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KC inventor’s Shoot A Brew gets Leno love (Video)
The patented product of Derek Hoy, a Kansas City entrepreneur who spends his workweek at Garmin, made its way onto The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on Friday. “This is what we call the Shoot A Brew, this is real,” Leno said during a segment titled “Products for a Better You.” “Let’s say, ah, you’re…
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With Iowa roots, My Online Camp helps coaches from coast to coast
My Online Camp started in 2006 with a single client and a single goal: helping coaches and camp operators promote and manage camps more successfully. Today, the Ames-based startup has 1,100 clients and counting scattered across the country. But the story of the company’s growth starts with a King Kong-sized …
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Tej Dhawan and Emma Peterson
PrairieCast Episode 69 will come to you live today at 2 p.m. The show will feature Tikly’s Emma Peterson (far left) and Startup City Des Moines’ Tej Dhawan (near left). We’ll chat about Startup Weekend’s love story, Dusty Reynold’s question, “can entrepreneurship be taught?” and more. PrairieCast is a live, weekly podcast for which a…
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Q&A: RecBob CEO discusses going full-time with Startup Weekend idea
John Schnipkoweit (left), the co-founder and now former CTO of Ovation Networks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has gone full-time with an idea he first pitched at Startup Weekend Iowa City in October. And he’s not alone. “I’ve sold all of my shares in Ovation Networks to my co-founder,” Schnipkoweit said in an email interview on…