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Six keys to selling to businesses
(Guest post by Mike Colwell.) Selling to businesses (B2B) can be hard but I will argue it can be very rewarding. I gained my selling to business experiences in the 80s and early 90s with a company called Norand Data Systems out of Cedar Rapids Iowa. We were selling new technologies (mobile and wireless computing)…
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Prairie Moves: Sue Munnik, Mark Palmer, Juan Gomez 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. …
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Hemesath’s entrepreneurial story is one of seeing, seizing chances
Brian Hemesath wasn’t far removed from the lecture halls of Iowa State University, where he graduated in 1999 with a computer engineering degree, when he took a chance by going to work for a telecom company, Raviant Networks, in 2000. ” ‘Give it a year,’ ” Hemesath recalls being told, ” ‘and you’ll either be…
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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…
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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…
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Prairie Moves: Ed Kuklenski, iapps24, Gordilla 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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Prairie Moves: Fundle, Kickanotch, Gigabit Challenge 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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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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Thank you to our Thinc Iowa sponsors
We’re two months from the inaugural Thinc Iowa conference, and we are humbled by the response of our community and pleased to announce six more sponsors who will help us build this event. Please help us welcome our newest sponsors: Notifyworks, Torsion Mobile, RecoEngine, SeedHere, LiveStream and Microsoft BizSpark. We’d like to extend …