March 26, 2012

  • Dwolla co-founder Shane Neuerburg ‘handing over the keys’

    In a personal blog post on Friday, Dwolla technical co-founder and CTO Shane Neuerburg announced that he is no longer working for the Des Moines-based online cash transfer startup. “It has been one heck of a roller coaster ride over the last (almost) 4 years,” Neuerburg wrote. “What started as a project in my town…

  • Breaking down the Iowa angel tax credit

    During the 2011 legislative session, the Iowa General Assembly approved an annual $2 million allocation of state tax credits for investments in qualifying businesses, often referred to as angel tax credits. On March 15, 2012, the Iowa Department of Economic Development released the application form for the credits. However, for investments made in 2011, the…

  • Kauffman fellow Wilbanks explores KC’s Fiber opportunity (Video)

    The second installment of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Google Fiber Speaker Series did little to lower an awfully lofty bar set in the series’ first session. John Wilbanks, who’s a senior fellow in entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation and an expert on open content, open data and open innovation systems, delivered the second …

  • High school freshman launches full-screen web browsing app

    We have a second “studentpreneur” story to share in the span of a couple of weeks. On Thursday, the Des Moines Register wrote about Jake Taylor, a 15-year-old who took a mobile app from prototype to profit as part of a class project. Taylor, a freshman in Earlham, a town of about 1,300 that is…

  • Four students take home prizes from inaugural Iowa State pitch contest

    Four Iowa State University students who pitched their business ideas last week at a new pitch competition walked away with cash in their pockets and a stamp of approval for their concepts. The Entrepreneurship and Innovation Learning Community hosted its inaugural Innovation Pitch Competition on March 20. The competition was open to students from all…

  • Savvy college students: Register for the April 4 Startup Job Crawl

    When I started my senior year, the term startup was foreign to me. It wasn’t until a few months before I started my spring internship at Silicon Prairie News that I started to get a feel for what a startup really is and the impact entrepreneurship can have on a community. Once I started going…

  • Events: Startup Drinks, Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference, more

    Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening …