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  • Thinc Iowa: Andy Murray on overcoming ‘poverty of creativity’

    Andy Murray, the founder and chairman of Saatchi & Saatchi X, kicked off Thinc Iowa as the first speaker today at the Temple for Performing Arts in Des Moines. Murray discussed the common challenges that both corporations and startups share and focused the rest of his talk on the five themes that make entrepreneurship in…

  • Thinc Iowa: Photo booth fun from the opening party

    Give the photos from Thinc Iowa’s opening party a once-over and you might mistake our conference on the common ground between corporations and startups for an event focused on the place where Clark Kent and Superman meet. That is to say, the phone booth was a busy spot at last night’s opening bash. An estimated…

  • Tune in here: Thinc Iowa live-streaming all day

    Thanks to the support of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, a Kansas City-based foundation that works to harness the power of entrepreneurship and innovation, we’ll be live-streaming all nine speaker presentations of our Thinc Iowa conference at no charge and ad-free. With this awesome opportunity in mind, we’d ask that you take part …

  • Watch the Thinc Iowa live stream, join the conversation

    From the moment the emcee takes the stage at our inaugural Thinc Iowa conference on Friday, we will amplify the important conversation taking place inside the walls of the venue by providing a free live stream of every speaker presentation, from Andy Murray at 9:15 a.m. to Ben Silbermann at 4:50 p.m. (See full schedule.)…

  • Get to know the Thinc Iowa speakers

    Headed to Thinc Iowa but haven’t had time yet to study up on all the presenters? Not to worry; we can help you cram before Friday. We did our homework on all the Thinc Iowa speakers so that you can brush up on them before you sit down at the Temple for Performing Arts on…

  • A complete roundup of Big Omaha 2011 videos

    That’s all she wrote. We appear to have milked every last drop from the content cow that is Big Omaha. With the publication of the final post from our Big Omaha Backstage Pass series on Monday, we have provided an exhaustive look at the energy and emotions, the ideas and insights, the sights and sounds…

  • Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Shervin Pishevar: Mentorship is a gift

    “One, I think mentorship is a gift in and of itself,” Pishevar says. “By mentoring you’re already giving something to the mentor, right, as the mentee. So the value of it is just being in that relationship as a mentor and a mentee. And so if you go about it with that attitude it, as…

  • Thinc Iowa Closing Party presented by Microsoft BizSpark coming Friday

    Wrap up the inaugural Thinc Iowa experience with the Closing Party presented by Microsoft BizSpark. The party, which starts at 8 p.m. on Friday at Americana (1312 Locust St), is open to the public. (The Thinc Iowa Opening Party presented by T8 Webware is open to the public.) By this time in the conference, attendees…

  • It’s here! Thinc Iowa week begins

    Thinc Iowa week is here! Can you believe it? It’s somewhat surreal that we started working on this idea over a year ago and now the time has come to make it happen. This is going to be a special event, bringing people from across the nation to Des Moines for an important conversation about…

  • Sunday Video: Paige Craig on the importance of employee perks

    As we kick off the week of Thinc Iowa, today’s Sunday Video Series features one of the nine speakers that will take the stage on Friday at the Temple for Performing Arts in downtown Des Moines. The mission of Thinc Iowa is to provide a common ground for established corporations and startups. With this common…