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  • National Entrepreneurship Week: This video sums it up

    Although this video wasn’t commissioned by the organization behind National Entrepreneurship Week (February 20-27), I’m confident it sums up their mission quite well.

  • Comments of the week: SEO, video props, Yahoo! in Nebraska, and more

    We love comments. Discussion that takes place on our site inevitably spurs conversation offline, and we think that is very important to fulfilling our mission of building and fostering community. So, with inspiration from the authors of Venture Hacks, we’re rolling out a new Friday morning feature: Comments of the week. Today, however, I decided…

  • Des Moines entrepreneur John Ruan remembered

    John Ruan, one of Des Moines’ most prominent entrepreneurs, passed away last Saturday at the age of 96. John was an example to everyone in our community’s creative class of the heights of success that can be reached as an entrepreneur and an innovator. John’s entrepreneurial story began at the age of 17 when he…

  • SPN contributor recounts his experiment, PickMyNHLTeam.com

    Check out The Post SD, “South Dakota’s home for journalism,” to hear the lessons learned by one of contributors, John T. Meyer of Sioux Falls, from his crowd sourcing experiment, PickMyNHLTeam.com. Here’s the start of Post editor Heather Mangan’s article, which includes a video interview with John.

  • Daniel Shipton to be a guest on IPTV’s The Iowa Journal

    Des Moines-based entrepreneur Daniel Shipton, CEO of BitMethod and Director of Operations at Impromptu Studio, will be a panelist on tonight’s episode of The Iowa Journal on Iowa Public Television. Daniel joins a diverse group of Iowans to discuss the show’s topic, What’s Iowa’s Future? The other panelists are former NBC News and Iowa Board…

  • Top five videos of 2009

    Looking back over last year, 2009 was truly amazing! We highlighted an unbelievable amount of entrepreneurs, innovators and creatives. The following five videos were the most viewed interviews we conducted last year. We wanted to pull them off the shelf and share …

  • The top 20 most viewed posts of 2009

    With 2009 in the books and big things in 2010 just around the corner – the launch of our redesigned site next Thursday – I’m excited to share with you our top 20 most viewed posts of 2009, ranked by number of pageviews. (Thanks to the folks at 37Signals for the idea for this post.)…

  • The Nadas’ year-long recording project reaches completion

    One band that is taking an innovative approach to the process of making an album is The Nadas [link thenadas.com], Des Moines-based roots rocker, in their new project Almanac [link thenadas.com/almanac]. I recently had the chance to sit down with one of the band’s founders, Jason Walsmith [twitter: @thenadas], at the Authentic Records [link: authenticrecords.com]…

  • Andrew Marinkovich photographed tenants of Empty Room

    This past May, the crew from Malone & Co. really impressed me when they photographed the events of Big Omaha. It was the first time I had encountered their work and I’m glad I did, I’ve since followed it on and off through their blog. Their latest post came from Andrew Marinkovich, but I think…

  • Sunday funnies from Jeff Koterba

      All images used with permission. The cartoon above is by Omaha cartoonist Jeff Koterba, whose work regularly appears in the Omaha World-Herald. When John Henry Müller of What Cheer was showing me his latest project a couple month ago, Jeff’s website, I got a kick out of the above cartoon as well as the…