SPN Out & About: Startup Storm at Simpson College on Saturday
Our team at Silicon Prairie News is often invited to speak at community events and entrepreneurial conferences about either our organization or the geographic and industry areas we cover. We’re starting a new series “SPN Out & About” to document those experiences, and next up is Startup Storm, a student entrepreneurship conference taking place …
Our team at Silicon Prairie News is often invited to speak at community events and entrepreneurial conferences about either our organization or the geographic and industry areas we cover. We’re starting a new series “SPN Out & About” to document those experiences, and next up is Startup Storm, a student entrepreneurship conference taking place Saturday at Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa.
“Startup Storm is an event focused on teaching and supporting innovation and entrepreneurial development. This one day conference will feature a variety of speakers and breakout sessions regarding idea discovery, implementation and growth of startup businesses.”
I’ll be presenting on the six tenets of an entrepreneurial ecosystem and sharing what I’ve observed in the past year of covering the startup community locally in Des Moines in a presentation I’m calling “Iowa? lols: Des Moines as an Evolving Center of Innovation.”
Startup Storm is Koch’s idea, and she told me on PrairieCast yesterday that it’s not part of a class project or the work of any campus organization. Rather, it’s just something she and her friends wanted to work on in order to expose people on the relatively small campus of about 1,500 students to entrepreneurial culture and the potential for a future in a startup.
She’s expecting about 75 attendees on Saturday. Most will be Simpson students, but the event is open to the public and there is no charge to attend. Register online at startup-storm.com/register.
This story is part of the AIM Archive
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Macy Koch (Pictured at left. Photo from Twitter), a Simpson student and the organizer of the event, invited me to speak on behalf of SPN. I’m excited to join a lineup that includes some familiar faces in our community, Ben Milne of Dwolla, Christian Renaud from Startup City Des Moines and The Athena Project and Nathan Wright of Lava Row, as well as Donni Alley, the president and creative director of Alley Design Solutions and someone I haven’t had the chance to meet yet.
