GlamSnap and Wazoo both earned acclaim on a local level over the weekend, winning Startup Weekend Des Moines and Startup Weekend Kansas City, respectively. Now the Silicon Prairie's two newest Startup Weekend winners are taking their act to a global … read more

Des Moines Startup Weekend Des Moines competitors crossed the halfway point today in the sprint to build out an idea in less than 48 hours. Around 60 individuals formed 10 teams Friday evening at StartupCity Des Moines. Those teams have until 5 p.m. Sunday to complete their work, at which time the final pitches begin and a winner will be named. The pitch event is open to the public (unfortunately, we will not have a live stream of the event). … read more

Des Moines Iowa's capital city will host its second Startup Weekend of 2012 Nov. 16-18. Startup Weekend Des Moines, a weekend-long education in launching a high-growth business, will take place once again at StartupCity Des Moines (317 6th Ave.). During the event, teams devote a weekend to building the foundation of a business. It begins Friday evening with participants coming together and delivering minute-long pitches of ideas for startups. Attendees then spend Saturday and Sunday working in teams to … read more

Des Moines To wrap up our coverage of Startup Weekend Des Moines, we've edited down our video of Sunday's three-hour final pitch session to an hour and fifteen minutes, presenting all 16 team pitches and the award ceremony to top it off. Here are winners of the weekend, as selected by judges Ben Milne of Dwolla, Mike Colwell of Business Innovation Zone, Milt Milloy of Springboard Consulting & Capital, and Tej Dhawan and Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines on the criteria … read more

Des Moines During the course of 54 hours, more than 100 developers, designers and business people congregated in StartupCity Des Moines for a weekend of innovation and creation. They came, they pitched, they built — and on Sunday night they pitched again. The judges deliberated over the 16 startups of Startup Weekend Des Moines, and three were crowned the winners: doodle cloud. An iPhone and iPad app that allows children to snap a photo of a cloud, draw and decorate it with stickers, then send … read more

Des Moines The fourth Startup Weekend Des Moines kicked off on Friday night at Startup City Des Moines and by Saturday all work had been focused on fifteen projects. Meet the teams behind them here: 1. NoMoMeeting Who: Matt Heying, project leader; Beau Lyddon, developer; Nick Joyce, developer. What: NoMoMeeting helps developers stay in the zone by eliminating daily status meetings. By aggregating a team’s activities into one group chat, NoMoMeeting lets … 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 … read more