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BIZ Insights: Dan Shipton presents ‘Straight talk about mobile’ (Video)
Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, led by Mike Colwell, holds a monthly educational luncheon for entrepreneurs in Central Iowa. Titled “Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series,” each event features a speaker from the Des Moines community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high growth…
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BIZ Luncheon Series: Brian Hemesath on bootstrapping
Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds a monthly educational luncheon for entrepreneurs across Central Iowa. Called the “Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series,” each luncheon features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high growth…
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Startup Models seeks to simplify financial modeling for entrepreneurs
Through his years of helping startups grow at the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, Mike Colwell …
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With automated email, NotifyWorks hopes to keep deadlines in mind
If the team at NotifyWorks has its way, cluttered file drawers will no longer be the place that memory of important dates and deadlines goes to die — not if the owners of those file drawers use NotifyWorks first, anyway. NotifyWorks …
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PrairieCast with Norah Carroll and Mike Colwell (Video)
Always planning ahead, Andy prepared our 52nd episode since I was scheduled to spend the week across the street as a dutiful juror at the Polk County Courthouse. However, the trial wrapped a good 20 minutes before showtime, so I jumped in the second chair to join guests Norah Carroll of Lava Row and Mike…
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BIZ Luncheon Series: Drew McLellan on digital marketing trends (Video)
Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds a monthly educational luncheon for entrepreneurs across Central Iowa. Called the “Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series,” each luncheon features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high growth…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Norah Carroll and Mike Colwell
Tune in this afternoon at 2 for Episode 52 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office in Des Moines. Geoff is serving his civic duty as juror across the street at the Polk County Courthouse, so Andy will be running the show with first-time guest Norah Carroll (right photo from lavarow.com), a…
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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. …
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Prairie Moves: Jennifer Hoyt, Red Nova Labs, Bumble 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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Continuing the discussion on ‘starting a business in Iowa’
Last month, the Des Moines Register ran an article titled “Why is it so hard to start a business in Iowa?” in which the writer, Lynn Hicks, asked several entrepreneurs and community members, “What can state or local officials do to help startups and create an innovative culture?” In the article, four main ideas were…