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  • Hudl’s John Wirtz: ‘We don’t … do anything unless we can be the best’

    On the eve of kicking off the football season that will be his company’s biggest yet, Hudl COO John Wirtz presented at Cornstalks on Thursday night, sharing some pages from a playbook that’s helped Hudl build its field’s top-ranked team over the last five years. Hudl, based in Lincoln, makes web-based analysis and coaching tools…

  • Weekly Wrap-Up: Jeff has the weather on his mind. Again.

    Jeff and Brittany took the reins and talked about the rains — and Hurricane Irene, and a bevy of other weather-related subjects — today on the 102nd episode of the Weekly Wrap-Up. Jeff, who shall henceforth be known as our chief meteorologist/community builder was, as always, abuzz about the latest in atmospheric activity and gave…

  • Quick Pitch: Introvio looks to clean up contact cultivation

    Networking, if you ask Mike Templeton, is a dirty word. “For me it generally means standing in a room full of crowded people, blindly introducing myself and my line of work to utter strangers,” Templeton, the founder of Introvio, said of networking in a recent blog post. “There are no warnings about people you should…

  • Vault open to Wednesday coworking, set for full-scale launch in November

    Downtown Cedar Rapids is getting an office space like it has never seen before. Vault, a coworking and collaboration space located on the fifth floor of the historic Guranty Bank Building (302 3rd Ave SE), is offering free community workspace every Wednesday in August for area entrepreneurs and creatives with plans for a full business…

  • Pipeline opens application process for 2012 entrepreneurial fellowship

    Pipeline announced this week that applications are now available for the first regional class of its entrepreneurial fellowship. As we reported in April, Pipeline, a five-year-old, Kansas-based program for innovative, high-growth entrepreneurs, is expanding its focus from Kansas to the Midwest a result of …

  • Q&A: Josh Cramer on selling one company to take another next-level

    After years of nurturing two companies and overseeing both as they grew side by side, Josh Cramer decided it was best for both of his babies to bid adieu to one. Cramer, 35, the founder of Iowa City-based shops Cramer Dev and Cramer IT, recently sold Cramer IT to focus on Cramer Dev, a decision…

  • Proxi puts power of proximity-based payment at Dwolla users’ fingertips

    Dwolla today announced a private beta of a new iOS platform, called Proxi. The new technology from the Des Moines-based startup will allow users to convert their Dwolla-enabled devices (iOS for now, with Android and Windows Phone soon to follow) into movable Spots, seamlessly making and taking payments without additional hardware like NFC or dongles,…

  • Live-streaming: Dwolla meetup at 6 p.m.

    Not able to make it out to tonight’s Dwolla meetup at Americana (1312 Locust St. in Des Moines)? Not to worry; we’ll have it here. Tune in starting at 6 p.m. for the meetup, which will feature the unveiling of Dwolla’s latest innovation, Proxi (we’ll have more on that on Silicon Prairie News in just…

  • Milne, Seguin & Slobotski sound off on small-market growth companies

    For regular readers of Silicon Prairie News, none of what’s discussed in the Aug. 19 Fox Business article “How to Become a Growth Company in a Small Market” is necessarily …

  • Hudl’s John Wirtz to speak Thursday at Tom Chapman’s last Cornstalks

    As football teams across the country gear up for their seasons to start in the coming weeks, a man whose company is central to what so many of those teams hope to accomplish will update us on his own team’s outlook for the upcoming season. John Wirtz, the co-founder and COO of Hudl, will speak…