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Everything you need to know about the four IA Startup Weekends this fall
At this point, Startup Weekends are fairly common occurrences across entrepreneurial communities. But it’s not often that four Startup Weekends are organized within a few weeks of each other in the same state. Starting on Sept. 5, there will be four Startup Weekends hosted across Iowa—Sioux City, Iowa City, Des Moines and Cedar Falls—in the…
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Coming soon: Inaugural Des Moines Tech Week slated for Oct. 8-17
It’s not often an entire community gets together to celebrate its collective accomplishments, but come October central Iowa community members are hoping to do just that.
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Voting for Startup Weekend’s Global Startup Battle is now live
A number of Silicon Prairie teams are getting ready to rumble as voting for the Global Startup Battle is officially up and running as the teams prepare to go head-to-head in the worldwide competition. The tied winners of Startup Weekend Des Moines—BeardOrNot.co and Brickit—as well as Startup Weekend Kansas City’s winner Pijjin will compete with…
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Beard rating site, Lego mosaic service tie at Startup Weekend DSM
Two teams—BeardOrNot.co and Brickit—tied for first place Sunday during Startup Weekend Des Moines’ final pitches. Seven teams competed in the weekend-long competition with more than…
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Watch pitches from Startup Weekend Des Moines live at 5 p.m.
Tune in to Startup Weekend Des Moines this evening at 5 p.m. and join in the action as the competition’s seven teams give their final pitches. Judges for this evening’s pitches include Erin Rollenhagen of Entrepreneurial Technologies, Caleris CEO Sheldon Ohringer and Joel Marks, a software engineer at Webfilings. Here’s the schedule for the final evening of the sixth Startup…
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Meet the seven teams of the sixth Startup Weekend Des Moines
The sixth Startup Weekend Des Moines kicked off Friday evening with more than 30 ideas pitched and seven teams formed for the 54-hour competition. Throughout the weekend each of the seven teams worked at StartupCity Des Moines to build their product in anticipation of the final presentations, which begin at 5 p.m. today ,,,
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Des Moines, Kansas City Startup Weekends scheduled for Nov. 15 to 17
With the fourth-annual Global Startup Battle just around the corner, two Silicon Prairie communities—Des Moines and Kansas City—have announced Startup Weekends to be held from Nov. 15 to 17. Entrepreneurs from more than 200 Startup Weekends around the world will …
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Grinnell English grad wins coding lessons, lands job as developer
For Paloma Velazquez, writing HTML is a pretty big shift from her previous writing experience. Last May she graduated from Grinnell College with degrees in English and political science. At the time, she was working as a communications coordinator for BitMethod with their app, Change. But after winning a two-year scholarship for Treehouse—a web development…
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Startup Battle voting begins today, includes Des Moines and KC teams
GlamSnap and Wazoo both earned acclaim on a local level over the weekend, winning Startup Weekend Des Moines and Startup Weekend Kansas City, respectively. Now the Silicon Prairie’s two newest Startup Weekend winners are taking their act to a global …
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Fashion mobile app GlamSnap wins Startup Weekend Des Moines
GlamSnap, a mobile app that aims to help women with clothing purchases, won Startup Weekend Des Moines Sunday at StartupCity Des Moines, the venue for the city’s fifth iteration of the event. “(The idea) comes from a long history of terrible purchases that I have made throughout my life and my friends have called me…