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Prairie Moves: Danny Lockard, Grain & Mortar, VoterTide and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email [email protected]. And if…
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How Techmeme could fuel growth of regional tech blogs (like this one)
On Thursday, our story on Dwolla’s new feature, “Instant,” yielded our highest traffic day ever, an important accomplishment to cap off a major year of growth for Silicon Prairie News. By itself, the traffic was cause for celebration, but more important to our team was how the traffic came about. It was the result …
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Tim Siedell, a.k.a. @BadBanana, tops Paste’s ‘100 Best Twitter Accounts’
Who’s better on Twitter than Stephen Colbert, Steve Martin, Sarah Silverman and a man who calls himself “Drunk Hulk”? Nebraska’s own Tim Siedell, of course, at least that’s the opinion of Paste Magazine who today released its “100 Best Twitter Accounts of 2011” and ranked the man behind the @BadBanana …
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Forbes names Dwolla’s Milne to ’30 Under 30′ list for finance
Forbes revealed its annual “30 Under 30” feature today, naming Ben Milne, the co-founder and CEO of Des Moines-based Dwolla, to its list for the finance field. In all, 360 “disrupters” across 12 fields, such as media, technology and art, were given recognition for their efforts to “(make) a difference right …
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Dwolla Meetup wrap-up: ‘Instant’ photos, videos and articles abound
On Thursday, Dwolla, a payments startup based in Des Moines, closed out one of its most eventful days yet with a meetup to show off its new product feature and bring together its users, supporters and members of the city’s tech community. According the Des Moines Register, more than 250 people came out for the…
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Sunday Video: How European governments support startup ecosystems
On heels of Tuesday’s StartupIowa launch and our post highlighting Steve Kiene’s TEDxLincoln talk on the ingredients of a software ecosystem, this recently released video from LeWeb, “Panel: How European governments support startup ecosystems,” caught my attention. Moderated by Sherry Coutu, an accomplished entrepreneur and angel investor …
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Prairie Moves: Riane Menardi, Ellen Wilde and Goodsmiths
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (two days late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Watch Ben Milne introduce Instant: Dwolla Meetup live-stream at 6:30
If you can’t make it to Dwolla’s meetup and formal introduction of “Instant” tonight at Vaudeville Mews (212 4th Street) in Des Moines, be sure to join us here to watch it all streamed live. The livestream will begin at 6:30 p.m., when Dwolla’s director of communications, Jordan Lampe, takes the stage. He’ll be followed…
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Dwolla unveils ‘Instant,’ immediate access up to $500 for flat monthly fee
Dwolla, the online cash transfer startup based in Des Moines, today introduced a feature to give its users instant access to cash, an alternative to its current two- to three-day waiting period for users to transfer funds into their accounts. Dwolla’s CEO, Ben Milne, founded the company in 2008 on the premise of a flat…
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It’s Dwolla’s day on Thursday. What’s next for the hot startup?
If you’re a regular reader of SPN and you’re in Dwolla Moines … er, Des Moines, on Thursday, it’s very likely you’ll be headed to the Dwolla Meetup. Dwolla Meetups have traditionally served as platforms for the startup’s major releases, and this one is promised not to disappoint. “On December 15th,” Milne titled a Nov.…