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TAI announces 16 companies pitching at Thursday’s Pitch & Grow
The Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) today announced the presenters for Pitch & Grow 5, which will take place from 10:30 a.m.-5 p.m. Thursday at the Des Moines Social Club (400 Walnut St.). Entrepreneurs from the following companies are scheduled to pitch. Appcore (Des Moines) – A company providing global cloud computing …
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Prairie Moves: StartupCity, QuickCal, OneLouder 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Tej Dhawan & Startup Weekend Iowa City ticket giveaway
Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 57 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office in downtown Des Moines. Our guest today is Tej Dhawan (left, from tejdhawan.com), one of the founders of Startup City Des Moines, who will be talking with us about their recent funding announcement. We’ll also be…
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Sporting Kansas City launching sports entertainment company
It’s commonplace to hear stories of startups born out of corporations. But tech companies spun off from soccer clubs? That’s the story behind a brand-new company in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Sporting Kansas City, Kansas City’s Major league Soccer franchise, today is launching a company called Sporting Innovations, which…
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Tools of the Trade: Viddy provides simple tool to share mobile video
With the proliferation of smart phones in people’s hands today, mobile applications have brought new ways to share our everyday lives. Whether through picture or video, a couple swipes of the finger can publish high-quality content to our social networks and online connections. Instagram, a photo-sharing app on the iOS platform, just passed 10 million…
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Startup Weekend launches Startup Foundation, announces board
In partnership with Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Seattle-based Startup Weekend today launched the …