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Dwolla axes fees on transactions less than $10, says more details to come
On the one-year anniversary of Dwolla’s national launch, the Des Moines-based payment platform is celebrating with a gift for businesses that accept Dwolla for small transactions. Dwolla CEO Ben Milne announced today in a blog post that all transactions of less than $10 on Dwolla are now free. Previously, Dwolla charged a flat fee …
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Who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines?
Over the past week or two I’ve asked several folks in Des Moines the same question, “Who is the No. 1 startup in Des Moines?” The answer, almost always, is Dwolla. Some say it quickly while others try to determine a measurement criteria before answering, but either way Dwolla is where they end up. The…
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Prairie Moves: Sam Wilken, Local Hero Design, Locusic and more
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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Prairie Moves: myLocal Cooperative, Proxibid, Scott Meyer and more
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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Prairie Moves: Sojern, Annie Sorensen, Wade Arnold and more
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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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PrairieCast with Sam DuRegger and Jordan Lampe (Video)
Three firsts in this week’s episode: Sam DuRegger of Charming Beard Productions joined us as a guest, we celebrated a guest’s birthday on the show and the same guest made a quick exit moments later (due to what turned out to be some first-time pregnancy jitters — it happens to the best of us). It…
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Prairie Moves: Sean Freitag, Eric Clymer, Shift and more
What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays (one day late this week) 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…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Jordan Lampe and Sam DuRegger
Today at 2 p.m. we’ll broadcast Episode 61 of PrairieCast live from our office at the south end of Des Moines’ Silicon Sixth Avenue. True to our promise last week of having a more regular group of guests, Jordan Lampe of Dwolla will join us for a second week in a row. Sam DuRegger of…
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Prairie Moves: Marq Manner, VoterTide, Kelsey Dempsey and more
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 email …
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PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright and Jordan Lampe (Video)
After two weeks off for Thinc Iowa (me) and a new baby (Andy), we’re back with episode 60 of your favorite weekly podcast: PrairieCast! During those two weeks of “down time,” we came up with some new ideas for the show and we’ll be rolling them out over the next several episodes. First and foremost,…