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With school back in session, Vookbag is out to connect classrooms
Jeffrey Short, a recent University of Northern Iowa graduate and the founder of Vookbag, is hoping students add his software to their back-to-school checklists. About a dozen professors at UNI, Iowa State, Drake University and a couple of community colleges will begin using the web-based program with …
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Business Record finds increased interest in entrepreneurial education
I love that our friends in the larger publications in Des Moines are writing more and more about the startup community in the area (did you see Juice just highlighted “The Startup Scene” as part of their “Hot in Des Moines” issue?), and I was especially excited to see that the Business Record ran a…
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Book Hatchery born out of UNI student’s ebook bind
I remember from “The Republic” that Plato once said “Necessity is the Mother of invention”. Sure, I didn’t really read it, but my 10th grade English teacher still thinks so. Those words are a perfect description of how the Book Hatchery was started. Its founder, Nick Cash, was looking for a way to publish his…
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Up against giant Amazon, Clickstop expands brands to fuel growth
Clickstop founders Tim Guenther and Shaun Linderbaum were a couple of typical Iowa college kids back in the late 90s, at a time when Wade Arnold of T8 was also bumming around the hallowed entrepreneurial grounds of the University of Northern Iowa. Incidentally, yours truly was also a “typical college kid” at that time. Sadly,…
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MyEntre.Net, an online hub for Iowa entrepreneurs of all kinds
My first official post here at Silicon Prairie News is on an organization that I’m closely tied with, MyEntre.Net, a division of my employer, the Incubation Services at the University of Northern Iowa. Truth be told, my editor actually requested that MyEntre.Net be my first topic. MyEntre.Net has come to be the face and a…
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Must Read Post from CS Professor: ‘I just need a programmer.’
(Left: Me fiddling around on the internet and not learning how to program. Photo by Tony Noecker.) Since gaining a serious interest in the tech industry just over four years ago and having lamely remained just an “ideas guy” since, my appreciation for those who either know how to code or pick it up as…
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Two days left to vote UNI student ‘College Entrepreneur of 2010’
Voting for Entrepreneur Magazine’s College Entrepreneur of 2010 comes to a close at the end of the day this Friday, September 10. One of the five finalists vying for the title is Nick Cash, a junior at the University of Northern Iowa (UNI). Cash was selected for his work on Book Hatchery, a publishing platform…
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UNI student is finalist for ‘College Entrepreneur of 2010’
University of Northern Iowa (UNI) student Nick Cash is a finalist for Entrepreneur Magazine’s College Entrepreneur of 2010. Nick is being recognized for his startup, Book Hatchery, a publishing platform for ebooks. The contest is open to all to vote until September 10. You can view Nick’s entry video and vote for him at entrepreneur.com.…
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MyEntre.Net giving away $1,000 each month to an entrepreneur
MyEntre.Net, a web-based support system for entrepreneurs provided by the University of Northern Iowa’s Business and Community Services division, recently launched the Dream Big Grow Here grant program to spur new…