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PhoneBank, Staff Ninja to leave StartupCity Des Moines
Officials at StartupCity Des Moines today announced via its blog that two of its resident companies—PhoneBank.org and Staff Ninja—will be leaving the incubator. After just more than six months as a StartupCity Des Moines resident, PhoneBank will be …
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Q&A: BitRouter founder reflects on Iowa, recessions and big lessons
Gopal Miglani, the founder and president of BitRouter, spoke Monday for a lunch and learn at StartupCity Des Moines. He started his first company in 1997 and today heads up BitRouter, a provider of software for digital TV platforms that has its headquarters in San Diego and its engineering office in West Des Moines. “At…
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Officials from Kosovo hope to learn from Iowa startup culture
In Iowa, a pool table is a trendy office accessory. An ambassador from Kosovo, on the other hand, prefers table tennis. At least, that’s what Akan Ismaili, the Republic of Kosovo’s ambassador to the United States, said about his own experience starting a company as he looked around the facilities at StartupCity Des Moines Thursday…
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U.S. CIO VanRoekel talks startups, savings, new tech in Iowa visit
Steven VanRoekel, the United States’ new Chief Information Officer, made the rounds at his old stomping grounds on Monday. VanRoekel, who grew up in Cherokee, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University, returned to his alma mater to give a talk and also visited StartupCity Des Moines, a downtown technology startup incubator, during a visit…
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Renaud kicks off Summit with focus on Silicon Prairie ecosystem (Video)
As a follow up to our recap post in February, the full video (above) of Christian Renaud’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship opening keynote is now available. Renaud, a co-founder of the technology startup incubator StartupCity Des Moines, focused his presentation on the idea of the Silicon Prairie ecosystem and the advantages of being pragmatic Midwestern…
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Events: Pitch Competition, Coders 4 Charities and more
Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. …
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‘Go build it,’ Renaud tells Summit crowd in ecosystem-focused address
Christian Renaud, co-founder of the technology startup incubator StartupCity Des Moines, kicked off the Nebraska Entrepreneurship Summit Friday as the morning keynote speaker. Renaud focused on the idea of the Silicon Prairie ecosystem, telling attendees, “You not only own your own future, your own entrepreneurial endeavors, but as part of this ecosystem, part of the…
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PrairieCast Video: Startup Weekend and the Startup Visa Legislation
On this week’s episode, Tej Dhawan of Startup City Des Moines and Andrew Kirpalani of Ensighten joined me to discuss the upcoming Startup Weekend in Des Moines and the Startup Visa legislation currently in Congress and Iowa Senator Grassley’s role in the process. This week on the Fast Four it was @DHH gone racing, the…
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PrairieCast with Tej Dhawan and Emma Peterson (Video)
Tej Dhawan of Startup City Des Moines and Emma Peterson of Tikly were our guests today on PrairieCast where we talked about Shannon Thomas and Kenny Younger’s Startup Weekend Love Story, RecBob’s Startup Weekend “launch” in Cedar Rapids and Dusty Reynolds’ question, “can entrepreneurship be taught?” We also looked back at the …
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PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright, Tej Dhawan and Danny Schreiber (Video)
We had a full house this week on PrairieCast with Lava Row’s Nathan T. Wright and Startup City Des Moines’ Tej Dhawan in studio and our own Danny Schreiber on Skype. We took a look back at both the top posts of 2011 as well as the most popular ones and gave our predictions on…