MinneBar 14 Recap
The annual MinneBar event, hosted by non-profit Minnestar, is the largest bar camp-style conference in the country. Saturday, April 27th was the fourteenth incarnation of this highly anticipated event, and it did not disappoint. How highly anticipated was it? Tickets were released in two waves this year, and the first wave sold out in under […]
Great North Labs at CES
CES, the massive annual Consumer Electronics Show, is taking over Las Vegas from January 8-11. This year there are 182,000 attendees, 4,400 exhibiting companies, 1,000 speakers, and more than 2.7 million square feet of exhibit space. Among the companies are two Great North Labs portfolio companies, Misty Robotics and Glowe. Misty Robotics is a customizable personal […]
Dec.-Jan.: Top Posts from 2018, pepr, Glowe, and Misty Robotics
Carried Interest: Top Posts from 2018 New Year’s means new content! But before we iterate based on feedback, let’s take a look at what the Great North Labs audience liked, with theTop Posts from 2018. Top topics included Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg, IoT, Venture Capital Investing, and the Midwest Startup Ecosystem, and encompassed white papers, articles, and blog posts. Read the full article here. Great North Labs at CES The Consumer Electronics […]
IoT 3.0
IoT and Analytics – Organizing the Industrial Internet Figure 1: The third revolution: IoT and Analytics. [Image credit: General Electric] The Evolution of IoT – Where we Came From The first generation of IoT systems (IoT 1.0) was built mostly with data collected from IP-based sensors by monitoring applications. Whether standalone or embedded […]
Great North Labs Newsletter – December 2017
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you and your families. We are excited to report that we are now ready to begin making investments out of our fund into regional high growth startups! We will share updates on our new portfolio companies in future newsletters. Upcoming Startup School Events -Lean Startup Bootcamp -Date: Monday […]