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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Brad Dwyer and John T. Meyer
Tune in today at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 40 of PrairieCast. We’ll be joined by guests Brad Dwyer, founder of Hatchlings and John T. Meyer, co-founder of 9 Clouds and Sioux Falls contributor to Silicon Prairie News. PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, that features round table-style discussion of the top issues in…
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Brad Dwyer: Risks produce big rewards for Hatchlings
(The following is a guest post by Brad Dwyer of Hatchlings.) I have found that one of the most important things to do as an entrepreneur is to mix things up every once in a while. Most of the time your new ideas are going to flop, but every once in a while you’ll hit…
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What’s a successful viral app look like? How about a six-hour drive?
On Monday we posted a story about Hatchlings running a charity campaign called “You Play, We Pay.” Hatchlings, which can be described as a virtual egg hunt inside of Facebook and other online apps, plans to give a total of $60,000 to three causes. In our story, Hatchlings founder Brad Dwyer told us…
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Hatchlings launches ‘You Play, We Pay’ charity drive
Brad Dwyer, founder of the popular social app Hatchlings, isn’t content to concentrate solely on improving the gaming elements of his product. Instead, he recently launched a charity fundraising drive, called “You Play, We Pay,” with a goal of giving away a total of $60,000 to three causes. In a recent email interview, Dwyer told…
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Hatchlings by the numbers
In preparation for his article on Hatchling’s founder Brad Dwyer, “With Facebook app, Brad Dwyer hatches career as ISU undergrad,” Geoff received a list of stats from Dwyer that could be used to show the Facebook app’s popularity, which is described as “a year-round egg hunt and virtual pet game.” The only stat…
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With Facebook app, Brad Dwyer hatches career as ISU undergrad
Brad Dwyer, 22, launched his entrepreneurial career around a Facebook game he put together while procrastinating instead of studying for a test at Iowa State University in 2008. “It was just something that I programmed over a weekend and put out there to see what kind of reception it would get,” Dwyer said. The game,…
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Announcing our partnership with Juice
When you’re out picking up a copy of this week’s Juice in your local central Iowa coffee shop or restaurant, make sure to flip to page 33 to see our latest partnership in ink, literally. We’re excited to announce that from this issue forward, we’ll be providing a profile of one area entrepreneur to the…
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Annual Report: Culture of Risk Taking
Over the next several weeks, we’ll expand on each of the items that are to be included in the inaugural “Silicon Prairie Annual Report,” which we’ve described as a “look back at the previous year in the Silicon Prairie region, taking into account such metrics as company formations, product releases and developments, investment and M&A…
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PrairieCast: Brad Dwyer of the Facebook app company Hatchlings
Our guest on PrairieCast this week was Brad Dwyer, the founder of Hatchlings, an online social game built utilizing the Facebook platform. Brad, a senior at Iowa State University majoring in computer science, is making a lot of waves in Central Iowa’s entrepreneur community. Most recently, he took home the award for the Student Innovation…
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Hatchlings founder talks about the success of his Facebook app company
When you put together a list of the fastest growing technology companies in Iowa, you probably don’t include Hatchlings, Inc., but you should. I recently had the chance to sit down with Brad Dwyer the company’s founder, who is also a senior in Computer Science and Entrepreneurial Studies at Iowa State University, to learn about…