MN approves $50m tax credit for early stage investment in high tech startups

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35 points·philcrissman··8 comments

I'm surprised I haven't heard of any seed accelerator programs in the Twin Cities yet. It's a great area to live in, and MN has some of the sanest governance to be found in the U.S.

There are a few things going on here; I just submitted another story about a very micro seed capital program (minnespark) that was just launched by part of the local tech community: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1230144

There's also the Minnesota Cup; I haven't heard many success stories emerging from it, but I haven't looked into it very hard, either: http://breakthroughideas.org/

There's a great tech community in & around the Twin Cities, and definitely more and more interest and activity toward building a startup culture in this area. Cool stuff is going on.

It helps that we now boast three YC companies: SocialBrowse, FanChatter and Zencoder.

Great if you want to freeze your arse off. When I was there it was 30 below. But still, the people are nice.

Meh. Keeps the bums out. Have you -seen- California?

In a weird twist, today it was 70 degree Fahrenheit in the Twin Cities.

Great, now if Duluth gets picked for the Google Fiber trial (which so many people here are rooting for!) we'll be all set!

Great!

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