April 18, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
La Vista Videos from this past February's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship have been released by Nebraska Entrepreneur. This year's summit had an increased tech and creative presence on the speaker lineup which included, among others, our own co-founder, Dusty Davidson. To view the full event schedule, see our post: "Schedule: 2011 Nebraska… read more
April 17, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Join us around 6:30 p.m. for live-streaming of demo pitches from the eight teams at Startup Weekend Kansas City. read more
April 17, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Our editor, Michael Stacy, is both competing in and covering his first Startup Weekend at the moment and while he's currently doing the former with his team, My … read more
April 17, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Quoth great Kevin McCallister (because when isn’t a Home Alone quote at least marginally appropriate?): This is it. Don’t get scared now. Just a few hours stand between Startup Weekend Kansas City participants and their final presentations, which get underway at 6:30 p.m. here at the bizperc office space. Rest assured, “getting scared” won’t be a problem here. Teams seem far more excited than apprehensive, thanks to a busy second day of Startup Weekend on Saturday. Folks hit … read more
April 16, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Day 2 of Startup Weekend Kansas City kicked off this morning on the heels of an energetic opening night. For starters, attendees on Friday enjoyed dinner, Boulevard beer and spectacular downtown views from the sixth floor of the bizperc office space. Co-organizer Adam Coomes served as emcee for the evening, and ice-breaking games got the group's collective startup juices flowing. Dwolla CEO Ben Milne was the featured speaker for … read more
April 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines The Greater Des Moines Partnership, an economic and community development organization serving Greater Des Moines, released its latest promotional video on YouTube. Clocking in at 1:37, the video features interviews with Dwolla co-founder and CEO Ben Milne as well as the startup's COO, Charise Flynn. In addition to Dwolla… read more
April 14, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines The Technology Association of Iowa released photos today from last Thursday's 2011 Prometheus Awards, the event which honors the top companies and individuals in technology from across the state in the last year. To see this year's full list of winners, see our post: "Prometheus Awards recognize Iowa’s top tech companies." The following are select photos from TAI's official photographer, to see the full album visit technologyiowa.org. read more
April 14, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha Inspired by Android's support for voice control, Jesse Andersen wanted to take the functionality of voice commands and fuse it with a user-friendly way to take advantage of the feature. His solution: Push Actions. Push Actions is an application supported by Android OS that acts as the "voice" in the voice command process. Instead of speaking an action for the phone to perform, users type the action from their computers by visiting pushactions.com. Andersen said … read more
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