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Kaylee Williams shares SXSW experiences through Register series
Last week when entrepreneurs from around the world flocked to Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, the Silicon Prairie was well represented. While there were Iowa and Kansas City parties, a bevy of startup pitches and countless business cards exchanged, a handful of entrepreneurs also have taken the time to reflect on the festival. To…
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Iowa Googler works to convince world Glass is “a good thing”
Slater, Iowa native and Iowa State University alum Steve Lee recently spoke with The Des Moines Register about his decision three years ago to join the Google Glass team. “It seemed a bit crazy at the time,” Lee, the director of Google Glass, told The Des Moines Register. “But I saw a vision that this…
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Register examines “growing pains in Ames” in startup community series
The Des Moines Register in February rolled out a new series focusing on startup communities around Iowa. The series, titled “Starting up Iowa,” kicked off with a story package looking at the “Cedar Valley,” the area …
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Register rolls out new series on Iowa’s startup communities
The Des Moines Register on Sunday published six stories to kick off its new “Starting Up Iowa” series that focuses on startup communities throughout the state of Iowa. The first package of stories took a close look at a northeast Iowa startup community defined by Waterloo and Cedar Falls. “The Cedar Valley has some key…
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Watch the Iowa Internet Uncaucus live tonight until 9
reddit’s Internet 2012 Bus Tour, an effort to promote the Open Internet with a campaign-style road trip through the heart of the country, continues its surge across the Silicon Prairie tonight with a stop in Des Moines for the inaugural Iowa Internet Uncaucus. Tonight’s event, billed as “a caucus just for us” featuring “bipartisan ideas,…
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U.S. CIO VanRoekel talks startups, savings, new tech in Iowa visit
Steven VanRoekel, the United States’ new Chief Information Officer, made the rounds at his old stomping grounds on Monday. VanRoekel, who grew up in Cherokee, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University, returned to his alma mater to give a talk and also visited StartupCity Des Moines, a downtown technology startup incubator, during a visit…
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High school freshman launches full-screen web browsing app
We have a second “studentpreneur” story to share in the span of a couple of weeks. On Thursday, the Des Moines Register wrote about Jake Taylor, a 15-year-old who took a mobile app from prototype to profit as part of a class project. Taylor, a freshman in Earlham, a town of about 1,300 that is…
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PrairieCast Video: Pipeline Innovator of the Year, the Gigabit Challenge
This week on PrairieCast, we’re joined by Marco Santana, The Des Moines Register’s new technology and startup reporter, as well as our own Michael Stacy. We talked through all the news and notes from Pipeline’s Innovator of the Year festivities and looked back on the Gigabit Challenge to discuss what it means to the region.…
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Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Marco Santana and Michael Stacy
Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 72 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We’ll be joined by Marco Santana, the new Des Moines Register startup and technology reporter, and our own Michael Stacy. We’ll be talking about the Pipeline Innovator of the Year …
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Meet Marco Santana, the Register’s new tech and startup reporter
Marco Santana, the Des Moines Register’s new technology and startup reporter, is comfortable to admit he was “the journalism nerd” in college. Or as he put it: “The guy who wore his ‘journalist’ T-shirt to the bar and did not think twice about it.” “Now, after a few years in the field,” Santana said in…