Silicon Prairie News

Des Moines University and college students from across the state of Iowa shuffled along Silicon Sixth — the heart of the startup community in downtown Des Moines — on April 4 to visit 28 area startups. More than 130 students registered to join the Silicon Prairie News Startup Job Crawl's second tour de Des Moines, including representation from Drake University, the University of Iowa and bus loads of students from Iowa State University, Grinnell College and Simpson … read more

Des Moines From 5-8:30 tonight, the Silicon Prairie News Startup Job Crawl will take its second loop down Silicon Sixth, the heart of the startup community in downtown Des Moines, starting at StartupCity Des Moines (317 6th Ave., 5th floor). Nearly 120 students have already signed up to meet more than 25 internet startups, web development shops and design firms from the Des Moines area. Because more than 20 of the participating startups have internships, part-time … read more

Des Moines Close to 100 students from universities all across Iowa have already registered for the Startup Job Crawl in Des Moines, the second round for the city. The event that brings together startups and students gets underway at 5 p.m. Wednesday at StartupCity Des Moines (317 6th Ave., 5th floor). In typical pub crawl form, students of all majors will break into … read more

Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it's happening in the Silicon Prairie, you'll find it here. For more, visit our events page for a calendar of upcoming events from us and others in the region. (Left: Design+Tech's guest speaker is Bill Miksich, director of design and channel integration for Urbandale database marketing firm, RMi.) … read more

Des Moines When I started my senior year, the term startup was foreign to me. It wasn’t until a few months before I started my spring internship at Silicon Prairie News that I started to get a feel for what a startup really is and the impact entrepreneurship can have on a community. Once I started going to Silicon Prairie News events, I began to see the deep-rooted … read more

Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it's happening … read more

Every Monday, look for our events post to keep you in the loop on the happenings of the week. From meetups and conferences to workshops and pitch sessions, if it's happening in the Silicon Prairie, you'll find it here. … read more

Des Moines Spring semester rolls along and if you're a student, you'll soon be on the post-Spring Break prowl for a summer internship search. Join Silicon Prairie News from 5-8 p.m. April 4 for the Startup Job Crawl to help you with this search and much more. The Startup Job Crawl, will take its second set of steps in Des Moines to provide students the opportunity to visit the people behind local startups and experienced companies, see their products in action and learn about the culture of working in this startup community along "Silicon Sixth." More than 200 students and 40 companies joined us for our … read more

Omaha With upwards of 200 students and 40 companies on hand for the inaugural Silicon Prairie News Omaha Startup Job Crawl last Wednesday night at The Mastercraft, there wasn't enough time in the evening to interview every last person in attendance about the event. But that didn't discourage us from putting our reporter's hats on anyway. Throughout the night, we visited with a mix of students and company representatives to get a wide array of …  read more