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Ten reasons to attend OpenIowa, a public data competition
Ready for a challenge? StartupIowa is daring developers, designers and data junkies to turn public data sets into something useful at its first OpenIowa event. The code-a-thon is similar to other open-data events sprouting up around the country, like the recent Hack Omaha. Similar to Startup Weekend, OpenIowa challenges attendees to launch a product in…
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Startup Fair draws 100 exhibitors, more than 400 visitors across Iowa
Given the record temperatures on the last day of January, Tuesday evening’s Iowa Startup Fair could probably have been held outdoors at the state fairgrounds. But since meteorologists’ predictive powers are still far short of Nostradamus, the crowd at StartupCity Des Moines, Amici and other area locations would have to just crack some windows to…
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Prairie Portrait: Becky Mollenkamp of StartupCity Des Moines
Bio: I’m a St. Louis native but, after 11 years here, consider Des Moines home. I have a bachelor’s in Journalism and a master’s in Communications, which really just means I’m skilled at bullshitting. | Title: City Manager at StartupCity Des Moines (event planning, social media, dorm mom). | City: A proud resident of the…
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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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Prairie Moves: Cassius Almeida, Ginger Stevenson, John Wirtz & more
(Photo by Antaean via Flicker) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…