About
The podcast for and about the startups and entrepreneur scene in Minnesota, with Todd Emmel and Garrick Van Buren as your hostsFollowing
What are You Working On? We want to hear about the projects you’re working on, share with you what we’ve been working on, and both leave with new local projects to evangelize.
The Bulldog in NE
401 East Hennepin Avenue
Minneapolis, MN 55414
Wednesday, July 14th, 7pm-10pm
Organized by Cold Start’s Todd Emmel and Garrick Van Buren.
What are You Working On? Start practicing your elevator pitch, for the second Cold Start Happy Hour, we’re meeting in The Happy Gnome’s back patio in St. Paul. We want to hear about the projects you’re working on, share with you what we’ve been working on, and both leave with new local projects to evangelize.
Monday, April 19th, 7pm-9pm
Organized by Cold Start’s Todd Emmel and Garrick Van Buren.
Kick off 2010 by joining Minnesota’s tech startup community for drinks and conversation at newly opened CoCo Collaborative in St. Paul’s Lowertwon.
Monday, January 11th, 7pm-9pm
Organized by Cold Start’s Todd Emmel and Garrick Van Buren.
Dan Grigsby from MobileOrchard, discusses; how he’s building a comfortable life for himself with a combination of projects, what’s lacking in the Minnesota tech startup community, and why that isn’t a problem. [55 minutes]
Ben Moore from WorkSimple, discusses how, after almost 3 years into his funded startup, his company changed direction, branding, and almost everything else.
Cold Start’s very own Todd and Garrick will be in attendance and will be announcing some very big news. Hope to see you there.
Your Startup Step 1: Prototyping and Insulation.
The podcast for Minnesota’s internet startups with Todd Emmel and Garrick Van Buren
About Cold Start
Garrick Van Buren is President of Working Pathways, Inc. a web application strategy and design company. He has assisted companies like Sun Microsystems, Target, Orbitz.com, and countless start-ups in developing and maintaining a customer-centric web presence. Garrick co-founded and contributes to the MNteractive.com and PodcastMN.com communities, and continues to publish one of the first podcasts – The First Crack Podcast. Garrick also built Kernest – the first web font licensing service.
Todd Emmel is the founder of Slantwise, a web design and Ruby on Rails development shop. Slantwise has worked on creating applications for a wide variety of clients, from large corporations to start-ups. Along the way, Slantwise produced its own apps, in which a few have been “spun out”, notably Tumblon and ZenCoder. Todd also was a co-founder in FanChatter, accepted into Y-Combinator (Summer ‘09) and spent a few months in sunny California.
