Business Record takes close look at Des Moines startup scene
Our friends at the Business Record ran several stories in their most recent issue highlighting the startup community in Des Moines, and like we did with Lynn Hicks’ article in the Des Moines Register last week, we wanted to make sure our audience saw them as well. In the first article, writer Kyle Oppenhuizen interviews…
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Our friends at the Business Record ran several stories in their most recent issue highlighting the startup community in Des Moines, and like we did with Lynn Hicks’ article in the Des Moines Register last week, we wanted to make sure our audience saw them as well. (Lynn’s article: “Des Moines Register: ‘Why is it so hard to start a business in Iowa?’“)
Silicon Valley, it’s not. Silicon Prairie? Des Moines is getting closer. The technology start-up culture in Greater Des Moines is improving, according to local experts who either help or have witnessed start-ups get off the ground.
In the second article, writer Todd Razor writes about what the success of Ben Milne‘s startup Dwolla can have on the local entrepreneurial ecosystem.
More Milnes
How Ben Milne’s success at Dwolla could inspire risk-averse Iowans to take the tech start-up plunge
By Todd Razor
The exponential growth of Ben Milne’s Dwolla Corp. has attracted mega attention in the past eight months, and the technology start-up company’s apparent success could spur the area’s entrepreneurial-minded employees to follow in Milne’s footsteps.
In the last story, Oppenhuizen gathers thoughts from Colwell, Renaud and Stineman on Milne and Dwolla specifically.
Finding inspiration from Milne, Dwolla
Ben Milne and Dwolla have provided a clear start-up success story in Greater Des Moines.
By Kyle Oppenhuizen
Others have taken notice, to the point that those involved in the technology start-up scene in Des Moines use Dwolla as an example that it can be done here. It’s a two-fold effect, they say. Not only are people with ideas more likely to take a risk, but they’re more likely to find funding. Now the trick is leveraging that into more successful tech start-ups.
This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »
Our friends at the Business Record ran several stories in their most recent issue highlighting the startup community in Des Moines, and like we did with Lynn Hicks’ article in the Des Moines Register last week, we wanted to make sure our audience saw them as well. (Lynn’s article: “Des Moines Register: ‘Why is it so hard to start a business in Iowa?’“)
