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Christian Renaud announces Startup City Des Moines
Yesterday afternoon, local entrepreneur and startup enthusiast Christian Renaud (left, photo from christianrenaud.com) gathered a group of 20 or so people in the back half of Java Joes coffee house in downtown Des Moines. The focus of the gathering, which I attended, was to explore the need as well as judge the interest level of…
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Wanted: Daredevil Spring Intern
We’re gearing up to do big things in 2011 and we’re looking for a college student to join our team from January through May. In that time period, we’ll be significantly increasing our content production, so we need a student who is either in journalism school or has a passion for writing. We’ll also be…
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TAI now accepting nominations for 2011 Prometheus Awards
The Technology Association of Iowa’s annual Prometheus Awards banquet is still several months away but nominations opened today for the 15 categories to be honored. According to TAI, this awards showcase honors companies and individuals who represent the best and brightest in technology and business and have demonstrated outstanding leadership and innovation. Here are the…
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First Look: Halo Institute’s new home at Creighton
This past October, Halo Institute, a nonprofit business incubator now wholly run by Creighton University College of Business, relocated to Creighton University’s campus at 2500 California Plaza. Steven Adams (pictured left) and I stopped by yesterday to interview Halo’s new director and entrepreneur in resident, John Blazek (pictured right). We have a story in the…
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Applications for SXSW Accelerator due this Friday, Dec. 10th
As you know, we’re huge fans of South by Southwest Interactive, which takes place each March in Austin. For the past few years we have made the trek down…
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Annual Report: Culture of Risk Taking
Over the next several weeks, we’ll expand on each of the items that are to be included in the inaugural “Silicon Prairie Annual Report,” which we’ve described as a “look back at the previous year in the Silicon Prairie region, taking into account such metrics as company formations, product releases and developments, investment and M&A…