February 8, 2012 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Not one but two Mikes joined us this week on PrairieCast. Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines and Mike Ferrari, co-founder of SmartyPig (now Social Money Systems) both sit in to discuss the big news that broke early on show day, Dwolla's $5M Series B raise, as well as the recent news from SmartyPig including a name change … read more
June 6, 2011 by Geoff Wood
West Des Moines SmartyPig, the West Des Moines-based online social savings company that bills itself as a "free online piggy bank," was … read more
February 9, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Our guests yesterday were Michael Ferrari of SmartyPig and Alexander Grgurich of Foundry Coworking and TEDxDesMoines. Topics discussed: - Lodo launches add-on to leverage info captured by OurCashFlow - DSM Daily prepares to serve up only locally-owned daily deals - Wade Arnold and T8 Webware: From dorm room to board room - SXSW 2011 preparations kick off - Dwolla hires… read more
February 8, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines (Ferrari left, photo by Daphne Borowski Photography via Flickr, Grgurich right, photo from twitter.com/alexanderdsm.) Join us here live at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 24 of PrairieCast. Our guests will be Michael Ferrari of SmartyPig and Alexander Grgurich of Foundry Coworking and TEDxDesMoines. Discussion topics will include Lodo Software, DSM Daily… read more
February 7, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, February 8th at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 24 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We'll be joined by guests Michael Ferrari of SmartyPig and Alexander Grgurich of Foundry Coworking and TEDxDesMoines. Discussion topics will include Lodo Software, DSM Daily, T8 Webware and more. PrairieCast is a live podcast… read more
January 11, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines (Photo by Finovate Conferences via Flickr) For our article last week covering the launch of SmartyPig's iPhone app, I asked SmartyPig co-founder Michael Ferrari five questions via email. His answers to the first four made it in our post, "SmartyPig just got smarter, now offering iPhone app," but I held out his answer to the last, a simple "Anything else to add?" questions, for a separate post. read more
January 5, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines As of this morning, the social component of the online goal-based savings startup SmartyPig just got better. Now, when on the go, users can open the SmartyPig iPhone app to update their Facebook friends and Twitter followers about their goals. This and a set of other features make up the free SmartyPig iPhone app, the company's foray into the mobile space. "As people evaluate SmartyPig for the first time, having a solid mobile app that provides a ton of functionality is a definite plus," said SmartyPig co-founder and COO Mike Ferrari in an email interview yesterday. "Mobile accessibility is key to any online financial… read more
October 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Just over two weeks ago, Des Monies social banking startup SmartyPig unveiled PhilanthoPig, a product created to help nonprofits boost their fundraising efforts. Since that time, the PhilanthroPig website, philanthropig.com, went live with an informational splash page (above) and the company earned some ink in the Des Moines Register. "We are very excited about the launch of PhilanthroPig both… read more
October 5, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Lauren Tucker 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… read more
October 4, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
At today's Finovate conference in New York, SmartyPig co-founder and COO Michael Ferrari (left, photo by Finovate Conferences via Flickr) took the stage to announce the Des Moines-based startup's newest product, PhilanthroPig, a custom fundraising site. According to a company press release, the product will launch in closed beta next month with a University of Texas alumni fundraising network, 1883 Council. read more