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223 links saved from 2007 to 2026; 211 with a note, 72 in a Weekly Thing.
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- techcrunch.com 22, tech.mn 20, bizjournals.com 14, gigaom.com 10, startribune.com 7
2026
2025
- How HubSpot "Fixed" Retention | Brian Halligan
- Francisco Partners to buy Jamf in $2.2 billion take-private deal
- GoFundMe Launches ‘Giving Funds’ to Make Charitable Giving Easier for Everyone
- Lovable Raises $200M, Valued at $1.8B, Just Eight Months After Launch - Lovable Blog
- WPP Media Mid-Year Global Advertising Forecast Update: $1.08 Trillion in 2025 Ad Revenue and 6% Growth
- The Bank of Starbucks - Of All Trades
- Google I/O 2025: 100 things Google announced
- $70 Million in 60 Seconds: How Insider Information Helped Someone 28x Their Money
- Pokémon Go developer Niantic to sell gaming business to Saudi group
2024
2023
- Shopify is a Great Company!
- Stratasys to Acquire Fellow 3D Printing Company in $1.8B Deal
- Botify Expands Executive Team with Appointment of Charley Hackerson as Chief Revenue Officer
- Stripe’s 2022 annual letter
- Google for Startups Ukraine Support Fund: One year on
- Minneapolis-based Gravie Lands $179M Raise
- Netflix, Shein and MrBeast
- Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster
- QuickNode raises $60M at $800M valuation to become the ‘AWS or Azure of blockchain’
2022
- You’ve met MrBeast, the YouTuber. Now meet Jimmy, the business mogul.
- Eden Prairie Cybersecurity Firm Arctic Wolf Lands $401M in Financing
- Billionaire No More: Patagonia Founder Gives Away the Company
- Great North Ventures Raises $40 Million Fund II
- AssangeDAO Raises $55M in Six Days to Help Liberate WikiLeaks’ Founder
- Minneapolis-based Tech Company Yardstik Lands $8M raise
- Supply Chain Startup Inspectorio Lands $50M Raise
- Virtual pets startup gets VC dollars to expand its crypto-based metaverse
2021
- Seed Rounds At $100mm Post Money
- Discord: Imagine a Place
- Percentage of Hacker News job postings that mention a remote option - Will do stuff for stuff
- Arthur Ventures Raises $375,000,000 in New Capital
- Jumping the SPAC
- Matchstick Ventures Closes $55M Fund
- Rivian raises $2.65B as it pushes toward production of its electric pickup
2020
- Let’s Skim! The Slack/Salesforce Press Release | by Paul Ford | Dec, 2020
- Stripe: Platform of Platforms
- Salesforce buys Slack in a $27.7B megadeal
- Why is Snowflake so Valuable?
- Docker Names Donnie Berkholz to Vice President of Products - Docker Blog
- Snowflake Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
- Our third decade of climate action: Realizing a carbon-free future
- Leadpages taps Jeanette Dorazio, a software veteran, as new CEO
- How Zoom is reclaiming its brand . . . and why it will succeed
- Netflix Creates $100 Million Coronavirus Relief Fund
- Leadpages acquired by Canadian tech company Redbrick; Drip isn't part of the deal
- Viber to open second research and development center in Ukraine | KyivPost
- Reddit opens office in Kyiv to hire Ukrainian tech specialists | KyivPost
- Jamf Software, maker of Apple management software, plans IPO
- Google opens research and development center in Ukraine | KyivPost
2019
- Arthur Ventures closes on two new funds worth $155 million to invest in startups outside Silicon Valley
- Your DNA for Sale: 23andMe, Drug Giant Make $300 Million Deal
- Riot Settles Lawsuit, Will Pay Every Female Employee Since 2014 With $10 Million Fund
- Abilitech Medical raises $7.4 million, with investment from Sofia Fund
- Airbnb Promises to Verify All 7 Million Listings After VICE Report Exposes Scam
- Shopify's Global Economic Impact Report
- The Passion Economy and the Future of Work
- TikTok owner ByteDance's first-half books $7 billion in revenue
- SportsEngine, Inc. Announces Leadership Transition and Record Growth
- Google Contractors Officially Vote to Unionize
- Stripe Corporate Card: The corporate card for fast-growing businesses
- Exclusive: Automattic CEO Matt Mullenweg on what’s next for Tumblr
- Salesforce is buying data visualization company Tableau for $15.7B in all-stock deal
- Apruve Announces New Board Member
- California VC Turns $9 Million into Eye-Popping $6.9 Billion in Uber IPO Jackpot
- The ARPUs of the Big Four Dwarf Everybody Else
- Techstars New Health Care Partner: Announcing UnitedHealthcare Accelerator Powered by Techstars
- Pokémon GO Caught Nearly $800 Million in Global Revenue Last Year, Growing 35% Over 2017
2018
- TECHdotMN Bootstrapped Software Maker Propelware Scooped Up By Right Networks
- How Zapier Reached $35M ARR With This SaaS SEO Strategy
- Google employees and contractors participate in “global walkout for real change”
- Atlassian + Slack | The Official Slack Blog
- Zivix Just Closed A Half Million Dollar Crowdfunding Campaign —TechDotMN
- Fortnite generated a record $318 million in revenue in May
- Microsoft and Flipgrid unite to bring social learning to students around the world
- Microsoft has leapfrogged Alphabet to become the world's third most valuable company
- Amazon Agrees to Buy Smart-Doorbell Startup Ring
- ARK Invest - Big Ideas 2018 - Disruptive Innovation
- The iOS Economy, Updated
2017
- Toronto - The Incredible Rise of Tech
- Field Nation CFO Lillemoe guides tech firm through explosive growth
- Qeepsake - Text Msg Baby Journal
- Jamf to Receive Majority Investment from Vista Equity Partners
- cPrime Announces Acquisition of DevJam
- Fast-growing Code42 software could be a public company within a couple years
- Turning a page: Leadpages co-founder Collins taps his own CEO successor
- The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business
- Pinboard Acquires Delicious
- Airbnb is running its own internal university to teach data science
- Software Engineering Professionals (SEP) Acquires Visual Story Mapping Software, CardBoard
- Salesforce, already committed to hiring 800 in Indianapolis, plans to add 500 apprentices
- Storage Startup Vets Return w/ $8.65m A for Atavium —TechDotMN
- Foodsby Raises $6M To Expand
- Jamf Software Has Record Growth Surpassing $100m Revenue
2016
2015
- 2015 Pacific Crest Private SaaS Company Survey Results (PDF)
- Target to hire 1,000 IT workers
- Dornquast stepping down as CEO of Code42
- St. Anthony: Code42's business 'move' is focused growth with an eye to an IPO
- TECHdotMN Inside LeadPages New Minneapolis Headquarters
- TECHdotMN Seven Startup Videos from MinneDemo 19
2014
- BuzzFeed Opens Minneapolis Engineering Office With Talent Acquisition Of Mobile And Web Development Company Hyper IQ
- Share the Model
- Candor: Dan Grigsby [part 2]
- Slyce-The Want Engine-Acquires Mobile App Agency Drivetrain; Appoints Prominent CTO to Drive Global Market Expansion
- TECHdotMN Drivetrain sold to Toronto shopping tech company Slyce
- What the Second Time SaaS CEOs are All Doing
2013
2012
- Health care Q&A: Scott Danielson, Carewire
- Lending Club
- Trident Capital Update and Areas of Investment Interest
- Manage Your Tech Career - Startup Salary & Equity Compensation
- Exclusive: Inside the Startup-Generating Secrets of Y Combinator
- Over 37 Minnesota tech ventures raised investment capital in Q2 2012
- Sparrow acquired by Google, team to work on "new projects"
- Bitly Raises $15M Led by Khosla Ventures
- Oracle Buys Involver
- 9 Signs youve become a Startup Hipster
- Mobile Is Where The Growth Is
- TST Media snags new VP for next growth phase
- Salesforce.com Set to Buy Buddy Media for More Than $800 Million
- Fred Wilson: We invested in DuckDuckGo for the Reddit, Hacker News anarchists
- Facebook Falls Back to IPO Price
- Red Herring Americas 2012 Presenting Companies
- LinkedIn Acquires Professional Content Sharing Platform SlideShare For $119M
- The state of technology in Minnesota
- CMP.LY (Comply)
- Press 3 for $15 million How Twilio got a touchtone term sheet
- Etsy Hacker Grants: Supporting Women in Technology
- Sophia acquired by Capella Education Company
- Nanoproduct
- Did everybody see what just happened? The pendulum has swung.
- Newsmakers - E-commerce services firm Fluid raises $24 million
- Accel Leads $52.5M Round In Cloud-Based Data Storage And Backup Company Code 42
- Capella University Names Scott Kinney New President
2011
- Early Results: The Open Graph and Music
- El Dorado Ventures backs another Minnesota startup
- OptiMine Software raises $3.6 million
- Zynga Stresses Visual Access to Its Vast Data Volumes
- Shocker: Arrington-Backed Startup Wins AOL/TechCrunch Contest
- After a big win, Naiku looks to the future
- Xcel CEO Fowke gets big pay raise to go along with new title
- TST Media banks $3.5m second round led by El Dorado Ventures
- Step one: skip college. Step two: launch a tech startup
- The Slicehost Story
- Disqus Raises $10 Million For Its Commenting System
- Happy Birthday Kickstarter
- Arthur Ventures
- Can Rob Kalin Scale Etsy?
- Alvenda changes name, plots a big ’11
- How To Build An Incubator That Wins
- Over $60m Raised by Minnesota High Tech Ventures in 2010
- James J. Hill Reference Library to launch business incubator
- Taking Klout to the Next Level
- Quora Signups Exploded In Late December — Then Doubled From That This Week
- Why Facebook is Worth $50 Billion
2010
- Recession-born Fusion Room is coming together
- Silicon Valley Bank's Premium Wine Division
- Facebook Confirms Talent Acquisition of Three Zenbe Employees
- W3i Launches Recharge Studios with $1m+ Fund for iOS Mobile Gaming Startups
- Formative Labs Will Turn Energy Saving Into A Game On The Wings Of Impressive Angels
- Twitter User Ranking Company Klout Hires Product Hot-Shot
- Philip Hotchkiss Joins Klout as Chief Product Officer Measuring Online Influence: The Official Klout Blog
- Reserve Your Name At About.Me
- Ask a VC: Fred Wilson Gives Blunt Answers to Your Questions (TCTV)
- Google Acquires ITA, Leading Online Travel Reservation Company
- The next generation of ad serving for online publishers
- Alvenda Bags $5 Million in VC
2009
- Dow Jones' Sale Price Of Fin Solutions Shockingly Low: $13.5 Million, On $14 Million of Revs
- Digital River wins deal with Ubisoft
- Cargill charitable giving tops $58M in 2009
- Tracked.com
- Technorati raises $2M more
- On Twitter: What's Valuation Got to Do With Revenue?
- Google Buys reCAPTCHA To Aid Book Digitization
- Report: Google to acquire Brightcove for $500 to 700 million
- Dorthy.com: A (Semantic) Search Engine for Dreams
- First Interview After Acquisition With FriendFeed And Facebook
- Google buying On2; New twist in the hope for Open Video
- Innovation in video on the web
- Minnov8 Gang Podcast - Episode 37
- Amazon Acquires Popular iPhone E-Reader App Stanza
- As The Economy Sours, LinkedIn’s Popularity Grows
2008
- Online Ad Revenue
- Part-time apps developers getting rich
- Amazon's Bezos Invests in Twitter
- LinkedIn Raised Its Big Round; $53 Million From Bain and Others; $1 Billion Valuation
- Technorati Confirms New Financing; New Business Focus Coming
- At long last, real-time stock quotes are here
- Become a ProBlogger Premium Sponsor
- New Relic to Monitor Performance of Rails Applications
- Mint Moves Into Investment Tracking
- Google Finance China, new Finance homepage
- Dow Jones Acquires Business Networking Tool Generate
- Introducing the Stock Screener
- VC admits he hates boring PowerPoints
- WeGames 19 Year Old Founder Raises $3 million Financing
- EU To Clear Google-DoubleClick on Tuesday, Google Into Display
- Panther Express Closes $16 Million Series B
- The New Backpack's First 24 Hours
- Things Are Looking Good At Startup Schwag
- The OpenID Train Steams Ahead: Google, IBM and Verisign Said To Be Joining
- Microsoft To Buy Norwegian Search Firm Fast Search & Transfer For $1.23 Billion
2007
- FTC Gives Go-Ahead to Google-DoubleClick Deal
- Viacom, Microsoft In $500 Million Ad, Promo Deal
- Twitter's Summer Funding: $4.8 Million of a $5.4 Million Round
- The Ghosts Of Web 1.0 Are Being Acquired: AllBusiness.com Sells For $55 Million
- AllBusiness.com Acquired By Dun & Bradstreet For $55 Million
- Towards more renewable energy
- Online Video Service Joost Gets Whopping $45 Million Funding