Geoff Wood

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. Tuesday with Wade Arnold of T8 Webware

    Join us at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Episode 58 of PrairieCast with guest Wade Arnold, CEO of Cedar Falls-based T8 Webware. Arnold is fresh off a trip to New York to debut T8 Webware’s new Grip software, and we’ll talk with him about his experiences there as well as all that’s new with one of…

  • Prairie Moves: Flying Hippo, Hurrdat, Grip 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…

  • PrairieCast with Tej Dhawan of StartupCity & Startup Weekend ticket giveaway (Video)

    This week on PrairieCast, we turn the model on its side! Andy and our guest, Tej Dwahan of Startup City Des Moines, are live in our studio in the Midland Building, and I join via Skype from the Kauffman Foundation’s headquarters in Kansas City. Dwahan’s incubator project is close to launching, and he shared lots…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Tej Dhawan & Startup Weekend Iowa City ticket giveaway

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 57 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office in downtown Des Moines. Our guest today is Tej Dhawan (left, from tejdhawan.com), one of the founders of Startup City Des Moines, who will be talking with us about their recent funding announcement. We’ll also be…

  • Startup Weekend launches Startup Foundation, announces board

    In partnership with Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, Seattle-based Startup Weekend today launched the …

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Tej Dhawan & Startup Weekend Iowa City ticket giveaway

    Join us live at 2 p.m. Tuesday for episode 57 of PrairieCast with special guest Tej Dhawan (left, from tejdhawan.com) of Startup City Des Moines. Dhawan is joining us just a few days after an exciting announcement of a funding award to Startup City by the State of Iowa (see our post “StartupCity Des Moines…

  • PrairieCast with Brian Hemesath of Catchwind & VolunteerLocal (Video)

    Episode 56: The one where everybody got funded This week our guest on PrairieCast was Brian Hemesath the Des Moines-based serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies, including Catchwind, VolunteerLocal and Notifyworks. Hemesath previewed his BIZ Luncheon Series presentation on lessons learned while bootstrapping his startups. Stay tuned here at Silicon Prairie News to see…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Brian Hemesath

    Join us live at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 56 of PrairieCast with guest Brian Hemesath. Hemesath, a serial entrepreneur currently working on Catchwind, VolunteerLocal and NotifyWorks, will preview his presentation for tomorrow’s BIZ Networking Lunchoen on boostrapping his startups. He’ll also discuss the news of the week including Startup Weekend Omaha, Tom Chapman’s “Stack…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Brian Hemesath of Catchwind & VolunteerLocal

    Join us Tuesday at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 56 of PrairieCast with our guest Brian Hemesath, the CEO of Catchwind and my business partner at VolunteerLocal. Hemesath, a veteran of the Des Moines startup community, will give us an update on his latest ventures as well as a bit of preview on what he’ll…

  • PrairieCast with David Graff of Hudl (Video)

    Episode 55: The one where we talk football and startups – This week on PrairieCast our guest is David Graff, CEO and co-founder of Hudl, the Lincoln-based sports technology venture that now provides video software to more than one third of all high school sports teams in the US. Graff is one of our most…