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What makes coworking work?
For years, startup founders and entrepreneurs across the Silicon Prairie have sought to get out of basements and coffee shops and make the move to professional workspaces. Thus, a startup culture staple – coworking – emerged. Coworking spaces in and nearby the region’s flagship cities of Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City have been on…
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Startup Fair draws 100 exhibitors, more than 400 visitors across Iowa
Given the record temperatures on the last day of January, Tuesday evening’s Iowa Startup Fair could probably have been held outdoors at the state fairgrounds. But since meteorologists’ predictive powers are still far short of Nostradamus, the crowd at StartupCity Des Moines, Amici and other area locations would have to just crack some windows to…
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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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With Iowa Startup Alliance, spaces to open doors to visiting entrepreneurs
Like wildfire or something else that makes for less trite similes but spreads in equally speedy fashion, coworking spaces and incubators seem to have swept across the Silicon Prairie in recent months. From Sioux City to Cedar Rapids, from the DSM to KCMO, there is, at present, a proliferation of the places opening their doors…
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Tools of the Trade: Loosecubes makes it easy to find coworking near you
If you haven’t heard already, the coworking phenomenon is spreading across the country. Right here on Silicon Prairie News we’ve covered CAMP in Omaha, The Foundry in Des Moines, Meso in Sioux Falls and most recently Vault Coworking in Cedar Rapids. It seems if you’re an entrepreneur, why would you work anywhere else? But what…
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Prairie Moves: Christopher New, Emma Peterson, Fresk and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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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PrairieCast with Emma Peterson and Alexander Grgurich (Video)
On this week’s PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Emma Peterson of Tikly and Alexander Grgurich of Foundry Coworking and TEDx Des Moines. Discussed this week: Zaarly adds Arrington to investor list, sets sights on seven core cities, Dwolla hits $1M a week in transactions, Iowa usage surpassedDwolla hits $1M a week…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Emma Peterson and Alexander Grgurich
Tune in tomorrow at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 43 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We’ll be joined by guests Emma Peterson (left), founder of Tikly, and Alexander Grgurich, director of Foundry Coworking and facilitator of the upcoming TEDx Des Moines. Discussion topics will include …
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PrairieCast with Michael Ferrari and Alexander Grgurich (Video)
Our guests yesterday were Michael Ferrari of SmartyPig and Alexander Grgurich of Foundry Coworking and TEDxDesMoines. Topics discussed: – Lodo launches add-on to leverage info captured by OurCashFlow – DSM Daily prepares to serve up only locally-owned daily deals – Wade Arnold and T8 Webware: From dorm room to board room – SXSW 2011 preparations…