July 27, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by hennasabel 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. read more
June 28, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Highlights from last month's inaugural TEDxDesMoines event are available online. TEDx is a local series of talks that mirrors the format and branding of the larger TED event in California. TEDx events are held across the globe and Des Moines' iteration took place on May 16 at the State of Iowa Historical Building. Mike Draper (left), founder of… read more
Des Moines Last Friday, Des Moines’ creative class success story, SMASH, announced that they were changing names and dividing their clothing store from the web design and screen printing business. The store is now RAYGUN (Twitter: RAYGUNshirts) and the custom ... read more
Des Moines The 2009 edition of Highlight Midwest ended with a set of keynote presentations from leaders of innovative companies in each of the event’s three core cities: Kansas City, Des Moines and Omaha. These keynotes were my "highlight" of ... read more
Des Moines While attending Highlight Midwest last Friday, I had the chance to view a few rooms of the Des Moines Social Club, the venue for the event, but I didn't hear too much about the organization itself. I'm glad ... read more
Des Moines It took moving out east for Mike Draper to realize the benefits of the local business climate for entrepreneurs in Des Moines. Mike's endeavor, SMASH, is part retail T-shirt merchandiser, part screen printer and part web designer. Mike ... read more