February 18, 2011

  • Weekly Wrap Up #76 – Thanks for counting, Robert Murphy!

    Mentioned this week: – Big thanks to Robert Murphy, @ramhatter on Twitter, for figuring out that we’re on episode #76 – Happy Birthday Dusty! – “Who’s going to SXSW? (Let us know in the comments!)” – “Big Omaha 2011 site launches!” – Credit to Malone & Company for the “Big Omaha” video and Tres Johnson…

  • Herb Sih is spurring Kansas City entrepreneurs to ‘Think Big’

    As the managing partner of Think Big Partners, Think Big Kansas City and bizperc, Herb Sih has been busy over the last three years (Left, photo from thinkbigpartners.com). Most recently, Think Big announced a collaboration with Angel Capital Group, a Tennessee-based investment group, to launch 4-6 companies in an incubator right here in Kansas City.…

  • BIZ Luncheon Series: Justin Schoen of eComegy presents on SEO

    Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds an educational luncheon for entrepreneurs across Central Iowa. Called the “Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series,” each luncheon features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high growth and…

  • Dwolla still down – Milne blogs it’ll be back up tonight

    Anyone else try to utlize Dwolla during the workday yesterday? We did, and it was down. And today, it’s still down. Last night I shot Dwolla CEO Ben Milne a text to learn the latest and he promptly replied it was a server issue and that they were working through it. Just a few moments…

  • TED Conference to stream live in Des Moines – Wed., March 2nd

    (Photo by Eric Charlton via Flickr.) TEDxDesMoines organizer Alexander Grgurich has teamed up with the Greater Des Moines Partnership to put on a livestream of the upcoming 2011 TED Conference in Long Beach, California on Wednesday March 2nd. TEDxDesMoines, first held last May, is a local version of the famed TED conference, produced under license,…