-
The best outcomes of Thinc Iowa are the unexpected ones
It’s hard to believe, but we’re just three weeks out from our second annual Thinc Iowa conference. Our team is heads down, working hard to execute the small details that go into putting on our Silicon Prairie Series events. We do our best to make sure everything fits into the overall experience: from the parties…
-
Fast Company honors faces familiar to the Silicon Prairie community
We’re thrilled to see Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” list released on Monday. This year’s list features four faces familiar to the Silicon Prairie community as introduced to us through Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa over the last year. …
-
A belated Thinc Iowa thank you to Microsoft BizSpark
We are sending out a special Thinc Iowa thank you to the amazing team at Microsoft BizSpark for their support of this year’s event, as well as their continued support of our work at Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News. Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access…
-
A Thinc Iowa thank you to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
We want to extend a warm Thinc Iowa and Silicon Prairie News thank you to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for sponsoring the inaugural Thinc Iowa! The Kauffman Foundation has been one of our closest supporters, and we were thrilled to have them involved in this year’s event around a topic we feel is important…
-
Guest Post: Answering Scott Case’s challenge to the Silicon Prairie
At Thinc Iowa in Des Moines last month, Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and founding CTO of priceline.com, described the mission of the Startup America Partnership. Initiated by the White House but operating as an independent, private-sector entity, the Startup America Partnership is dedicated to growing more resources for entrepreneurs in the…
-
A Thinc Iowa 2011 media roundup
As we continue debriefing from the first Thinc Iowa, we are humbled by the support of our attendees and compelled to continue the dialogue started at the conference on Oct. 21. We have collected a list from various media outlets that covered the conference and that will help the conversation about Thinc Iowa remain dynamic…
-
Thank you to the Principal Financial Group
We were very excited to welcome the Principal Financial Group on board as a premier sponsor of our inaugural Thinc Iowa. We had the Principal in mind immediately when we decided on a theme of “the common ground between startups and corporations,” as there is no more visible symbol of established corporations in Iowa than…
-
Thinc Iowa installment offers chance for Fresk to flex Kinect muscle
When Stefan Hansen and his brother Thomas were asked to create an interactive display for last month’s Thinc Iowa conference, the brothers didn’t just — ahem — thinc about it; they let their imaginations run wild. Stefan, 26 and Thomas, 28, who together form Fresk Interactive, used the conference as a welcome opportunity to tinker…
-
‘Staches and ties: The 2011 Thinc Iowa photo booth pics arise
Just in time to mark the start of No Shave November, we thought we’d tie up some loose ends from our Oct. 21 Thinc Iowa conference. But first, we mustache a very important question. What are your favorite pictures (and props) from the Thinc Iowa photo booth photo shoot? As we begin to fully reflect…
-
Congratulations to our inaugural Thinc Iowa Startup Circle
In Monday’s post recognizing Thinc Iowa sponsors, one very important group was held back in anticipation of this post, a big thank you to the nine companies of our inaugural Startup Circle. The Startup Circle idea actually came from another sponsor who suggested it as a means to involve some of the early-stage companies in…