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  • Bawte announces integration with Amazon through purchase receipts

    Inputting your newly purchased products into Bawte just became a little bit easier. That is, if you’re shopping on Amazon. The company announced Wednesday that its app—which allows users to tag purchased items and receive product manuals or service information—will now integrate with Amazon through purchase receipts.

  • Weekly Recap: Bawte on TV, Tesla banned and Big Omaha coverage

    Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read as well as SPN’s most-read stories over the last week.

  • After pitching at SXSW, John Jackovin shares tips for first-time attendees

    Last week Bawte co-founder and CEO John Jackovin traveled to Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, but before he even set foot in the Lone Star State, Jackovin was looking for opportunities to share his startup with a larger audience. “This was my first SXSW so I went in pretty blind,” he said. “I used…

  • Bawte nabs second place in ReleaseIT at SXSW pitch competition

    Des Moines startup Bawte gained some national recognition Friday when co-founder John Jackovin took second place in the ReleaseIT at SXSW pitch competition. “It’s always a good idea to pitch any time you can,” Jackovin told the Des Moines Register. “Being at SXSW, it makes it an even better idea. While I would have loved to have won it, getting second…

  • Bawte relaunches to focus on customer service, experience

    For nearly two years, co-founder and CEO John Jackovin has been working on Bawte, a company that launched its new iOS app and web platform Wednesday …

  • Co-founders sell Big Blue Window, focus efforts fully on Bawte

    Since 2004, Big Blue Window, an ecommerce retailer for window grilles, has been a project of John Jackovin and his long-time business partner, Tom Love. That is, until recently when the pair sold the company to focus their efforts fully on Bawte, another company Jackovin and Love co-founded …

  • Three Silicon Prairie startups to compete for monthly Dream Big title

    Come Tuesday three Silicon Prairie startups will go head to head for the monthly title on Dream Big America, a weekly radio pitch competition. It’ll be the first monthly face-off, which pits each week’s winners. Tune in at 9:10 a.m. to hear Des Moines-based Bawte, myEDmatch …

  • Pitching at CES: Bawte co-founder shares lessons from Vegas visit

    The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest gathering of technology suppliers, buyers and techno-nerds possibly in the world. I attended CES for three full days in hopes of getting new leads for my startup, Bawte. Bawte is a consumer-facing app that allows our users to tag the products they buy to create a…

  • Revisiting the question of who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines

    Last December, I wrote a post asking “Who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines?” In that post, I shared the results of an informal (and unscientific) poll that I conducted around the community to seek out which companies were the “top startups.” While Dwolla was a unanimous selection at No. 1, there was no…

  • Startups strut stuff in first-year showcase at 80/35 Music Festival

    The inaugural year of Start-Up Central at 80/35 was modest — a single tent, promising information and a bit of shade on a sweltering day — but festival officials and startup founders alike see potential to build on the relationship between technology and music. “We actually share quite a bit in that we need to…