July 17, 2012

  • Startups: Showcase your company, product in the Awards’ Startup Alley

    At our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards on August 30, we’re offering a select group of startups the exclusive opportunity show off their product and company. The opportunity, Startup Alley, gives participants a table top space during the opening and closing reception in the Storz Fountain Court. Here, startups can display a laptop and/or mobile device…

  • With paying merchants on board, Shoplr looks to build user base

    Shoplr doesn’t care what you like, whether that means a casual affection or the click of a button. Shoplr cares about what you love. “What was truly in our hearts and minds from the beginning has come out,” said Sam Schill, one of three co-founders of the Ames-based company. Shoplr (think shopping and Doppler) hopes…

  • Join us Thursday in Des Moines for an SPN Meetup with April Kelly

    Thursday from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at The Standard in downtown Des Moines we’re partnering with Omaha author April Kelly to host a meetup unlike any of ours yet. At this meetup, we’re adding a bit of movement to the regular happy hour. You’ll make your way through a series of tapas stations throughout the evening. You’ll…

  • Watch Dwolla and Chirpify founders, Fed VP talk at KCnext event (Video)

    To complement our previous coverage of GO – The Future of Mobile Payments, we present video from the event, which was hosted July 9 in Kansas City, Mo. by KCnext- The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City. At the event, Chirpify founder and CEO Chris Teso, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City senior vice president…

  • CoParent.me aims to help children by helping divorced parents

    No technology can completely free a child from the pain of divorce, but CoParent.me, a Des Moines startup in public beta, hopes to ease the hassle of day to day communication in separated households. Bill Breedlove, founder and CEO of CoParent.me and an attorney in Illinois, encountered divorce on a personal level through family and…

  • Prairie Moves: Dwolla strives to democratize its API

    Lead Read: API Evangelist and TechCrunch praise Dwolla’s new Integration Portal (above). API Evangelist’s Kin Lane wrote: “This is an approach I’ve been long advocating for, and rarely see in API areas.” Quotable: “I knew the company would change, and now it has.” – StartupCity Des Moines’ Tej Dhawan quotting a former customer on the…