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5290_3285922695_small February 12, 2013 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines StartupCity Des Moines, an early stage tech startup incubator in its second year, announced today the addition of two Des Moines startups to its group of residents. PosterZen, a web-based tool to create and order custom posters, came on board in November and PhoneBank.org … read more

5096_fbd8f2515a_small December 11, 2012 by Danny Schreiber

Kansas City "If (Iowa) can do it, we can all do it," Startup America Partnership CEO Scott Case says in a white paper released Thursday that examines the Startup American Partnership at the 18-month mark. The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which provided funding for the Partnership's launch in January 2011, published the paper, "The Start Uprising." StartupIowa, along with the other 28 startup regions, follows a new … read more

4753_3ae8537aa4_small September 27, 2012 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines One year ago, Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan were still pitching their plans for a tech startup incubator in downtown Des Moines. With stops at five public and private entities, including the Corporation for Economic Development, the City of Des Moines and the Greater Des Moines Partnership, the two secured $750,000 to launch StartupCity Des Moines in early October. Today, the incubator boasts … read more

4558_67bb3bdfab_small August 6, 2012 by Sarah Binder

Spencer Leann Jacobsen hopes establishing StartupCity Spencer, an incubator using the same name and approach of a Des Moines incubator, can put the northwest Iowa town of less than 12,000 people on the entrepreneurial map. "With the talented people that reside here … read more

4283_c0d9cd365e_small June 9, 2012 by Guest Contributor

Des Moines This week Tej Dhawan, Andy Stoll, Amanda Styron, and I trekked from Iowa to Boulder Colorado for the Startup America Partnership Regional Leaders Summit to represent StartupIowa. Over the two days, the SUAP team and our peer regions (states) were relentless in sharing best practices and programs that they have developed to build their entrepreneurial ecosystems. The Summit has had me thinking deeply about where we are in the gestation of StartupIowa and the overall ecosystem … read more

4248_cc929d33dc_small June 4, 2012 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines The Business Innovation Zone announced Sunday the formation of the Plains Angels, an independent, nonprofit consortium of angel investors that plans to make investments in the areas of technology, agriculture and manufacturing. "We want to help (accredited) investors more efficiently access high-quality deal flow," said Mike Colwell (far left), director of the Business Innovation Zone, a community-sponsored, nonprofit business … read more

4031_7bd90d9bfc_small April 26, 2012 by Guest Contributor

Des Moines Ready for a challenge? StartupIowa is daring developers, designers and data junkies to turn public data sets into something useful at its first OpenIowa event. The code-a-thon is similar to other open-data events sprouting up around the country, like the recent Hack Omaha. Similar to Startup Weekend, OpenIowa challenges attendees to launch a product in one weekend using the vast … read more

3879_184bf92774_small March 29, 2012 by Michael Stacy

Des Moines Some time has passed since we first reported on the inaugural i2iowa Investors and Innovators Forum, and in the interim lots of details have emerged about the April 12 event. i2iowa will feature a pair of keynote speakers familiar to readers of Silicon Prairie News. Christian Renaud, a principal at StartupCity Des Moines, will deliver the opening keynote, "Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Evolution." Scott Case, the CEO of … read more

3853_ca5ac61a27_small March 23, 2012 by Amy Engle

As a follow up to our recap post in February, the full video (above) of Christian Renaud's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship opening keynote is now available. Renaud, a co-founder of the technology startup incubator StartupCity Des Moines, focused his presentation on the idea of the Silicon Prairie ecosystem and the advantages of being pragmatic Midwestern entrepreneurs. … read more

3758_050d39a900_small March 9, 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 … read more

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