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Polls open in Iowa … for Dream Big Des Moines
This isn’t the type of Iowa polling story you’ve grown accustomed to reading recently. Nope, there are no straws here — just the potential for one Iowa entrepreneur to win up to $15,000 in prizes. Online voting for the Dream Big Des Moines small business contest began Tuesday and will continue until Aug. 31. …
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Don’t Panic Labs’ inaugural summer interns cap program with pitches
As the inaugural Don’t Panic Labs summer internship program drew to a close with presentations on Monday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Kauffman Center, it became increasingly clear the extent to which the interns had run the asylum for the last three months. If it wasn’t evident by their sheer numbers alone — Don’t Panic…
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Q&A: Chris Pirillo on coming home and all things Gnome
In case you didn’t catch wind of it through our announcement last week or via the Facebook event page, let this serve as a friendly reminder that Chris Pirillo is stopping by Amici Espresso (206 6th Ave.) for a meetup tonight from 5:30-8:30. Pirillo, the Des Moines-born founder of the Lockergnome blogging network and the…
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Live-streaming: Weekly Wrap-Up episode No. 100 at 4:30 p.m.
Sometimes, a moment is simply so sublime, so momentous, so transcendent that it’s dubbed “too big for words.” But this post clearly contains words — probably many more than it needs to, in fact — so the whole too-big-for-words description doesn’t apply here. Nonetheless, we think the moment that’s the motivation for this post, our…
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Playing tonight, Doom DJ puts the party playlist in the people’s hands
As anyone who’s had the minor misfortune of attending a party at my apartment can attest, I, against my better judgement and others’ protestations, enjoy masquerading as a DJ. And, although I possess just one form of low-grade DJ software and zero skill jockeying discs, I get strangely territorial about challengers to my throne at…
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Five and Fifty announces SMS ad partner, expansion to four cities
Five and Fifty on Wednesday announced a partnership with 4INFO, the largest SMS ad network in the U.S., that will enable the Overland Park, Kan.-based company …
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Nebraska Angel Tax Credit Program opens to investor applications
The Nebraska Department of Economic Development (DED) today outlined implementation steps for the new Angel Investment Tax Credit Program (LB 389). Investors can start applying today for certification to be eligible for a 35-40 percent refundable state income tax credit for investment in certified Nebraska startups. The bill goes into …
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Kansas City mayors form Innovation Team to capitalize on Google Fiber
Upload and download speeds, it appears, are far from the only things that will be accelerated by the arrival of Google’s Ultra-High Speed Network in Kansas City. The impending installation of the Google Fiber network has also helped jump-start a collaborative effort between city governments of both Kansas Citys. Sly James, the mayor of Kansas…
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Checking in with Sam Schill, startup swag guru and budding entrepreneur
To categorize Sam Schill’s immersion into the world of tech startups using the lexicon of that land, the Ames businessman has quickly gone from just checking in to becoming a veritable super mayor. A little more than a year removed from making his first foray into the landscape of tech entrepreneurship — when he helped…
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