Introducing the tech.mn Contributor Network, the caller task from tech.mn amplifying voices of the Minnesota tech and startup community. I'm not a founder. I've ne'er taken a tiny spark of an thought and painstakingly refined and refined (and refined and refined...) it until *poof* a concern exists. Work? Sure. I've done plentifulness of that. But that precise peculiar laminitis spark is thing I'm not personally acquainted with. But I'd person to person my caput beauteous heavy successful the soil to not spot those sparks igniting each crossed our community. Robots, SaaS products, and empanadas (oh my!) are popping up crossed the scenery of Minnesota startups, and condensing the breadth of innovation down to a paltry 3 items does the full country a superior disservice. Pitch AIs, charitable giving and redeeming services, BNPL providers, healthcare juggernauts, apps that crook scoping retired caller homes into a Tinder-like experience, virtual world specialists... With each instauration comes a caller and refreshing enactment of innovation to our state, and that's undoubtedly worthy celebrating. Even better? Behind each task is simply a real, breathing, honest-to-goodness quality being. Each of those founders has lived experiences, expertise, (probably) immoderate embarrassing stories, advice... Simply put, they each person a voice. Those voices are what the tech.mn Contributor Network is each about. High-value contented consecutive from the radical who are the startup community. Every Tuesday and Thursday, you tin number connected a caller and engaging Contributor nonfiction connected the beforehand leafage of tech.mn tackling everything from tricky topics similar who should prime up a check during a founder/investor luncheon gathering to applicable how-tos connected penning a forwardable email. We assembled a unit of Contributors to assistance propel the Contributor Network done its archetypal phase. Each idiosyncratic has a unsocial position and country of thought enactment that volition assistance marque tech.mn your go-to tract (at least) 2 days a week. And the amusive doesn't halt erstwhile the leafage stops scrolling. Head to Twitter and LinkedIn to dependable your opinions, stock your ain experiences, and driblet a fewer gifs (why not, right?). You are arsenic overmuch a portion of this arsenic tech.mn is. I'm not a laminitis and, let's conscionable telephone a spade a spade, you astir apt don't attraction a full batch astir what I person to say. But determination are a lot of founders close present successful our freezing dark fantastic state. And the tech.mn Contributor Network is the spot to perceive from them.
Alex oversees the contented produced for BETA, Twin Cities Startup Week, and tech.mn. When he’s not penning oregon editing, there’s a bully accidental he’s enjoying a refreshing brew and explaining the merits of dense metallic (of which determination are many).