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Quick Pitch: bHeroic helps volunteers ‘earn their tights’ (Video)
The Bat-Signal is out across the state of Iowa for all types of heroes, and bHeroic is the startup behind the shining light. Born not in the streets of Gotham City but in the Des Moines community at Startup Weekend 2011, bHeroic, also known as Unleash Heroes, is a free social game that encourages ordinary…
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Startup Weekend Des Moines: Reflections of a past participant
As someone who participated in the first Startup Weekend Des Moines (see my Silicon Prairie News guest post at the time: “Startup Weekend Des Moines is a success”) back in July 2009 and had the chance to spend several hours at this past weekend’s event…
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Prairie Moves: Josh Dreyer, Jeff Valder, Jonathan Sharp & More
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…
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Startup Weekend Des Moines: The winner is ‘Unleash Heroes’
Ten startups, each 54 hours old, gave their final pitch tonight to a panel of judges and “Unleash Heroes” emerged as the winner of Startup Weekend Des Moines. The Unleash Heroes concept is to devise a tracking and reward system of “hero points” to honor and encourage the heroic activities that people do in their…
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Startup Weekend Des Moines: Final Pitch Live Stream at 5PM CST
Startup Weekend Des Moines is entering into it’s final hours. What began with 32 ideas thrown out to the crowd of 80-some participants has now been refined to 9 final teams who will pitch tonight beginning at 5:00 PM. Judges will deliberate while dinner is served around 7:30 PM with final awards planned for 8:30…
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Startup Weekend Des Moines: Teams and Photos
The third iteration of Startup Weekend Des Moines kicked off tonight with an evening of idea generation, voting, lobbying, pizza consumption, inspiration, pitches, and hard work. Not to mention a massive roshambo tournament. The more than 100 participants, speakers, judges and mentors convened in a vacant office suite at the Greater Des Moines Partnership Building…
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Events: KC Launch Party, Dwolla Meetup, Pitch & Grow and More
The week ahead might just be the busiest week of events we’ve seen in a long while, and moreover, it’s filled with a handful of quality startup-focused events. We’re, of course, very excited about the first event on this week’s calendar, the Silicon Prairie News – Kansas City Launch Party, and we hope to see…
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Prairie Moves: Andrew Peters, The Foundary, Sojern & more
(Photo by Mark Michaelis via Flickr) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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What to expect from Startup Weekend Des Moines
(Photo by Rob Jensen via Flickr.) It’s that time again. Startup Weekend is getting ready to kick off its third event in Des Moines and it’s only a little over three weeks away. I personally have attended one of these events, and to be completely honest, at no fault of anyone but myself, I didn’t…
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Startup Weekend Des Moines: March 4-6, early bird prices until Feb. 12
Startup Weekend, a 54-hour event that challenges attendees to present ideas, form teams, plan, implement, and then present their just-born startup in one weekend, will be taking place in Des Moines the first…