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Thinc Iowa: Scott Case – ‘Build a network of support’
Wearing his red, white, and blue Converse sneakers, Scott Case, took the stage Friday afternoon at the Temple for Performing Arts in Des Moines to illustrate the intersection between corporations and startups. Case started by explaining the mission and purpose of the Startup America Partnership. As Case explained, Startup America Partnership strives to offer five…
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Thinc Iowa: Paige Craig – ‘Pitch the massive, disruptive thing’
As the morning moved along at the inaugural Thinc Iowa conference today at the Temple for Performing Arts in Des Moines, attendees began to think about lunch, but Paige Craig showed up to shake things up. Craig is the CEO and co-founder of BetterWorks, a company committed to finding a better way to manage employee…
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Blend Interactive shifts focus of Web 2.0 map from ‘Control’ to ‘Data’
It’s always exciting to feature our Silicon Prairie companies doing excellent work in the national spotlight. It’s also no secret that when you do fantastic work, you’ll get invited back for more. This was exactly the case with Sioux Falls interactive agency Blend Interactive and its involvement with John Battelle and the Web 2.0 Summit.…
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Tools for the Trade: Postagram provides personalized postcards
In an era owned by smartphones, tablets and free Wi-Fi, the days of snail mail are becoming a distant memory. But since everyone loves a bit of nostalgia, Sincerely, a company dedicated to merging the old sentimentality of mail with new, ever-changing technology, created Postagram. Postagram is an app available for iPhone and Android devices…
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Innovation Expo to highlight and help Prairie entrepreneurs
In less than a month, Sioux Falls will be the gathering spot for the eighth annual Innovation Expo, taking place Wednesday, Nov. 2 at the Ramkota Hotel and Conference Center. The Expo, which is hosted by Enterprise Institute, a non-profit that provides business development and services to individuals and startup companies, brings together inventors, researchers…
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Tools of the Trade: Viddy provides simple tool to share mobile video
With the proliferation of smart phones in people’s hands today, mobile applications have brought new ways to share our everyday lives. Whether through picture or video, a couple swipes of the finger can publish high-quality content to our social networks and online connections. Instagram, a photo-sharing app on the iOS platform, just passed 10 million…
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Tools of the Trade: Loosecubes makes it easy to find coworking near you
If you haven’t heard already, the coworking phenomenon is spreading across the country. Right here on Silicon Prairie News we’ve covered CAMP in Omaha, The Foundry in Des Moines, Meso in Sioux Falls and most recently Vault Coworking in Cedar Rapids. It seems if you’re an entrepreneur, why would you work anywhere else? But what…
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9 Clouds hoping for Potter-esque magic with Lemonly infographics
Infographics are all the rage, and in the coming months, the team at 9 Clouds hopes to capitalize on their popularity with the infographics company, Lemonly. Defined by Wikipedia as a “graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge,” they’ve been popping up everywhere lately: news headlines, daily blogs, company blogs, blog categories and business…
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Tools for the Trade: Win the day with The Email Game
Feeling buried by email? Scared to wake up in the morning and see how much that unread email number has grown? Dreaming of the day you can reach INBOX ZERO? …