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Prairie Moves: Todd Razor, Becky Mollenkamp, Kickanotch and more
Thinc Iowa preparations have me occupied during the week so I’m finding time to catch up on content on Saturdays and Sundays. Enjoy this fresh off the press Prairie Moves (links gathered through today) that’s just a few days later than its usual Thursday appearance. Also, if you’d like to see what we’ve been up…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Bo Fishback: The moment
“So I’ve been around so many startups that I’ve seen a lot of moments,” Fishback says. “You know, I’ve said many times to people from the idea someone has an idea to the time they start a company, it’s almost universally one year. I don’t know why. That’s just, like, law of averages or whatever.…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Aneesh Chopra: The U.S. need for entrepreneurship
“What Big Omaha means to me,” Chopra says, “is that there is a whole untapped base of entrepreneurial energy that, if we are organized in the right way, they can be successful as entrepreneurs and help our country meet its goals, from improving our health care system, improving our educational system, building a clean energy…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Micah Baldwin: Conference of hope
“Do I think that this is an ambitious conference?” Baldwin says. “I categorize it much more as hope, and I think hope is much more about community where ambition is much more about individuals. And I think, for Jeff and Dusty, they’re very hopeful that the community will grow to what the community will allow…
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Guest Post: Why ThINC Iowa? The story behind the ‘inc’
(This is a guest post by Camille Wolfe of Performance Marketing, our Des Moines-based design and identity partner for Thinc Iowa.) Before Thinc Iowa was Thinc Iowa, it was an idea in search of an identity. Performance Marketing was delighted to be part of that creative process from the beginning. Of course, before we could…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Gary & AJ Vaynerchuk: Context & happiness
“You know,” Gary Vaynerchuk says, “I’ve always known that context — and I didn’t know how to express it — was the whole game, right? For example, you have a feeling towards me right now that is different than you have towards AJ because we engaged together last year, so we created context, right? And…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Leila Janah: Being useful in the world
“It’s funny,” Janah says, “I don’t really consider myself that ambitious. I think I’m just frustrated by the way things are, and I think I’m constantly imagining ways that we could do better. I first got interested in poverty alleviation in Africa when I was a student in high school when I was 16, and…
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Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Marc Eckō: The role of authenticity
“The journey that I’ve managed to kind of go on,” Eckō said, “in building the businesses I’ve been in has been one where I’ve been very self reflective over the last three years. And I’ve really, deeply thought about the role of authenticity and what that means and how to attempt to — even though…
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Thinc Iowa 2011 schedule
With yesterday’s addition of Pinterest co-founder Ben Silbermann to our inaugural Thinc Iowa speaker lineup, we’re now all set to announce our full schedule and details. In doing so, we’re also excited to announce that the talented Matthew McIver, the artistic director of the Des Moines Social Club, will be serving as our MC. McIver…
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