Siouxland and the Dakotas

  • Sioux City team’s Pushlee app helps drive customers back into gas stations

    Unless you’re craving a Pepsi or in need of a snack for the road, pay-at-the-pump capabilities have eliminated most drivers’ need for gas station convenience stores. But that doesn’t mean gas station chains aren’t hard at work trying to figure out how to drive customers back inside. Now Blake Anderson and Sean Richardson, the Sioux…

  • Looking for an office? Find the perfect co-working space in your city

    Last year, we published a post about what makes co-working work. Now, in the spirit of remote working—our Founder Friday theme this month—you could say that we’ve had co-working on the brain. If you work remotely or not, finding office space can be a challenge. So we bring you a list of places where remote…

  • Des Moines, Kansas City Startup Weekends scheduled for Nov. 15 to 17

    With the fourth-annual Global Startup Battle just around the corner, two Silicon Prairie communities—Des Moines and Kansas City—have announced Startup Weekends to be held from Nov. 15 to 17. Entrepreneurs from more than 200 Startup Weekends around the world will …

  • Six companies to compete for funding in South Dakota accelerator

    Six South Dakota companies have been selected to to participate and compete in the 2013 Accelerator Program at the South Dakota Technology Business Center…

  • Sioux City team wins first Startup Weekend Spencer

    Morningside College junior Blake Anderson thinks of most of his great ideas in the shower. After scribbling his inspiration down on spare slips of paper, he takes the idea to his partner and sounding board Sean Richardson, a recent Morningside graduate. This time, the idea that struck him and went on to impress the Startup…

  • You’ll be in good company at Big Kansas City

    Big Kansas City represents the bigger picture of entreprenuership. It’s both the culmination of happenings in Kansas City and an opportunity to be immersed in the regional and national entrepreneurial community. We’re excited today to introduce a few of the companies and organizations that are signed up to be a part of our inaugural event.…

  • Innovation Expo aims to connect “suits and shirts” in Sioux Falls

    South Dakota’s Innovation Expo returns to Sioux Falls on Tuesday with a refreshed look and new tagline: “Where suits and shirts connect.” “If you think of the typical tech conference, you have your ‘shirts’ (designers, developers, idea people) and your ‘suits’ (venture capitalists, angel investors, IP lawyers), but Innovation Expo wants to see what connections…

  • Ignite South Dakota, Social Money open house, 1MillionCups and more

    Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings 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…

  • CrowdSavings snaps up Midwest daily deal network Deal Garden

    Omaha-based daily deal network Deal Garden has been acquired by CrowdSavings, a Tampa, Fla. company that operates more than 60 local daily deal sites. With the purchase, CrowdSavings adds six Midwestern cities, including Sioux City, Iowa and Lawrence, Kan., along with a regionally-focused vacation deals site. “We are extremely pleased with the success …

  • Incubator with StartupCity Des Moines ties comes to northwest Iowa

    Leann Jacobsen hopes establishing StartupCity Spencer, an incubator using the same name and approach of a Des Moines incubator, can put the northwest Iowa town of less than 12,000 people on the entrepreneurial map. “With the talented people that reside here …