Minnov8 Gang 377 – Don’t Hire Me Bro!

You may remember the protestor at Secretary John Kerry’s talk at U of Florida and that guy wouldn’t leave so the cops Tased him as he yelled out, “Don’t tase me, bro!!” The video of the guy screaming that out became an internet meme in 2007 and so it was the first thing that came to mind when we discussed one of our first Minnesota tech stories called High-tech Talent Grab. The focus of the story was about Twin Cities companies essentially being raided for their tech talent.

But is that apparent tech-talent-raiding a good thing or a bad one? Is it really happening? Find out what’s really going on in this week’s show.

Hosts: Steve Borsch, Tim Elliott and Phil Wilson

Music: Latin by beatfn under a CC by 3.0 License

The Podcast

Past Week’s Top Minnesota Stories

• Minnesota Developers Conference recap


• Target sets up website to invite pitches from startups


• Best Buy will highlight products by start-ups in section of store, website


• Coding school to award 16 Twin Cities programming scholarships


• SportsEngine Acquires Fundraising Platform RallyMe


• In St. Paul, Google Trekker goes where Google Street View can’t
  
  
  
  • Walk the Ryder Cup Like the Pros
    
    
    
    • Ryder Cup Explorer
    
    
    
    
  
  
  
  


• 16 Podcasting Tips From 4 Podcasters

Other Top Tech Stories

• Google
  
  
  
  • Exclusive: Google plans to launch Andromeda on a ‘Nexus’ Huawei tablet, ‘Pixel’ laptop
  
  
  • Tracking Google’s 10/4 event: Everything from Google I/O is finally ready
  
  
  • How Google Plans to Take Down Amazon’s Echo
  
  
  
  


• Facebook At Work is launching next month


• Plex partners with Amazon to launch a hardware-free media server, Plex Cloud


• Raspbian Pixel is a much-needed beautification for the Raspberry Pi’s biggest distro


• Mentions: Memrise app

Cool Thing of the Week

• Phil: Revolar


• Tim: Blink wireless security cameras


• Steve: Signal, the Encrypted Chat App, Is Now Available on the Desktop
  
  
  
  • Chrome extension
  
  
  • Signal for Android
  
  
  • Signal for iPhone
  
  
  
  

Upcoming Events

• The Complete List of 250+ Tech, IT, and DevOps Conferences in 2016
  
  
  
  • The list as a Google spreadsheet
  
  
  • 32 conferences for Mac and iOS professionals in 2016
  
  
  
  


• MN Blogger Conference, Saturday, Oct 15th, Concordia U – St Paul


• U of MN’s Cyber Security Summit 2016, JWMarriott (MOA), October 11-12


• Minnesota Venture Conference, Oct 13th, Mpls Cnv Ctr


• Converted 2016 by Leadpages, Oct 18th, Depot Renaissance Hotel, Mpls


• IoT Hack Day, October 22, Minnetronix


• Gamer’s Rhapsody 2016, Nov 18th, Bloomington