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Out and about by The Bay: A photo recap of SPN’s visit to San Francisco
Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but…
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Iowa Governor Branstad makes a stop at Pinterest (Photo)
Pinterest’s connection to Iowa was not lost on our state’s leadership today as Gov. Terry Branstad made a stop by their offices in Palo Alto, Calif. Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann (left of the Pinterest “P” above) is a Des Moines native who said in an email today that the visit was exciting for the team…
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Thinc Iowa Video Series: Ben Silbermann of Pinterest
First up in our Video Series: Ben Silberman, co-founder of Pinterest, an online pinboard site that gives its users a place to discover new things handpicked by other users. In his talk, Silbermann shared the story of his journey to entrepreneurship, the story of co-founding Pinterest and a few things that are inspirational to him…
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Thinc Iowa: Ben Silbermann on inspiring ‘the confidence to do things that you would never do’
Ben Silbermann is the co-founder of a startup, Pinterest, that just closed a $27 million round and has been heralded as the “hottest startup of late in Silicon Valley.” His work led one Thinc Iowa conference-goer to suggest during a Q&A session that Silbermann’s alma matter, Des Moines’ Roosevelt High School, build a statue in…
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Pin it! Pinterest co-founder added to Thinc Iowa lineup
How about one more? As we’ve been talking about Thinc Iowa for a nearly a year now we’ve been promising an event that will bring eight dynamic “doers” from around the country to Des Moines to spearhead a conversation on how startups and corporations can work together and learn from each other. Today, we’re very…