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  • Startups strut stuff in first-year showcase at 80/35 Music Festival

    The inaugural year of Start-Up Central at 80/35 was modest — a single tent, promising information and a bit of shade on a sweltering day — but festival officials and startup founders alike see potential to build on the relationship between technology and music. “We actually share quite a bit in that we need to…

  • Start-Up Central to put tech startups on display at 80/35 Music Festival

    Music fans headed to Des Moines’ Western Gateway Park on Saturday for the 80/35 Music Festival probably have designs on catching Death Cab For Cutie, the concert’s second-day headliner. Other concert-goers may be drawn in by acts like Atmosphere, Greensky Bluegrass or Leftover Salmon. But what about Dwolla? Or BettrLife? And Locusic? That trio, along…