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Startup Weekend: Now ‘Powered by the Kauffman Foundation’
The overarching Startup Weekend organization, a nonprofit based out of Seattle, has announced the receipt of a grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the largest American foundation with a focus on entrepreneurship. This is exciting news for…
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KANEKO Great Minds Series continues with Josh Cooley of Pixar
This Friday, October 1st, KANEKO will be partnering up with the National Cartoonist Society North Central Chapter to present Josh Cooley, a story artist and director at Pixar Animation Studios. Cooley has contributed to award-winning motion pictures such “Up,” “Ratatouille,” and “Cars.” Cooley’s presentation, titled “Coloring Outside The Lines: And other creative ways to make…
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CEO Bruce Hoberman & co-founder Joe Petsick tell the Proxibid story
(Left: Proxibid CEO Bruce Hoberman and co-founder and CFO Joe Petsick.) Last November, while hundreds of bidders gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan for the auction of Bernard Madoff, the man behind a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, thousands of bidders flocked to Proxibid.com, a website allowing bidders unable…
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Q&A with Doug Lewis on the Iowa Entrepreneurs Conference
Seven of the state’s largest funding organizations are joining forces to put on this year’s iteration of the annual Iowa Entrepreneurs Conference and Venture Forum next Tuesday and Wednesday, October 5-6, at the Polk County Convention Center in Des Moines. The host organizations include Iowa…