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EntreFEST to host Dream Big Grow Here with Lt. Governor, Carl Blake
Organizers announced Wednesday that, in an effort to foster entrepreneurship in Iowa, a statewide Dream Big Grow Here pitch-off will be held May 15 in conjunction with EntreFEST…
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Dream Big Grow Here application process open across Iowa
The Dream Big Grow Here contest is back again with $15,000 in grants for one Iowa entrepreneur and smaller grants for several more. An event we covered extensively last year, Dream Big Grow Here starts with a series …
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EntreFest! returning March 8-9 to showcase entrepreneurship in Iowa
The fifth annual EntreFest! conference is set to “highlight the thriving world of entrepreneurship in Iowa” March 8-9 in Ames. The event, which will take place at the Gateway Hotel and Conference Center, features speeches, networking events and breakout sessions on subjects including New Technology Tools, Why Search Engine Optimization is Important, How to Keep…
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Quick Pitch: Shoplr seeks to serve as local radar for shoppers
If the team at Shoplr has its way, people won’t venture anywhere without scanning their radar — not for ominous storm fronts or looming low-pressure systems, but for deals. Shoplr, which derives its name from “shopping” and “Doppler” (as in the weather-tracking radar) is a mobile application for discovering real-time offers from local businesses. …
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Quick Pitch: Skowty strives for friction-free home-buying
Location, location, location. The age-old adage in the real estate industry suggests it’s a business all about the “L” word. But Josh Cowman and Jon Kettler know there’s plenty more to it than that: timing, too, plays an important part in the buying and selling of homes. “We know,” Cowman said in his Dream Big…
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Prairie Moves: Slash Web Studios, Syncbak, Sojern and more
What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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, please…
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The Dream Big Central Iowa winner is … Real Estate Fan Pages
Edging out second place by more than 500 votes, Matthew Smith of Real Estate Fan Pages is the winner of Central Iowa division of MyEntre.Net’s statewide Dream Big Grow Here contest. Smith, the owner of S&G Real Estate Investments, will take home $5,000 from the local contest facilitated by the Business Innovation Zone and move…
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Quick Pitch: Finalize It simplifies merger and acquisition documents
For attorneys at the heart of mergers and acquisitions or other financing transactions, paper is plentiful and tends to pile up in a hurry — hundreds of documents over the course of a deal, hundreds more emails per day in the run-up to closing. Finalize It is a cloud-based software service that aims to turn…
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Quick Pitch: Real Estate Pages makes ‘fully customizable’ Facebook pages
‘Location, location, location’ is a common mantra in the real estate industry. Now with the idea for Real Estate Fan Pages, realtors can live up to the phrase, find potential home-buyers and end the hunt in house-hunting with one online location: Facebook. Real Estate Fan Pages is one of seven entries in the Dream Big…
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Quick Pitch: SquareTap is one-stop shop for web-based mobile apps
Already well-acquainted with the App Store? Well, now get to know the TapStore. Seeking to sidestep the hassles of creating native mobile apps for each of the different mobile platforms, SquareTap, also dubbed “the TapStore,” provides a custom home page for a smart phone’s web browser, giving users a customized, central source for their favorite…