Des Moines Startup Drinks

  • Events: Omaha YP Summit, Startup Drinks, Awesome Camp and more

    Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. For more, visit our …

  • Startup Drinks tomorrow, Thursday’s Cornstalks canceled

    It’s a fairly slow week on the Silicon Prairie for entrepreneur-focused events, but with the addition of BarCamp Omaha and Highlight Midwest in November, next month…

  • Startup Drinks, Pitch & Grow, Cornstalks &’The Social Network’

    Beginning with Startup Drinks in Des Moines tomorrow night and closing with the midnight showing of The Social Network in Omaha on Thursday, there’s a healthy selection of entrepreneur events…

  • Startup Drinks, Jeff Pulver Tweetup & Cornstalks

    If you’re an entrepreneur in Omaha or Des Moines, we encourage you to try and make it to one of this week’s three events below. Also, check out Tony Hsieh’s Delivering…

  • Des Moines Startup Drinks tonight at Tally’s in Beaverdale

    The second Des Moines Startup Drinks gathering is tonight at Tally’s Restaurant Bar (2712 Beaver Ave) in Beaverdale from 5-7 p.m. This event is being sponsored by Mike Colwell and the Business Innovation Zone of Central Iowa (BIZCI). The first event, held in March, attracted more than 50 startup enthusiasts to the venue’s rooftop patio.…

  • Startup Drinks and Twestival hit Des Moines this week

    The first Startup Drinks gathering and second annual Twestival will both take place in Des Moines this week. Des Moines Startup Drinks is a casual, monthly meetup of entrepreneurs, small business owners and others who are interested in local startup culture. The first event takes place tonight at 5 p.m. on…

  • Christian Renaud talks about the needs of a startup community

    In the second part of my interview with Christian Renaud, CEO of Palisade Systems, we discussed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Des Moines. Christian’s broad experience in the entrepreneurial space, including nearly eight years targeting and vetting new markets for Cisco Systems at the company’s San Francisco headquarters, gives him the unique perspective to benchmark the…