On May 6, Best Buy CTO and Geek Squad Founder Robert Stephens posted to his blog an article titled
A Few Key People in Minneapolis/St. Paul Can Make a Huge Difference.The long post is a call to entrepreneurs that includes a ten-point "recipe" for the Twin Cities startup community.
It was an interesting rhetorical move, as the text is a repost of
an almost identical post by Mark Suster on TechCrunch � about Seattle.
Inspired, Stephens asked permission to post the copy, swapping out the names of the cities, universities, companies, and startups for local Twin Cities ones.
"His thoughts really apply to most cities in the US, if not the world," writes Stephens of Suster's post in his introduction.