How to Build a Better Prospecting List

Whether you are a young, growing company, or an established organization, if your solution has the ability to target a large range of industries it can be tough to know where to start. Building a lead generation campaign when you don’t know to whom you are selling takes some ingenuity, but it can be done. […]

Word Sentry and Social Net Watcher take top honors at Mira Nominees Pitch Night

Every spring, TechPoint’s monthly Tech Thursday event presented by LightBound and hosted by Faegre Baker Daniels during the month of March becomes Mira Nominees Pitch Night. We invite all of the companies, schools, organizations, teams and startups competing for the state’s top tech honors in the Mira Awards to join us for a fun night […]

Lemonade Day is helping address the need for talent and jobs

As Orr Fellows, my wife Carrie and I both had amazing experiences in and around entrepreneurship at the start of our careers. Those experiences led to me co-founding my own software startup before taking the helm here at TechPoint.   Of course, my wife and boys were the very best things to happen to me […]

** Live Blog ** Building a B2C Business in a B2B Town

This post is a **LIVE blog ** that is being updated in close to real time with the New Economy New Rules event 2013: Tech Stories of the Year. Attributions are not direct quotes but paraphrased chronicling of the discussion.      Shawn Schwegman     CEO, Gusto  Randy Stocklin  CEO, One Click Ventures  Shelly Towns   […]

Indy startups could win up to $25,000 in cash and services through ‘Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs’

There are a number of business plan competitions and entrepreneurship-related contests that come around every year, and anyone willing to support startups with cash and free services gets a big thumbs up from this guy. But the newest program announced last month by Comcast Business — Innovations 4 Entrepreneurs — isn't your average contest, unless […]