Jordan Lampe

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 with Scott Case, Jordan Lampe & Emma Peterson

    There’s been a late addition to today’s show! Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and one of our Thinc Iowa speakers, will join us live at 2 p.m as a bonus guest! Case is in town as part of the StartupIowa launch today. Previously announced …

  • Prairie Moves: Sam DuRegger, Nannagram, QuickCal 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…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. Tue. with Jordan Lampe and Emma Peterson

    Join us at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Episode 66 of PrairieCast. Tikly’s Emma Peterson is back for a second week and Dwolla’s Jordan Lampe returns just two days ahead of Dwolla’s big Thursday night meetup/announcement. Did you miss last week’s show? Then you missed our new show stinger and graphics. They are impressive – see…

  • Dwolla axes fees on transactions less than $10, says more details to come

    On the one-year anniversary of Dwolla’s national launch, the Des Moines-based payment platform is celebrating with a gift for businesses that accept Dwolla for small transactions. Dwolla CEO Ben Milne announced today in a blog post that all transactions of less than $10 on Dwolla are now free. Previously, Dwolla charged a flat fee …

  • PrairieCast with Sam DuRegger and Jordan Lampe (Video)

    Three firsts in this week’s episode: Sam DuRegger of Charming Beard Productions joined us as a guest, we celebrated a guest’s birthday on the show and the same guest made a quick exit moments later (due to what turned out to be some first-time pregnancy jitters — it happens to the best of us). It…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Jordan Lampe and Sam DuRegger

    Today at 2 p.m. we’ll broadcast Episode 61 of PrairieCast live from our office at the south end of Des Moines’ Silicon Sixth Avenue. True to our promise last week of having a more regular group of guests, Jordan Lampe of Dwolla will join us for a second week in a row. Sam DuRegger of…

  • PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright and Jordan Lampe (Video)

    After two weeks off for Thinc Iowa (me) and a new baby (Andy), we’re back with episode 60 of your favorite weekly podcast: PrairieCast! During those two weeks of “down time,” we came up with some new ideas for the show and we’ll be rolling them out over the next several episodes. First and foremost,…

  • Dwolla unveils Proxi: Photos and video from the meetup

    Wednesday’s Dwolla meetup brought out a cross section of the business and technology community from throughout Des Moines. The Dwolla team estimated more than 350 people passed through doors, first for a social at Americana, then next door at Zart. Dwolla founder Ben Milne was the event’s headliner, announcing his company’s new product …

  • Proxi puts power of proximity-based payment at Dwolla users’ fingertips

    Dwolla today announced a private beta of a new iOS platform, called Proxi. The new technology from the Des Moines-based startup will allow users to convert their Dwolla-enabled devices (iOS for now, with Android and Windows Phone soon to follow) into movable Spots, seamlessly making and taking payments without additional hardware like NFC or dongles,…

  • It’s social. It’s music. It’s Turntable, and it’s taking startups by storm.

    The Silicon Prairie, it appears, has more wannabe DJs than a Full House casting call. And recently, an abundance of those aspiring emcees have found an outlet for their spinning skills on Turntable.fm, the Next Big Thing du jour in social music sites. Turntable users, represented by avatars that resemble what Precious Moments cartoons might…