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1435_4d949fdc6c_small November 11, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Des Moines At the close of last month came the close of a notable figure in the Des Moines entrepreneur and startup community: Impromptu Studio, Des Moines' first coworking space. Founded in August 2008 by Daniel Shipton, now co-founder and CEO of BitMethod, and his wife Abbie, former architect now stay-at-home mom, Impromptu Studio existed not only to house entrepreneurs and startups but to be a part of and create community amongst those individuals. In addition to the daily act of coworking with a diverse set of individuals, they accomplished this goal through… read more

1135_dd4a7b7866_small August 10, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

(Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact me at danny@siliconprairienews.com. read more

1149_f9c8e818b1_small August 9, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

This past Saturday, Brad Neuberg, the creator of coworking, tweeted the above declaration to celebrate the five-year anniversary of his original coworking site, Hat Factory. To help celebrate, we've compiled links and short descriptions of coworking sites located in Omaha, Lincoln, and Des Moines. Additionally… read more

923_f4134764f8_small May 26, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines A self-described video blogger recently premiered a somewhat unorthodox autobiographical documentary at Impromptu Studio in Des Moines. The film, 101 Days of 12 Second Videos, is an amalgamation of John Pemble’s life from late-2009 through March 20, 2010. John utilized the web-based video platform 12Seconds.tv to publish a literal… read more

922_3397030f9c_small May 24, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines TIGJam Midwest, an innovative game development event, will take place in Des Moines Friday, June 4 through Sunday, June 6. "It's called TIGJam because our group is part of the TIGSource community, which is a developer community for indie games,” said organizer Josh Larson, an independent video game developer under the brand God at play. Similar in structure to Startup Weekend, TIGJam unites… read more

852_2c2a6df0e7_small April 27, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

There's quite the variety of events headed our way in and around Omaha and Des Moines. We've included one, in particular, that is a bit outside of our regular entrepreneurial and creative event postings, but we've heard it's a very cool exhibit –BODIES…The Exhibition. Hope you can get out, enjoy the nice weather, and the spectacular events we have in our own backyards. Note: All event descriptions taken from event websites. Wednesday, April 28 – Johnny Cupcakes Suitcase Tour (Omaha) Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones St) at 8 p.m. The Cupcake Mobile… read more

690_0f4ad72059_small March 2, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines Scott Kubie, Cat Rocketship and the others behind Market Street Media Foundry (MSMF) announced today that they were evolving their vision and are now make\break. read more

607_317feec067_small January 28, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines Des Moines-based entrepreneur Daniel Shipton, CEO of BitMethod and Director of Operations at Impromptu Studio, will be a panelist on tonight's episode of The Iowa Journal on Iowa Public Television. Daniel joins a diverse group of Iowans to discuss the show's topic, What's Iowa's Future? The other panelists are former NBC News and Iowa Board of Regents president Michael Gartner, founder of the band Slipknot... read more

October 8, 2009 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines   The second annual Highlight Midwest event coming up on October 23rd is already drawing the creative class from places like Kansas City, Omaha, and beyond as well as those who call Des Moines home. Details emerged today about an ... read more

September 22, 2009 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines It's a busy season for BarCamps on The Prairie and Des Moines' event will be taking place this Saturday, Sept. 26 at Impromptu Studio (300 SW 5th Street). This year's organizer, Aaron Webb, took time out of his ... read more