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  • Quick Pitch: Introvio looks to clean up contact cultivation

    Networking, if you ask Mike Templeton, is a dirty word. “For me it generally means standing in a room full of crowded people, blindly introducing myself and my line of work to utter strangers,” Templeton, the founder of Introvio, said of networking in a recent blog post. “There are no warnings about people you should…

  • Quick Pitch: Locusic is ‘like Pandora for local music’ (Video)

    There are plenty of ways to discover new music, but for Jake Kerber, who struggles with Top 40 radio and finds joy in the sounds of his community, there wasn’t an option for local music. So Kerber started Locusic to help users find the beats in their own backyard. Locusic is one of seven entries…

  • Quick Pitch: bHeroic helps volunteers ‘earn their tights’ (Video)

    The Bat-Signal is out across the state of Iowa for all types of heroes, and bHeroic is the startup behind the shining light. Born not in the streets of Gotham City but in the Des Moines community at Startup Weekend 2011, bHeroic, also known as Unleash Heroes, is a free social game that encourages ordinary…

  • Polls open in Iowa … for Dream Big Des Moines

    This isn’t the type of Iowa polling story you’ve grown accustomed to reading recently. Nope, there are no straws here — just the potential for one Iowa entrepreneur to win up to $15,000 in prizes. Online voting for the Dream Big Des Moines small business contest began Tuesday and will continue until Aug. 31. …

  • Central Iowa, submit your idea to Dream Big Des Moines today

    Today’s the day to begin submitting your business ideas to the Dream Big Des Moines contest for a chance to win up to $15,000. Dream Big Des Moines is the central Iowa portion of a state-wide contest “Dream Big Grow Here” being put on by MyEntre.Net, a program of the University of Northern Iowa. …

  • MyEntre.Net giving away $1,000 each month to an entrepreneur

    MyEntre.Net, a web-based support system for entrepreneurs provided by the University of Northern Iowa’s Business and Community Services division, recently launched the Dream Big Grow Here grant program to spur new…