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‘Hacker spirit’ pushes Shift’s Sinclair to keep tinkering, building
If it’s Friday and it’s lunchtime and Ben Sinclair isn’t at Performance Marketing’s West Des Moines offices, it’s a pretty safe bet where he is instead. He’s making a beeline to the buffet line. Mind you, he’s not there for the fare — Sinclair gives the food a review that’s lukewarm at best — but…
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Prairie Moves: James Armstead, Fresk, Nebraska Global 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,…
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Twists, turns lead Ginkens and company to ideal position
When Erin Ginkens opened the current chapter of her career five years ago by leaving a job to launch her own business venture, she did so with what she believed was a pretty good idea of how the story would play out. “I thought that I was going to market a billing program I had…
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Thinking social again, Dwolla’s Dollar Thoughts looks to up its userbase
Over the weekend, Dwolla co-founder Ben Milne and Entrepreneurial Technologies’ James Armstead created Dollar Thoughts, a website that features user-submitted short statements and allows visitors to vote each statement up or down and share on Facebook or Twitter. With the implementation …