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  • PrairieCast with Sam DuRegger, Tej Dhawan and Drew Larson (Video)

    Not one, not two, but three guests on this week’s PrairieCast. When he heard that the “stop online piracy act” (SOPA) was on our discussion list for the week, BrownWinick’s Drew Larson couldn’t wait to drop his knowledge of the subject on our audience. Actually, that’s not true. After learning that Larson was planning a…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Sam DuRegger and Tej Dhawan

    This week on PrairieCast will feature the return of Charming Beard’s Sam DuRegger and the second straight week of Startup City’s Tej Dhawan. Join us live at 2 p.m. to participate in the show. We’ll be talking about what’s next for Des Moines’ tech corridor, Michael Arrington’s thoughts on the whiners in Silicon Valley, the…

  • PrairieCast with Nathan T. Wright and Tej Dhawan (Video)

    Lava Row’s Nathan T. Wright and Startup City’s Tej Dhawan are back for this week’s PrairieCast where we talk about Des Moines’ Startup Job Crawl, Zaarly’s Bo Fishback on the Cover of Entrepreneur magazine, tech blogger turnover, Ben Milne’s national TV debut and the unfortunate state of health insurance for startup companies. PrairieCast is a…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Nathan T. Wright and Tej Dhawan

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 63 of PrairieCast, streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office at the south end of Des Moines’ Silicon Sixth Avenue. Today’s guests are Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row and Tej Dhawan of StartupCity Des Moines …

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Tej Dhawan & Startup Weekend Iowa City ticket giveaway

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 57 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Silicon Prairie News office in downtown Des Moines. Our guest today is Tej Dhawan (left, from tejdhawan.com), one of the founders of Startup City Des Moines, who will be talking with us about their recent funding announcement. We’ll also be…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Tej Dhawan & Startup Weekend Iowa City ticket giveaway

    Join us live at 2 p.m. Tuesday for episode 57 of PrairieCast with special guest Tej Dhawan (left, from tejdhawan.com) of Startup City Des Moines. Dhawan is joining us just a few days after an exciting announcement of a funding award to Startup City by the State of Iowa (see our post “StartupCity Des Moines…

  • SPN Out & About: Startup Storm recap

    This past Saturday I had the privilege to speak at Startup Storm, a first of its kind event put on by Macy Koch, a senior at Simpson College. The event, billed as “teaching and supporting innovation and entrepreneurial development,” featured an opening keynote by Nathan T. Wright, founder of Lava Row and co-founder of Uppward,…

  • Events: Builders Forum, TechBrew, Startup Weekend and more

    It’s shaping up to be a busy week for folks in Des Moines, where three events of interest are scheduled over four nights. Later in the week, Omaha and Kansas…

  • Christian Renaud announces Startup City Des Moines

    Yesterday afternoon, local entrepreneur and startup enthusiast Christian Renaud (left, photo from christianrenaud.com) gathered a group of 20 or so people in the back half of Java Joes coffee house in downtown Des Moines. The focus of the gathering, which I attended, was to explore the need as well as judge the interest level of…