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Kum & Go connects with Bawte for summer promotion
Bawte, a social media application for sharing purchases, is getting some major marketing fuel this summer through a promotion run by Kum & Go, the nation’s fifth largest privately held, company-operated convenience store chain. Through the end of August, the West Des Moines-based chain is giving away a gift card weekly to someone who shares…
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Quick Pitch: Introvio looks to clean up contact cultivation
Networking, if you ask Mike Templeton, is a dirty word. “For me it generally means standing in a room full of crowded people, blindly introducing myself and my line of work to utter strangers,” Templeton, the founder of Introvio, said of networking in a recent blog post. “There are no warnings about people you should…
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Introducing … introduction platform Introvio
Getting cold feet about making that cold call? Introvio hopes to help reduce those chills by cultivating a warm contact. Formally introduced to the world yesterday in a blog post by creator Mike Templeton, Introvio is a platform that leverages the network effect …
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PrairieCast with Hillary Brown & Mike Templeton (Video)
Earlier today, PrairieCast co-hosts Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News and Andy Brudtkuhl of 48web were joined by guests Hillary Brown of OnPitch and Lava Row and Mike Templeton of ScoreYard and Kum & Go. Discussed this week: “In case you missed it… the Dwolla Spots announcement,” “Startup Weekend Des Moines: The winner is ‘Unleash…
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PrairieCast: 1:30 pm Tuesday with Hillary Brown and Mike Templeton
Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, March 8th at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 28 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Hillary Brown of OnPitch and Lava Row and Mike Templeton of ScoreYard and Kum & Go. Discussion topics will include the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) festival, Startup…
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Prairie Moves: RockDex, Smelly Puppy, Uppward & more
(Photo by Mark Michaelis via Flickr) 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,…
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ScoreYard adds player registration feature – focus turns to revenue
This past July, three full-timers launched a side project called ScoreYard, a social team management platform. Today, the team…
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ScoreYard launches social platform for sports teams
Earlier today, Mike Templeton, co-founder and community manager for Des Moines-based ScoreYard, announced (above) that the company’s social platform designed for sports teams is now open in limited release. Mike gave us a few minutes of his time this morning to tell us about the company…
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Prairie Moves: Advent IP adds two, Smelly Puppy releases app & more
(Photo by Let Ideas Compete via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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…
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Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event
Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy’s producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she’s given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie…