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Start-Up Central to put tech startups on display at 80/35 Music Festival
Music fans headed to Des Moines’ Western Gateway Park on Saturday for the 80/35 Music Festival probably have designs on catching Death Cab For Cutie, the concert’s second-day headliner. Other concert-goers may be drawn in by acts like Atmosphere, Greensky Bluegrass or Leftover Salmon. But what about Dwolla? Or BettrLife? And Locusic? That trio, along…
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On roller coaster journey, Rheingold learns to ‘ride it out’ (Video)
Ted Rheingold started Dogster in 2004 with the modest goal of making $500 per month from advertising to help cover rent for the office space he occupied. In his wildest dreams, he imagined the site might attract 10,000 users. Within a couple months, Dogster had put those dreams to shame. By March, the site was…
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Prairie Moves: Dwolla rolls out Places, Want button
Lead Read: “A want button, for all the Places you want Dwolla.” – Ben Milne introduced two new Dwolla features, Places and its Want button. These will help the startup expand their reach and allow users …
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Class project turned app aims to revolutionize crop scouting
Historically, if farmers wanted to check their crops for insects or disease, it was a tedious, inaccurate process. They would carry a couple of guidebooks, hundreds of pages each, to try and identify what they saw, recording observations with handwritten notes and sketches of the field. After completing a crop scouting internship in rural Iowa,…
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100-plus Silicon Prairie startups to follow on Twitter
With nominations for our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards in full swing, we wanted to help spark some ideas for companies that might fit in one of our four awards dedicated to startups – Startup of the Year, New Startup of the Year, Consumer Startup of the Year and B2B Startup of the Year. The list…