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  • Team Prairie Portrait: Prime of the Mobile Health Accelerator

    For the 10 days leading up to the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars Demo Day we’ll be getting insight from the 10 presenting teams. See what they’ve been up to at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts by registering for free here.

  • Team Prairie Portrait: Tenacity of the Mobile Health Accelerator

    For the 10 days leading up to the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars Demo Day we’ll be getting insight from the 10 presenting teams. See what they’ve been up to at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts by registering for free here.

  • Team Prairie Portrait: ollo mobile of the Mobile Health Accelerator

    For the 10 days leading up to the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars Demo Day we’ll be getting insight from the 10 presenting teams. See what they’ve been up to at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts by registering for free here.

  • Team Prairie Portrait: Sickweather of the Mobile Health Accelerator

    For the 10 days leading up to the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator powered by Techstars Demo Day we’ll be getting insight from the 10 presenting teams. See what they’ve been up to at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, June 10, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts by registering for free here.

  • Prairie Portrait: Anne Moser of Nueterra

    Prairie Portraits is a weekly set of questions intended to help the community get to know someone from the Silicon Prairie startup scene a little bit better. Prairie Portraits feature a fixed set of questions ranging from career background and personal preferences to, perhaps, off-the-wall questions on YouTube videos and entrance music. Name: Anne Moser Title/Occupation: HRIS Analyst…

  • Adam Coomes: “As entrepreneurs, our job is to solve problems”

    (Guest post by Adam Coomes) These days, we’re trained to be analytical. Just look around you. We have fitness devices tracking our every step so we can analyze our habits. We use services like Google Analytics to analyze the results of our work. We use numbers for everything. Entrepreneurs especially are analytical by nature. We…

  • Prairie Portrait: Cameron Webb of Sqwiggle

    I do what I do because… remote working sucks and I want to make it just as good (or better!) than in an office setting.

  • Prairie Portrait: Krista Vogel of Hurrdat

    Entrepreneur I most want to grab a drink with: Probably Bill Gates. I think it’s pretty amazing that he’s already changed the world once through technology, and now he’s making it even better with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Plus, I love Seattle, so I’d be totally OK with meeting him there.

  • Why entrepreneurs don’t really retire, but just start something else

    (Guest post by Bill Goedken) Crazy. Insane. Out of my mind. That’s what I was called when I came out of retirement to start yet another company. So why do I feel so lucky? Quick background: I founded an Omaha-based software and service company called Profitstar in the ’80s. My team and I built up…

  • Startup Spaces: How Shift turned a bland office into a DIY haven

    Nestled on the top floor of a nondescript office building in West Des Moines, the team at Shift has made the most of their shared space with agency Performance Marketing. When Shift moved in last August, the space was your typical, drab office space—fluorescent overhead lighting and beige walls. But now, thanks to the DIY…