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Washington University team builds out prototype to win first GlobalHack
A team of current and former Washington University students—aka The Force—hacked their way to $50,000 at the first-ever GlobalHack event held this past weekend. More than 200 developers, designers and entrepreneurs dropped into St. Louis’ Union Station from Friday night until Sunday afternoon to tackle a singular task: create an app for sales-management company TopOPPS…
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Drive Capital announces $250M fund focused on Midwest investments
Growing up, Chris Olsen didn’t plan on staying in his hometown of Cincinnati. “It’s kind of an unlikely turn of events that we ended up here,” Olsen told Silicon Prairie News …
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Applications for annual Pappajohn student competition now open
Calling all Iowa college students: Applications for the annual Pappajohn New Venture Student Business Plan Competition are now open. Sponsored by John Pappajohn and Equity Dynamics Inc., the competition is open to all full-time college or university students in Iowa who are interested in starting their own business. Students will first compete regionally with three $500 grants…
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Knoda taps Golden Tate, opendorse athletes for Super Bowl predictions
Before the Super Bowl had even kicked off, Kansas City prediction-software startup Knoda was a winner. Teaming up with fellow Silicon Prairie startup opendorse—a platform for brands to have athletes market products through social media—Knoda was able to get its word out through the …