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Catching up with Ben Milne from Dwolla
Ben Milne, founder of Des Moines-based Dwolla, a peer to peer payment platform, will be the speaker at this month’s Cornstalks meeting, happening Thursday, September 30, at the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Earlier today, I caught up with Ben to get an update on the company, their money transfer service and the founder himself. Silicon…
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Prairie Moves: SkyVu Pictures, Oxide Design, 9 Clouds Inc & more
(Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…
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Prairie Moves: Catchfire Media hired two, Halo Institute covered and more
(Photo by BriYYZ on Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…
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Dwolla makes major enhancements to its money transfer service
I recently caught up with Ben Milne, founder of Des Moines-based online money transfer service Dwolla, to hear about his startup’s recent major enhancements: * HUB pages * Recurring payments * An Application Programming Interface (API) Ben describes the enhancements in the following exchange: Silicon Prairie News: What exactly are HUB pages within Dwolla? How…
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Dwolla featured on PCMag.com
PCMag.com, the digital version of PC Magazine, featured an article about Des Moines-based financial startup Dwolla on Monday. The article profiles Dwolla’s money transfer service and includes quotes from company founder Ben Milne. founder Ben Milne. Dwolla Takes on PayPal in Calif., Iowa
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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…
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PrairieCast: Ben Milne of Dwolla
In the second episode of PrairieCast we have our first guest, Ben Milne of cash-transfer startup Dwolla. Ben discusses entrepreneurship in Des Moines, Dwolla’s expansion to California, and what he’s learned since his company launched late last year. Additionally, we premiered a new “Week in Review” segment where Andy Brudtkuhl and I discuss the stories…
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Dwolla announces California expansion
Cash transfer startup Dwolla has announced that they will be expanding to their second state on March 1, 2010 when they open up their service to consumers and merchants…
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Dwolla launches in Iowa
Dwolla, a web-based money transfer system based in Des Moines, officially emerged from beta today with the launch of the public system in Iowa. I first interviewed their founder, Ben Milne, at Highlight Midwest and learned about their product and plans for the future. Here’s their official press release on the launch: Dwolla to Launch…
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SPN interviews Ben Milne of Dwolla
One Des Moines startup that recently burst onto the scene is Dwolla, a web-based technology for transferring money from one user to the next. Ben Milne, Dwolla’s founder, was a speaker at the recent Highlight Midwest event and graciously gave me a few minutes of his time to talk about his new venture. Dwolla is…