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From pitch to proposal: Iowa couple finds love at Startup Weekend
Shannon Thomas’ pitch last March on the final night of Startup Weekend Des Moines wasn’t quite enough to win over the judges — her startup, Fundle, earned best pitch didn’t finish among the top three overall* — but it helped her catch the attention of the one person in the room who turned out to…
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Prairie Moves: Fundle, Kickanotch, Gigabit Challenge 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 …
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Why this student’s startup experience trumps internships
Many computer science and software engineering majors start looking for internships during their sophomore and junior years. They go to career fairs, usually dressed in a suit and tie, or whatever the female equivalent is, shake hands with and smile at people from large companies and talk about how their coursework is somewhat related to…
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Prairie Moves: Bryan McCarty, Canvis, God at Play and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursday, 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…
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Prairie Moves: Bryan Roth, Kaylin Brabec, Electric Pulp and more
Published every Tuesday, 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 you…
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Startup Weekend’s Fundle presses on
Earlier this week, I saw a tweet that Fundle, a startup building an app to split payments amongst friends for things like hotel rooms or wedding gifts, had applied to PayPal for access to their production API in order to “work w/ real money.” Interested to see how they had moved forward since their idea…