Christian Gurney

  • Mojaba creator builds custom web service to ease wedding day headaches

    The team at Des Moines-based startup Torsion Mobile, a mobile solutions provider, decided marrying couples have enough to worry about on their big day…

  • The founder, startup culture and lessons from the Bushmen

    Startup founders establish the culture of their companies. Culture means different things to different people, but here we’re discussing the way the startup works, how team members interact, their work ethic, how they behave and how they react to outside inputs. How that culture expresses itself can be a strong asset to the startup or…

  • BIZ Luncheon Series: Christian Gurney on product build and launch

    The Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, led by Mike Colwell, holds a series of educational luncheons, the Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series, for entrepreneurs in Central Iowa. Each event in the series features a speaker from the Des Moines community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people…

  • Mojaba aims to make building mobile sites easy for creative professionals

    Torsion Mobile, a Des Moines-based startup building mobile solutions for creative professionals, released its first product, Mojaba, in early February with the mission to make mobile websites easier to build. Mojaba, pronounced “mo-jah-ba,” was developed for the nearly 80 percent of websites not currently formatted for mobile devices, Torsion co-founders Christian Gurney (far left) and…

  • Guest Post: Thursday’s AWS Lean Startup live stream is worth a watch

    I’ve often said that getting a technology startup launched has never been easier. So many services, software and …

  • Demonstration Fund awards Torsion Mobile $50K for stealthy Mojaba

    Torsion Mobile today divulged new details on a project it has kept under wraps for months, most notably that the project will benefit from $50,000 in state funding. Torsion, a Des Moines-based mobile solutions provider co-founded by Christian Gurney and Richard Kirsner, received $50,000 from the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) …

  • PrairieCast with Christian Gurney and Christopher New (Video)

    On this week’s PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Christian Gurney of Torsion Mobile and Christopher New of Event1Video and a contributor to Silicon Prairie News. Discussed this week: Archrival’s presentation at the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, TechStars Startup Madness tournament, SmartyPig CEO on working for a Silicon Prairie-based…

  • PrairieCast live stream: 1:30 with Christian Gurney & Christopher New

    Tune in at 1:30 p.m. CST today for Episode 31 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Christian Gurney of Torsion Mobile and Christopher New, video producer and Des Moines contributor to Silicon Prairie News. Discussion topics will include the role of branding in attracting talent to Midwestern…

  • PrairieCast: 1:30 Tues. with Christian Gurney and Christopher New

    Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, March 29 at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 31 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Christian Gurney of Torsion Mobile and Christopher New, Video producer and Des Moines contributor to Silicon Prairie News. Discussion topics will include the role of branding in attracting…