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Prairie Moves: Abby Rowling, Lodo Software, FrontFlip and more

3670_763c33405b_small February 24, 2012 by Danny Schreiber

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 you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com. … read more

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‘Hacker spirit’ pushes Shift’s Sinclair to keep tinkering, building

3594_33823b722b_small February 8, 2012 by Michael Stacy

West Des Moines If it’s Friday and it’s lunchtime and Ben Sinclair isn’t at Performance Marketing’s West Des Moines offices, it’s a pretty safe bet where he is instead. He’s making a beeline to the buffet line. Mind you, he’s not there for the fare — Sinclair gives the food a review that’s lukewarm at best — but to satisfy another appetite. “The food isn’t the best,” Sinclair said. “But it’s mainly an excuse to get together and talk about radio stuff.” Sinclair, 33, is a developer of Web … read more

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Cornstalks Demo Night: Wrapping it all up (Video)

2059_ca2b0e3012_small April 11, 2011 by Michael Stacy

Omaha As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we've… read more

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Cornstalks Demo Night: Uppward demo by Ben Sinclair (Video)

2037_b934afbc93_small April 5, 2011 by Brittany Mascio

Omaha Ben Sinclair, co-founder of Uppward, presented the social travel application that makes it easier for travelers to chat, make connections and get value from in-flight conversations. The application allows users to add and check-in to specific flights and connect with fellow travelers sitting beyond their immediate row. “There is at least one person on a flight you should know,” Sinclair said on behalf of Uppward. “There’s got to be other people you… read more

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PrairieCast with guests Levi Rosol & Ben Sinclair (Video)

1712_63c6ab3732_small January 26, 2011 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, featuring round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News were joined today by Ben Sinclair of Shift and Uppward and Levi Rosol of ScoreYard, who is also a recent addition to the contributor team to Silicon Prairie News.  read more

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PrairieCast: 1:30 pm CST with guests Ben Sinclair & Levi Rosol

1709_5ce2201eef_small January 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, featuring round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News are joined today by Ben Sinclair of Shift and Uppward and Levi Rosol of ScoreYard, who is also a recent addition to the contributor team to Silicon Prairie News. read more

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PrairieCast: Tomorrow at 1:30 pm with guests Ben Sinclair & Levi Rosol

1703_efdc24255b_small January 24, 2011 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, at 1:30 p.m. for Episode 22 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. Our guests this week will be Ben Sinclair of Shift and Uppward and Levi Rosol of ScoreYard, who is also a recent addition to the contributor team to Silicon Prairie News. PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, that features round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl… read more

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Chris Burns, Nate Becker & Ben Sinclair share the SHift story

1596_86d4292ee6_small December 22, 2010 by Christopher New

West Des Moines Most don’t have it easy when they launch their startups. Companies will universally go through the initial process of finding office space, or converting a basement into workspace, building a client list, or finding vendors and consultants for day-to-day needs. SHift, a web and mobile application development firm founded this past February by Ben Sinclair, Nate Becker and Chris Burns, had a leg up… read more

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On TechCrunch: Planely - On the Silicon Prairie: Uppward

1516_661f1b5a02_small December 6, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines In preparation for her upcoming trip to the LeWeb conference this week, TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis tried out the service of one of the conference's partners, Planely, a web-based app designed to help you connect with other passengers on your flight. After signing up and entering her flight details, a match was made. She learned that another LeWeb attendee was going to be on the same flight (screenshot above). Tsotsis shared her success story on TechCrunch… read more

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Uppward iPhone app released in the App Store

1493_210078dbe1_small November 24, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines Image from the iTunes app store. The four person crew behind Uppward announced today that their mobile application aimed at connecting and rewarding air travelers had been approved by Apple and released in the iTunes App Store. James Eliason, Nathan ... read more