November 20, 2012

  • Prairie Moves: App for international students wins Corridor pitch contest

    Lead Read: “Creative Corridor Dream Big” – Ready to Go in America!, a pocket guide and mobile app that aims to help international students navigate life in the United States and adapt to American culture, won the Dream Big Grow Here contest in Cedar Rapids. – Iowa’s Creative Corridor blog | Quotable: “I’ve always heard…

  • Steve Greenwood aims for an address book with understanding (Video)

    For Steve Greenwood, the idea that “relationships are complicated” is more than just a truism. Want evidence? Look no further than the spreadsheet of personal contacts that Greenwood meticulously curated for the better part of a decade. At its peak, the document had 7,000 contacts and more than 30 columns of tags. The complicated work…

  • Tools of the Trade: Buffer shares social media posts at an optimal time

    One of the biggest complaints we receive from our clients at 9 Clouds, a social media marketing firm in Sioux Falls, S.D., is …

  • Zoo app Wazoo takes top prize at Startup Weekend Kansas City

    Without proper planning or the right tools, a day at the zoo can become, well, a zoo. Long walks, overlooked attractions and missed events can leave a patron full of frustration. Just ask Kelly Tomlinson. Tomlinson, a Kansas City-based UI designer, recently listened to her roommate complain of all those issues upon returning from a…

  • Welcome to Polsinelli Shughart, one of SPN’s Kansas City Launch Partners

    Today we’re excited to introduce our second sponsor among an amazing group of businesses whose support is making our full-time presence in Kansas City possible. …

  • Dibzees and BettrLife bring in state funds for staff expansion

    Thanks to financial assistance awards announced Friday by the Iowa Econonmic Development Authority, two Iowa startups are preparing to add at least three full-time employees apiece. Dibzees, a penny auction site based in Iowa City, received $500,000 from the Iowa Innovation Acceleration Fund through a royalty agreement. The funding supports the addition of five full-time…