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Inc. Magazine lists Dwolla, Bulu Box, HLT and more as startups to watch
In a recently published list, Inc. Magazine named a number of well-known startups as the “8 Silicon Prairie Startups Worth Watching.” Des Moines’ Dwolla, Lincoln-based Bulu Box and Kansas City’s AgLocal all made the list…
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9th & Elm’s curated site of designers does the work for shoppers
Sites like Etsy have become increasingly successful in recent years. Hundreds of thousands of designers now have a platform to sell their work on such sites …
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Dwolla Credit launches beta with financial partner Alliance Data
Earlier this month Dwolla announced the launch of a private beta for its real-time payment system. Today the Des Moines startup opened its new platform, Dwolla Credit, to public beta with Alliance Data Retail Services and subsidiary Comenity Capital Bank as its financial partner. “Essentially, if you think about what we’ve done integrating the way…
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Dwolla launches private beta for its real-time payment system
Des Moines-based startup Dwolla announced Monday that after three months of work, the online payment company will launch real-time payments in private beta. While the blog post announcing the launch offered few details, Dwolla CEO and founder Ben Milne did note…
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Ben Milne appears as featured guest on This Week in Startups
On Tuesday Dwolla’s founder and CEO Ben Milne appeared as a guest on the bi-weekly podcast This Week in Startups. Milne discussed everything from getting angry about credit card fees and splitting time among the startup’s offices …
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Dwolla founder recognized on list of MIT’s “35 Innovators Under 35”
This morning the MIT Technology Review revealed its prestigious annual list of “35 Innovators Under 35.” This year, that group included Dwolla founder and CEO Ben Milne. Milne, who was honored as an outstanding entrepreneur, will be featured online and in print. The Des Moines-based startup’s founder also will appear on the cover of the…
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Dwolla staff builds variety of apps at company’s first internal hackathon
Companies such as Facebook to LinkedIn have hosted internal company-wide hackathons to help spur creativity and break employees out of their daily routines. Now Des Moines-based startup Dwolla is joining the list with its first internal hackathon, held last Thursday and Friday. “Some of these (hacks) are things we really want to do and it’s…
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ISU student builds Chrome extension to tip Medium writers via Dwolla
Iowa State University student Brett Neese last week wrote a post for story-sharing platform Medium, unveiling …
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Dwolla back in Bitcoin news as feds seize account of Mt. Gox exchange
After a bundle of press earlier this month covering its latest round of funding, Dwolla on Tuesday landed back in the headlines for its involvement in the Bitcoin ecosystem. The Des Moines-based payments network is used by exchanges of the virtual currency to let customers deposit and withdraw money. This latest episode revolves around a…
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Ben Milne tells Big Omaha crowd not to “be worried about what is normal”
According to Ben Milne, one of the biggest mistakes a founder can make is to abandon the Silicon Prairie and its Midwestern roots. And he should know. Without the community surrounding his Des Moines-based company, Milne said Dwolla probably wouldn’t be thriving today. “Had we not stayed here, we would not have made the friendships…