April 22, 2011

  • BuyerCompass, Syncbak and Thinix awarded demonstration fund grants

    The Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) announced that latest companies to win awards from the Demonstration Fund this week. The Demonstration Fund, which is described on the IDED website as “designed to encourage product refinements …

  • Weekly Wrap-Up with Dusty and Michael

    We went green — or the color scheme of our Livestream did, at least — today for what I’ve just decided to label as our Weekly Wrap-Up: Earth Day Edition. Truth be told, that green scheme is about as earthy as the Weekly Wrap-Up got, but there are plenty of other reasons to check it…

  • ‘Express Your Pledge’ and be entered for a chance at a Big Omaha ticket

    We’re thrilled to share with you a phenomenal opportunity from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our premier sponsor of Big Omaha 2011. With tickets for Big Omaha selling out just one week after they went on sale, the Kauffman Foundation has offered to give one lucky entrepreneur the opportunity to attend our event. Here are…

  • Swappa tries to take bite out of big boys in used Android device sales

    Ben Edwards is trying to take a bite out of eBay, one mobile device at a time. Edwards (Left, photo from twitter.com/bennybeta) is the creator and proprietor of Swappa …

  • 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,…