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June 17, 2014

  • Tej Dhawan named one of 2014’s Passport to Prosperity honorees

    The Iowa International Center announced today that StartupCity Des Moines principal Tej Dhawan will be named one of the organization’s 2014 Passport to Prosperity honorees. The award recognizes Iowa immigrants…

  • If you missed Sprint Accelerator’s demo day, they put on quite the show

    The energy inside the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts was palpable Thursday as about 1,700 people poured into the space. The tittering of the crowd created a dull roar, muffled only by the many levels of the Center’s atrium, still audible from inside the venue’s plush auditorium. The crowd gathered not for a performance…

  • DJ Tres pours Big Omaha inspiration into (drips) in Council Bluffs

    Black coffee once nursed artists, freethinkers and entrepreneurs during the Age of Reason only to be later drowned by a green, twin-tailed mermaid in a sea of milk and syrup. Now Très Johnson, the owner of (drips), is aspiring to breathe new life into it. “Lattes can go f*ck themselves,” Johnson said on a recent…