurt by a plugin in the past? Don't know where to start looking for your perfect match? We'll simplify the selection process to reveal the must-haves, the most useful and the next great WordPress plugin to capture your heart.
Designer of things, typography nerd, coffee addict, Director of Social Media Breakfast – Minneapolis/St. Paul. Blog: myklroventine.com
Many websites have a mobile application these days. With the mobile revolution there are applications that have a need for both real-time data as well as a way to notify their users. This is also expected by many users that have installed your application.
Implementing push notifications from ZF is easy; especially given the mobile push notification technology. This talk will go over the fundamentals of push notifications (such that we talk protocols), implementing push notifications and best practices of push notifications.
Mike Willbanks is a software engineer manager at CaringBridge, a nonprofit providing free websites that connect people experiencing a significant health challenge to family and friends.
He has more than a decade of experience programming the web with the majority being with PHP. He is a Zend Certified Engineer and focuses on high availability and high performance applications.
Mike organizes the MNPHP User Group and has a passion for knowledge sharing and contributing back to the community.
A bird of feather on emerging tech.
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Do you have a box on Linode for your blog? Maybe a VPS with Slicehost? If you've provisioned a bare VPS from install you know there is a lot to keep in mind. Is it secure? How are you dealing with hack attacks? Is the software up-to-date? You are monitoring your logs right?
In this session I'll walk through a "best practice" session taking a bare Unix box to running a handful of web sites. I'll use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as the example case with a VPS on Linode. The material will be generally applicable to anyone using a Linux/Unix based host and needing to make sure that it is sound for service.
Jamie is COO and CTO of 8thBridge, a pioneering social commerce startup. Previously, he served as CTO for leading financial publishers including the Wall Street Journal Digital Network, Enterprise Media Group of Dow Jones and MarketWatch, Inc. He was the founding CTO of BigCharts, the leading provider of financial tools and information to consumers and financial services companies via the web. In 1999, BigCharts was acquired by MarketWatch and the technology is still used by Dow Jones & Company today. In addition, Jamie has developed and managed products and technologies for properties including Barron’s, Virtual Stock Exchange, Dow Jones Newswires and Dow Jones Indexes.
Tame slow responses, queue long running tasks, have a cup of coffee, query the social graph and meet a couple of nice guys. All this and more can be yours. Learn how to use mongodb as a broker for celery in python. Talk to the graph asynchronously using celery tasks written in python. Read your Tweets to update other internal systems, also in Python. Be more responsive for your users. Responsive web isn't just for UI, it's for life.
Mike is a developer at 8thBridge specializing in social awareness and engagement. He and Paul DeCoursey are the brains behind the Ticketmaster Facebook application featuring graph aware recommendations.
Fringe developer with 16 years of development experience. Front-end, back-end, middle... end, marketing, mobile, social, interactive everything. Is know the world over for his mustache. Hates CAPTCHA because he is a robot.
Learn how to use SQL Server Management Studio's Execution Plans to debug poorly performing queries. Learn about what to look out for and how to resolve many common issues. This session is intended for developers who have little or no experience using Execution Plans to debug performance issues.
I'm a level 65 Data Slayer (a.k.a Senior SQL Server DBA) with Boston Scientific. I have been working with SQL Server for over 12 years and enjoy resolving performance issues. When I'm not diving into data issues, I enjoy Geocaching, podcasting and camping.
I have tool and test equipment
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The best websites are made when specialists work collaboratively, not in silos. Different departments approach projects from distinct frameworks, and personality types complicate things further. At a minimum, team members have to communicate; it’s even better when they get along. Amazing things ship when a team truly collaborates.
In this panel discussion, a dev, front-end dev/designer, UXA, and QA will discuss how to think outside the silo on your next project.
Example discussion topics:
We’ll share real-world tactics to help teams work better and together. We will also ask participants to talk about their own ideas, tips, and experiences.
Software Test Engineer, Clockwork Active Media Systems
Before joining Clockwork, Andrew managed the quality assurance team at a video game company. At Clockwork, Andrew tests websites, apps, and the occasional crumple zone. Prior to working in QA, Andrew managed a musical instrument store, fixed amplifiers, and, as a 7-year old, studied paleontology.
At Clockwork Kristi works on content strategy, social strategy and user experience. Her previous job was as a product and web manager for a financial services company. Before entering the awesome world of web technology, Kristi worked in academia studying international mass communication.
Matt Gray is VP, Director of Technology at Clockwork Active Media Systems.
Matt is enthusiastic about using technology to solve problems and has a knack for quickly identifying requirements and potential solutions. When not clacking away in a terminal session, he enjoys backpacking in the wilderness and photography.
Software Test Engineer, Clockwork Active Media Systems
Before joining Clockwork, Andrew managed the quality assurance team at a video game company. At Clockwork, Andrew tests websites, apps, and the occasional crumple zone.
Prior to working in QA, Andrew managed a musical instrument store, fixed amplifiers, and, as a 7-year old, studied paleontology.
At Clockwork Kristi works on content strategy, social strategy and user experience. Her previous job was as a product and web manager for a financial services company. Before entering the awesome world of web technology, Kristi worked in academia studying international mass communication.
Do any of these ring a bell?
In this session, we will explore our bad habits and solve them with the miraculous tools of the interwebs and mobile devices.
We will end this spectacular session with a discussion from the attendees about productivity apps that make your daily life easier
I would consider myself a goofy geek who loves comp-u-tors and internet. A jack-of-all trades, I can do just about anything. Currently working for Anytime Fitness as a Writer/Designer, I spend most of my time creating and editing content for the sister site, Anytime Health. I am currently obsessing over running, The Hunger Games, and my Canon 7D. I am the founder and blogger of Ms. Giggles and the content manager for Anytime Health.
You need to build an app, and you need it to run everywhere. And you need it now! jQuery Mobile gives you the ability to write once and run everywhere. In this talk, we will discuss jQuery Mobile's advantages and unique features. We will also talk about jQuery Mobile design strategies, highlight many tips along the way, and see how to get up and running quickly.
Brad Broulik is an author and senior developer specializing in enterprise mobile development. Prior to mobile development he was the lead software architect at a financial services organization. His recent book is Pro jQuery Mobile and he blogs regularly at http://bradbroulik.blogspot.com.
Infrastructure as Code, DevOps or insert catchy title here are all things the kids are talking about these days. This session will be for anyone interested in learning the benefits and reasons for infrastructure automation using Opscode Chef.
During this session I will walk you through the basics of starting with Chef. Together we'll walk through the ins and outs of setting up your Chef repository and deploying configuration management and automation to your environment. I'll be happy to answer questions on best practices and use of Chef. When we're done, I'll show you how to launch 10's, 100's or 1000's of machines in minutes, from nothing.
This session should please all levels of experience who are interested in Chef. Start putting more dev in your ops.
[http://www.opscode.com/chef/]
Bryan Brandau is the Manager of Online Operations for bestbuy.com. Prior to his role in Operations, he worked on Best Buy's Open API. During his time at Best Buy he has also architected, developed and operated systems that 140k employees use. Bryan is a proponent of intelligent logging and monitoring, has a devops mindset and lives agile operations. His background includes 9 years experience in retail commerce/ecommerce, systems administration, operations and software engineering.
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Customer acquisition is a lot like dating:
Whatever the path or process, the goal is the same: a rewarding relationship. This seminar will parallel how your customer acquisition process can benefit from good old dating advice.
Whether you’re socially awkward or or a regular Don Juan, my step-by-step process should help even the most passive introverted coder close their first customer. This session will be interactive and not for the humorless.
Curt has a passion for mobile and B2B tech, especially startups. He's help numerous companies over the last 16 years to generate revenue, expand marketshare and earn recognition through pragmatic marketing strategies and tactics.
The flexibility and scalability promises of NoSQL databases makes them an exciting option for designing new systems. By now, NoSQL has been around long enough for many of us to have had a chance to explore it. As a long time SQL guy, I've worked on some non-relational projects but am now designing a service using MongoDB. I'd like to assemble a handful (or so) people who've deployed solutions using non-relational approaches and hear their stories. My primary interest is document databases (e.g. MongoDB, CouchDB) but anyone with a story to tell is welcome. Be prepared to give a quick overview of your project and answer a few questions from the crowd. Let's assume the audience will have at least a "PowerPoint" familiarity with the various NoSQL paradigms (document, key/value, column).
Come prepared to share your success, misconceptions, lessons learned and catastrophic failures.
Email me at jaim@sharpfivesoftware.com if you'd like to share your experiences.
More information about what I do and like to talk about at my blog http:///www.christianoestreich.com.
Nothing will sink your app's reviews like crashes and sluggish performance. Learn how to eliminate crashes and speed up your app from experience gained working on complex iOS apps. In this talk you'll learn tips and tricks that lower your memory usage and weed out crashers. I'll go over Apple's profiling tools and how to best use them. In addition I'll give real world examples of performance optimization and how they apply to your code.
Matt works as an independent consultant building iPhone and iPad apps for clients around the world. Matt is a long time Objective-C programmer with extensive Mac development experience going back to Mac OS X Public Beta (circa 2000). Previously, he has worked at Apple, Garmin, and the code analysis startup Pattern Insight. Matt holds a Computer Science degree from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
He can be found online at http://www.mronge.com or on Twitter as @mronge.
The hottest topic inside the mobile space right now is talent acquisition, or the lack thereof.
Everyone seems to want the brightest individual that the market has to offer. What if we are looking in the wrong location or supplementing our talent pool with only local candidates.
I’ll present how we ramped up our mobile dev team from 6 to 22 in 6 months with all of the highlights and lowlights along the way.
Cliff Robbins is a Mobile Software Development Manager at W3i in Sartell, MN.
This is his first whirl at Management with previous gigs as a .net developer for financial institutions. Due to a non-management background, Cliff has had the opportunity to try out various ideas while leading the team; which has ultimately lead to scaling his team from 1 single agile team into 4 agile teams.
His attitude of being an optimistic realist, along with his passion, is what has helped drive the endeavor.
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