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Pipeline representatives to present Thursday night at Cornstalks
Representatives from Pipeline, a Kansas City, Kan.-based regional entrepreneurial fellowship, are scheduled to present Thursday night at Cornstalks, a monthly forum hosted by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce for people interested in high-growth entrepreneurship. Thursday’s event gets underway with networking at 6:30 p.m. and features a Pipeline presentation at 7:30. Cornstalks takes place at…
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Prairie Moves: Business Journal talks entrepreneurship with Peter deSilva
Lead Read “Up Close: Peter deSilva, president of UMB Bank” – The Kansas City Business Journal’s Alyson Raletz interviews Peter deSilva, the champion of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 initiative to make Kansas City America’s “most entrepreneurial city.” Quotable “What I’m trying to get at, in what feels like ten billion…
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Banno to receive $2 million in loans, make 20-30 hires
As he wrapped up a phone interview Monday afternoon, Banno CEO Wade Arnold expressed a bit of self-effacing gratitude for the coverage of his company, which, as he put it, hails from “the cornfields” of Cedar Falls, Iowa. The comment was at once completely sincere and utterly misleading. There’s no question Arnold appreciated the coverage.…
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Help us welcome AOL co-founder Steve Case to Thinc Iowa 2012!
To round out our Thinc Iowa 2012 speaker slate, we couldn’t be more excited to announce the addition of three entrepreneurs, including Steve Case, co-founder and former CEO of AOL. Case, a pivotal figure in the evolution of the internet, led AOL to its peak and negotiated the company’s merger with Time Warner, a deal…
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Iowa part of inaugural Google for Entrepreneurs Week
Google on Monday announced Google for Entrepreneurs, an umbrella effort of its programs and partnerships that support startups and entrepreneurs around the world. To kick off this effort, the internet giant Sunday began hosting its first annual Google for Entrepreneurs Week, 33 events across 13 countries. Among those events is a Google tools and products…
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Congratulations to the six winners of Thinc Iowa tickets
Last week, we announced that the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the top sponsor of Thinc Iowa 2012, would give away six tickets to our upcoming event. To enter, individuals were asked to answer this question: “How can the Silicon Prairie region (in and around Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City) better collaborate to improve conditions…