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  • Revisiting the question of who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines

    Last December, I wrote a post asking “Who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines?” In that post, I shared the results of an informal (and unscientific) poll that I conducted around the community to seek out which companies were the “top startups.” While Dwolla was a unanimous selection at No. 1, there was no…

  • Do what you do best

    (Guest post by Michael Ferrari.) Sure the idea was mine, but to bring my idea to life, I needed help. This may or may not hold true for everyone starting a company. And more power to you, if you can design, build and launch your product on your own. Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com, once…

  • Watch Social Money’s demo of GoalSaver at Finovate (Video)

    We’ve covered Social Money and its GoalSaver product fairly frequently in recent months, but when Social Money co-founder Michael Ferrari and president Scott McCormack stepped on stage last month at Finovate Spring 2012 in San Francisco, they provided another spin on GoalSaver, a white-label social savings product offered by the West Des Moines-based company. GoalSaver,…

  • Prairie Portrait: Sarah Foss of Social Money

    Silicon Prairie News: What’s the CliffsNotes version of the story of how a college English major becomes marketing director for a financial tech company? | Sarah Foss: Once I discovered I couldn’t support my shopping habit by being a writer, I went into what all young twenty-something gals do for lucrative means – sales. I…

  • Social Money set to double staff, space in coming months

    Social Money today announced plans to more than double its workspace and workforce this summer. The company, which makes products for goal-based, social savings, currently has 30 employees. Most are based in Social Money’s West Des Moines headquarters. The company said in a release that it plans to hire close to 35 additional employees, both…