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Meet the 10 teams of the inaugural Iowa Startup Accelerator
While Monday marked the first official day of the Iowa Startup Accelerator in Cedar Rapids, it also meant the public would finally find out which teams were selected to be part of its inaugural class. “This is a big day for Iowa’s entrepreneurial ecosytem,” Geonetric CEO and Iowa Startup Accelerator organizer Eric Engelmann told media…
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Seed Here helps produce four-day road tour with AOL’s Steve Case
Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Seed Here Studio announced today it will partner with Revolution and UP Global to present the “Rise of the Rest” road tour with AOL co-founder Steve Case. While the four-day, four-city tour won’t stop in the Silicon Prairie, co-founders Amanda Styron and Andy Stoll say the trip helps continue Seed Here’s mission…
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EntreFEST arrives on Wednesday: 5 things to know before it begins
(Guest post by Amanda Styron, co-founder and CEO of Seed Here Studio and one of the organizers behind EntreFEST.) EntreFEST is a celebration of those who make Iowa awesome: the entrepreneurs creating the future prosperity, vibrancy, companies and communities of our state. Part summit, part festival and part resource hub, there’s a lot happening at…
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Cedar Rapids’ Vault launches “100” project to track community’s growth
Earlier this summer, Cedar Rapids-based Vault Coworking and Collaboration Space launched the Vault 100 project. The mission is simple: Over the next year, Vault hopes to connect 100 entrepreneurs, produce 100 events and gain 100 members—while working toward launching 100 startups over the next few years. “We decided to launch the Vault 100 to help…
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Cedar Rapids’ Vault to partner with Geonetric for new location
Last week Vault announced that come spring 2014, its coworking and collaboration space will relocate to a new home. Just in time for the company’s second birthday celebration, the coworking space will partner with health care software company Geonetric to create a space for creatives and tech startups alike in Iowa’s Creative Corridor …
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Seed Here celebrates second birthday with Cedar Rapids’ Vault Coworking
Seed Here will celebrate its second birthday––which technically falls on Independence Day––and the “success of the East Coast of the Silicon Prairie” …
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Q&A: RecBob CEO discusses going full-time with Startup Weekend idea
John Schnipkoweit (left), the co-founder and now former CTO of Ovation Networks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has gone full-time with an idea he first pitched at Startup Weekend Iowa City in October. And he’s not alone. “I’ve sold all of my shares in Ovation Networks to my co-founder,” Schnipkoweit said in an email interview on…
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Prairie Moves: Sojern, Annie Sorensen, Wade Arnold and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Guest Post: Answering Scott Case’s challenge to the Silicon Prairie
At Thinc Iowa in Des Moines last month, Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and founding CTO of priceline.com, described the mission of the Startup America Partnership. Initiated by the White House but operating as an independent, private-sector entity, the Startup America Partnership is dedicated to growing more resources for entrepreneurs in the…
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Vault open to Wednesday coworking, set for full-scale launch in November
Downtown Cedar Rapids is getting an office space like it has never seen before. Vault, a coworking and collaboration space located on the fifth floor of the historic Guranty Bank Building (302 3rd Ave SE), is offering free community workspace every Wednesday in August for area entrepreneurs and creatives with plans for a full business…