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Cedar Rapids’ Vault launches “100” project to track community’s growth
Earlier this summer, Cedar Rapids-based Vault Coworking and Collaboration Space launched the Vault 100 project. The mission is simple: Over the next year, Vault hopes to connect 100 entrepreneurs, produce 100 events and gain 100 members—while working toward launching 100 startups over the next few years. “We decided to launch the Vault 100 to help…
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Cedar Rapids’ Vault to partner with Geonetric for new location
Last week Vault announced that come spring 2014, its coworking and collaboration space will relocate to a new home. Just in time for the company’s second birthday celebration, the coworking space will partner with health care software company Geonetric to create a space for creatives and tech startups alike in Iowa’s Creative Corridor …
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Seed Here celebrates second birthday with Cedar Rapids’ Vault Coworking
Seed Here will celebrate its second birthday––which technically falls on Independence Day––and the “success of the East Coast of the Silicon Prairie” …
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Events: One Week KC, SPN tailgate, BIZ Luncheon, TechBrew and more
Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it’s happening in the Silicon Prairie, you’ll find it here. For more, visit our events page for a calendar of upcoming events from us and others…
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Startup Fair draws 100 exhibitors, more than 400 visitors across Iowa
Given the record temperatures on the last day of January, Tuesday evening’s Iowa Startup Fair could probably have been held outdoors at the state fairgrounds. But since meteorologists’ predictive powers are still far short of Nostradamus, the crowd at StartupCity Des Moines, Amici and other area locations would have to just crack some windows to…
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With Iowa Startup Alliance, spaces to open doors to visiting entrepreneurs
Like wildfire or something else that makes for less trite similes but spreads in equally speedy fashion, coworking spaces and incubators seem to have swept across the Silicon Prairie in recent months. From Sioux City to Cedar Rapids, from the DSM to KCMO, there is, at present, a proliferation of the places opening their doors…
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Tools of the Trade: Loosecubes makes it easy to find coworking near you
If you haven’t heard already, the coworking phenomenon is spreading across the country. Right here on Silicon Prairie News we’ve covered CAMP in Omaha, The Foundry in Des Moines, Meso in Sioux Falls and most recently Vault Coworking in Cedar Rapids. It seems if you’re an entrepreneur, why would you work anywhere else? But what…
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Vault open to Wednesday coworking, set for full-scale launch in November
Downtown Cedar Rapids is getting an office space like it has never seen before. Vault, a coworking and collaboration space located on the fifth floor of the historic Guranty Bank Building (302 3rd Ave SE), is offering free community workspace every Wednesday in August for area entrepreneurs and creatives with plans for a full business…
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Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase…