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Prairie Moves: Fundle, Kickanotch, Gigabit Challenge and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email …
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With automated email, NotifyWorks hopes to keep deadlines in mind
If the team at NotifyWorks has its way, cluttered file drawers will no longer be the place that memory of important dates and deadlines goes to die — not if the owners of those file drawers use NotifyWorks first, anyway. NotifyWorks …
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TableNabbr works to remove the hassle from last-minute dining out
Thanks to TableNabbr, Erin Ginkens now travels from Des Moines restaurant to Des Moines restaurant to Des Moines restaurant for different — and far less frustrating — reasons than she did once upon a time. Ginkens is the president of Entrepreneurial Technologies, the Des Moines-based company that today launched TableNabbr, an app that helps potential…
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Vote for SPN and “Panels from the Prairie” in the SXSW PanelPicker
With more than 3,200 submissions, the competition is as fierce as ever to land a panel at next year’s South by Southwest Interactive, but through Friday you have a chance to help out your Silicon Priarie freinds with a quick “thumbs up.” To vote for one of the seven “Panels from the Prairie” submissions, two…
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The Dream Big Central Iowa winner is … Real Estate Fan Pages
Edging out second place by more than 500 votes, Matthew Smith of Real Estate Fan Pages is the winner of Central Iowa division of MyEntre.Net’s statewide Dream Big Grow Here contest. Smith, the owner of S&G Real Estate Investments, will take home $5,000 from the local contest facilitated by the Business Innovation Zone and move…
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Why this student’s startup experience trumps internships
Many computer science and software engineering majors start looking for internships during their sophomore and junior years. They go to career fairs, usually dressed in a suit and tie, or whatever the female equivalent is, shake hands with and smile at people from large companies and talk about how their coursework is somewhat related to…