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Des Moines duo exceeds Kickstarter goal to fund weekly podcast
Former Silicon Prairie News COO Geoff Wood and Christopher New, owner of Event1 Video, are teaming up to bring a weekly startup-centric podcast back to the Iowa tech community. Within hours of launching a Kickstarter campaign to help support the cost of the podcast last Friday, the project was fully funded and has continued to…
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KCnext elects SPN’s Regan Carrizales, two others to board of directors
Regional tech council KCnext on Tuesday announced the addition of three members to its board of directors, including Silicon Prairie News community builder Regan Carrizales. Kevin McGinnis, senior vice president of product platforms at Sprint, and Kyle Mallot, vice president at DST Systems, also joined the board, which includes Greg Kratofil, a Polsinelli attorney who’s…
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ISU students take home cash prizes from Innovation Pitch Competition
Students took home $1,400 in prizes at the second annual Innovation Pitch Competition April 9 at the Delta Upsilon Fraternity on the Iowa State University campus. Hosted by the Entrepreneurship and Innovation Learning Community, the event provided thirty-one students, ranging from freshmen to graduate students, an opportunity to practice their entrepreneurial pitch skills. Silicon Prairie…
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PrairieCast video: A retrospective on the podcast series
It’s not every week that you get the chance to have Ashton Kutcher on your podcast. Not to be overshadowed by the big interview, after its conclusion we recorded the final episode of PrairieCast (queued up in the video above) where Danny Schreiber, Andy Brudtkuhl and I look back on everything that was PrairieCast. A…
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Watch live: PrairieCast at 1 p.m. with Ben Milne and Danny Schreiber
Join us at 1 p.m. (special time!) for Episode 80 of PrairieCast, the final episode of our weekly webcast that we launched in February 2010. Our guests will be Ben Milne (far left) of Dwolla – he was our first PrairieCast guest – and Danny Schreiber (near left) who leads our newsroom team. In addition…
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PrairieCast: Live at 1 p.m. Tuesday with Ben Milne and Danny Schreiber
Join us tomorrow at 1 p.m. (special time!) for Episode 80 of PrairieCast – the final episode of our weekly webcast series that we launched in February 2010. Our guests will be Ben Milne (far left) of Dwolla – he was our first PrairieCast guest – and Danny Schreiber (near left) who leads our newsroom…
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PrairieCast video: WebFilings, i2iowa & last episode announcement
Our guest this week was Drew Larson, attorney at BrownWinick, who joined in for a discussion of Ames-based WebFilings, next week’s i2iowa event, tomorrow’s Startup Job Crawl and the Big Omaha 2012 speaker lineup. We also announced that our next episode on Tuesday, April 10 would be our last regularly …
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Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Drew Larson
Tune in at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 79 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We’ll be joined by guest Drew Larson (left), an attorney at BrownWinick, to talk about the latest events and news from the regional startup community. PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, for which a group of entrepreneurs gather…
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PrairieCast is off this week, but you can still catch last week’s show
We’ll be taking this week off from PrairieCast because our producer is on a call to do his civic duty as a Polk County juror. But below you can find last week’s show with John Jackovin of BettrLife and Bawte and Sam Schill of Shoplr and Sigler Companies. PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly,…
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PrairieCast Video: SXSW and the Startup Act
This week on PrairieCast, Sam Schill of Shoplr and Sigler Companies and John Jackovin of BettrLife and Bawte joined us to look back at South by Southwest Interactive and to discuss the Startup Act. This week’s Fast Four covered DoodleCloud’s Kickstarter campaign, Dundee VC’s investment in David Cohen’s new fund, AgLocal’s challenge to live up…