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Ten reasons to attend OpenIowa, a public data competition
Ready for a challenge? StartupIowa is daring developers, designers and data junkies to turn public data sets into something useful at its first OpenIowa event. The code-a-thon is similar to other open-data events sprouting up around the country, like the recent Hack Omaha. Similar to Startup Weekend, OpenIowa challenges attendees to launch a product in…
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Renaud kicks off Summit with focus on Silicon Prairie ecosystem (Video)
As a follow up to our recap post in February, the full video (above) of Christian Renaud’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship opening keynote is now available. Renaud, a co-founder of the technology startup incubator StartupCity Des Moines, focused his presentation on the idea of the Silicon Prairie ecosystem and the advantages of being pragmatic Midwestern…
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‘Go build it,’ Renaud tells Summit crowd in ecosystem-focused address
Christian Renaud, co-founder of the technology startup incubator StartupCity Des Moines, kicked off the Nebraska Entrepreneurship Summit Friday as the morning keynote speaker. Renaud focused on the idea of the Silicon Prairie ecosystem, telling attendees, “You not only own your own future, your own entrepreneurial endeavors, but as part of this ecosystem, part of the…
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Here’s to the world-changers. The unreasonable ones. The visionaries.
Our most recent Sunday Video Series post came out a bit late and you might have missed it. It’s a three-minute video featuring Steve Blank, a noted entrepreneur, author and professor, in which he’s asked, “What’s a startup?” He answers the question by giving the differences between a startup and a small business. Blank notes…
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Startup Fair draws 100 exhibitors, more than 400 visitors across Iowa
Given the record temperatures on the last day of January, Tuesday evening’s Iowa Startup Fair could probably have been held outdoors at the state fairgrounds. But since meteorologists’ predictive powers are still far short of Nostradamus, the crowd at StartupCity Des Moines, Amici and other area locations would have to just crack some windows to…
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MSN’s Business on Main spotlights StartupCity Des Moines (Video)
StartupCity Des Moines, a tech startup incubator which opened its doors in October, is the focus of a short video on MSN’s Business on Main, which is billed as an “entrepreneur’s source for news and commentary on today’s pressing small-business issues” “A tech incubator is born in an unlikely place,” MSN’s Chris Cashman says to…
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Prairie Moves: Michael Collins, Goodsmiths, 34ideas 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…