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Watch the 16 final pitches of Startup Weekend Des Moines (Video)
To wrap up our coverage of Startup Weekend Des Moines, we’ve edited down our video of Sunday’s three-hour final pitch session to an hour and fifteen minutes, presenting all 16 team pitches and the award ceremony to top it off. Here are winners of the weekend, as selected by judges Ben Milne of Dwolla, Mike…
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The Silicon Prairie at SXSW 2012: Panels, pitches, party and more
“Spring break for nerds” is about to begin – er, I mean – South by Southwest Interactive starts Friday in Austin. The annual event, one of three events that make up the 10-day South by Southwest festival, will bring together nearly 20,000 people from around the world for five days of panels, presentations, parties and…
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For the Love of Cities: YP Summit attendees share why they love Omaha
Peter Kageyama closed the Feb. 29 Young Professionals Summit with his “For the Love of Cities” presentation, a keynote that provoked attendees to think about what creates points of pride in every city. In his talk, Kageyama provided examples of the love and emotional engagement that stem up organically in various …
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Dwolla sued by former Bitcoin exchange, issues statement
A rocky relationship that we wrote about July has reemerged today with news that TradeHill, a former online Bitcoin exchange based in San Francisco and Chile, on Monday filed a federal lawsuit against Dwolla, an online cash transfer startup based in Des Moines. The lawsuit lists nine complaints, including false advertising, breach of contract and…
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Archrival rolls out Red Bull’s new Facebook look
Archrival last week laid claim to another Facebook first. Archrival, the Lincoln-based youth marketing agency that’s part of the Austin, Texas-based Dachis Group, launched Red Bull’s new Facebook Timeline as one of a select few Facebook partners that were given early access to Timeline for brands. As part of the new Red Bull Facebook page,…
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Attention students: Startup Job Crawl returns to Des Moines, April 4
Spring semester rolls along and if you’re a student, you’ll soon be on the post-Spring Break prowl for a summer internship search. Join Silicon Prairie News from 5-8 p.m. April 4 for the Startup Job Crawl to help you with this search and much more. The Startup Job Crawl, will take its second set of…
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RareWire to move from Kansas to Missouri, create 40 new jobs
The Missouri Department of Economic Development announced in a press release Monday that RareWire is …
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Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Brian Waller and Danny Schreiber
Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 77 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We’ll be joined by Brian Waller of the Iowa Economic Development Authority and our own Danny Schreiber to talk about Bloom’s big funding and to preview the Silicon Prairie’s involvement in South By Southwest Interactive this weekend. Did you…
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Kansas City’s Tech ESP sets all six dates, first three speakers for 2012
Kansas City’s Technology Entrepreneur Speakers Program is back for 2012, and the first three of the program’s six speakers for the year have been confirmed. Maria Flynn, the president and CEO of Orbis Biosciences, will present at the first …