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  • Mojaba creator builds custom web service to ease wedding day headaches

    The team at Des Moines-based startup Torsion Mobile, a mobile solutions provider, decided marrying couples have enough to worry about on their big day…

  • Revisiting the question of who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines

    Last December, I wrote a post asking “Who’s the No. 2 startup in Des Moines?” In that post, I shared the results of an informal (and unscientific) poll that I conducted around the community to seek out which companies were the “top startups.” While Dwolla was a unanimous selection at No. 1, there was no…

  • The founder, startup culture and lessons from the Bushmen

    Startup founders establish the culture of their companies. Culture means different things to different people, but here we’re discussing the way the startup works, how team members interact, their work ethic, how they behave and how they react to outside inputs. How that culture expresses itself can be a strong asset to the startup or…

  • Prairie Portrait: Tony Leo of Torsion Mobile

    Silicon Prairie News: Give me your elevator pitch for Torsion Mobile’s Mojaba. Why are mobile-friendly sites preferable to native apps? Tony Leo: Our official one-liner is Mojaba is a mobile-web publishing platform exclusively for agencies. Basically, it’s a pretty cool piece of web-based software that allows an agency to create a mobile-optimized website without contracting…

  • BIZ Luncheon Series: Christian Gurney on product build and launch

    The Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, led by Mike Colwell, holds a series of educational luncheons, the Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series, for entrepreneurs in Central Iowa. Each event in the series features a speaker from the Des Moines community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people…

  • Startup Job Crawl edition: Internships, developers and more

    We’re excited to bring you a special 98th Opportunities on The Prairie today with opportunities from all over the region including those available from the most recent Startup Job Crawl Des Moines. …

  • Project manager, front-end developer, intern and 23 more

    We’re excited to bring you our 97th Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions using our Job Board …

  • Prairie Moves: Syncbak, Sojern, SocialVolt and more

    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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on…

  • Prairie Moves: Brian Langenfeld, AgLocal, SkyVu and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Prairie Moves: Macy Koch, Blake Pinneke, Lake Surf Co. and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (two days 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,…