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Christian Renaud pitches Pitch & Grow (Video)
It’s peak Pitch & Grow season in Iowa, and in a new video interview Christian Renaud, a member of the board for the Technology Association of Iowa — the organization that puts on Pitch & Grow — and a participant and panelist in the most recent Pitch & Grow, explains just what that means for…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Neil Blumenthal: Creating that change
“We’re trying to revolutionize the eyewear industry,” Neil Blumenthal, co-founder of Warby Parker, said, “and revolutionize the way people think about for-profits, because we think that for-profits can be catalyst for change – if they’re stake holder centric, if they think about other people other than just their shareholders. And that might be, you know…
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Pin it! Pinterest co-founder added to Thinc Iowa lineup
How about one more? As we’ve been talking about Thinc Iowa for a nearly a year now we’ve been promising an event that will bring eight dynamic “doers” from around the country to Des Moines to spearhead a conversation on how startups and corporations can work together and learn from each other. Today, we’re very…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Erin Ginkens and Nick Seguin
Tune in Tuesday at 2 p.m. for Episode 59 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. This week we will be joined by two dynamic guests, Erin Ginkens (left, photo from linkedin.com), the president of West Des Moines-based Entrepreneurial Technologies, and Nick Seguin (photo from kauffman.org), manager of entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas…
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Events: TEDxOmaha, Pipeline Omaha event, TechBrew DSM & more
Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences …
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Tools for the Trade: Postagram provides personalized postcards
In an era owned by smartphones, tablets and free Wi-Fi, the days of snail mail are becoming a distant memory. But since everyone loves a bit of nostalgia, Sincerely, a company dedicated to merging the old sentimentality of mail with new, ever-changing technology, created Postagram. Postagram is an app available for iPhone and Android devices…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Dan Martell: Work on something bigger
“I guess the one piece of advice I would give anybody,” Dan Martell, co-founder of Flowtown, said, “is that no matter what you’re gonna to decide to work on – whether it be a million-dollar idea or a 10-million-dollar idea or a 100-million-dollar idea – you’re gonna spend the same amount of time doing it.…