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BitMethod unveils Change, shaves boss’ launch beard
Change is now available for “anyone who wants to ditch their cash register and live a simpler life,” according to the app’s website. Created by Des Moines mobile app firm BitMethod, Change is a restaurant and retail management system with an iPad-based point of sale. A few months ago, we wrote about the app’s launch…
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Events: Women of Innovation, Open Coffee, Startup Weekend and more
Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the goings-on of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. For more, visit our events page for a calendar of upcoming events from us and others…
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Antonio Neves shares three steps to create your own luck (Video)
“If there’s one thing that’s been consistent in everything that I do,” Antonio Neves told the Thinc Iowa audience Oct. 11, “it’s that I am a professional question asker and I am a professional opportunity identifier.” For the next 25 minutes, Neves, who emceed the event, employed both those qualities in a motivational talk to…
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Dwolla to hold Des Moines hackathon Dec. 1-2, EE-I-EE-I-O!
Sillicon Prairie News is teaming up with Dwolla to help the Des Moines-based payments startup hold its first hackathon in The Prairie. Titled Old MacDonald Hackathon …
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Here’s the Global Entrepreneurship Week schedule for the Silicon Prairie
Global Entrepreneurship Week turns 5 this year, and people in 130 countries are getting in on the celebration. Billed by its organizers as “the world’s largest celebration of the innovators and job creators who launch startups that bring ideas to life, drive economic growth and expand human welfare,” GEW is a week-long, worldwide series of…
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Watch the Startup@Kauffman Demo Day live stream
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation begins its celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week today with the second rendition of Startup@Kauffman Demo Day at its Kansas City, Mo. headquarters. For those who can’t attend the event, a live stream (above) will be available throughout the day. The broadcast began around 8:15 a.m. and will run until 2:50…