PrairieCast

PC69: The one where the sign fell off the wall

Show notes   We had a full house this week on PrairieCast with Lava Row&#39;s Nathan T. Wright and Startup City Des Moines&#39; Tej Dhawan in studio and our own Danny Schreiber on Skype.   We took a look back at both the top posts of 2011 as well as the most popular ones and gave our predictions on what will come to be in 2012.   While you&#39;re watching the show, take a quick trip over to the PrairieCast facebook page and give us a "like" at facebook.com/prairiecast.   Next week of PrairieCast: Emma Peterson of Tikly and Dhawan (back for week two!).   PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, where a group of entrepreneurs gather to discuss current issues in technology and business that relate to the startup community on the Silicon Prairie and is hosted by Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News. 

PC68: The one where we look backwards and forward

PC67: The one with ugly Christmas sweaters

PC66: The one with a live studio audience

Untitled This week we introduce three things on the show: a new sponsor (Delta Dental of Iowa), a branded pre-roll "stinger" (introduction to the show) and new lower thirds (that image at the bottom of the video with our names). PrairieCast is growing up! We discussed Dwolla&#39;s decision to cut fees on transactions less than $10, the Silicon Prairie News mention in the Steve Jobs biography, the question of the #2 startup in Des Moines, last weekend&#39;s Barcamp Des Moines, and the Kauffman Foundation&#39;s video on where entrepreneurs get their money. While you&#39;re checking out the show the show, feel free to drop over to facebook.com/prairiecast and give us a "Like." Also, we&#39;d love to have more ratings and reviews in iTunes (audio or video), even if you prefer to watch the show here on Silicon Prairie News. Can you help us out? Next week on PrairieCast: Jordan Lampe of Dwolla and Emma Peterson of Tikly (back for week two!). 

PC65: The one where the panel wears v-neck sweaters

Untitled Not one, not two, but three guests on this week&#39;s PrairieCast. When he heard that the "stop online piracy act" (SOPA) was on our discussion list for the week, BrownWinick&#39;s own Drew Larson couldn&#39;t wait to drop his knowledge of the subject on our audience. Actually, that&#39;s not true. After learning that Larson was planning a seminar to address the topic later this week, I asked him (on way late notice) to sit in with previously scheduled guests Sam DuRegger of Charming Beard Productions and Tej Dhawan of Startup City Des Moines. The five us had a good conversation going not only about SOPA but also lessons to be learned from the whiners in Silicon Valley, what to expect at this weekend&#39;s Barcamp Des Moines, updates on the Startup America Challenge (have you registered your startup, yet? Why not? It&#39;s easy) and what&#39;s next for Silicon Sixth Avenue in Des Moines.   While watching the show, feel free to drop over to facebook.com/prairiecast and give us a like. Also, give us a rating in iTunes (audio or video), even if you prefer to watch the show here on Silicon Prairie News. It&#39;s cool - we won&#39;t tell anyone.   Next week on PrairieCast: Emma Peterson of Tikly and Sam DuRegger (back for week two!). PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, where a group of entrepreneurs gather to discuss current issues in technology and business that relate to the startup community on the Silicon Prairie and is hosted by Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News. 

PC64: The one where we talk legislation & whiners

PC63 Lava Row&#39;s Nathan T. Wright and Startup City&#39;s Tej Dhawan are back for this week&#39;s PrairieCast where we talk about Des Moines&#39; Startup Job Crawl, Bo Fishback on the Cover of Entrepreneur magazine, tech blogger turnover, Ben Milne&#39;s national TV debut and the unfortunate state of health insurance for startup companies. 

PC63: The one where we mention Al Roker

 Our guests for this episode where Emma Peterson of Tikly and the Des Moines Register&#39;s Adam Belz. Our discussion centered on lots of events like Startup Weekend Kansas City and the winner Horsebot3k, the upcoming Barcamp Des Moines and tonight&#39;s Startup Job Crawl. We talked about Dwolla&#39;s recent national attention and made some guesses as to their announcements coming next month. 

PC62: The one where we talk startup dress code

Three firsts in this week's episode: Sam DuRegger of Charming Beard Productions joins us as a guest, we celebrate a guest's birthday on the show, and the same guest makes a quick exit moments later (due to what turned out to be some first time pregnancy jitters - it happens to the best of us). It was a fun show and we discussed Scott Case's Startup America Challenge to the Silicon Prairie (and Andy Stoll's subsequent challenge to Louisiana), the newly minted Iowa Startup Alliance and the good folks in Kansas City participating in Global Entrepreneurship Week with another Kansas City Startup Weekend. 

PC61: The one where Jordan makes a quick exit

 After two weeks off for Thinc Iowa (me) and a new baby (Andy) we&#39;re back with episode 60 of your favorite weekly podcast: PrairieCast! During those two weeks of "down time" we came up with some new ideas for the show and we&#39;ll be rolling them out over the next several episodes.   Guests today: Nathan T Wright of Lava Row and Jordan Lampe of Dwolla. Hosts Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News and Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web   Topics discussed: Thinc Iowa, Hudl, Silicon Sixth Avenue in Des Moines 

PC60: The one where we wonder about our Hudl t-shirts

This week on PrairieCast, Erin Ginkens from Entrepreneurial Technologies joined us in studio and Nick Seguin of the Kauffman Foundation skyped in admist the fun that is Chicago Ideas Week. We talk about several serious entrepreneurial topics and I get to drop at least one of my signature "Geoff Wood&#39;s Iowa Fun Facts".   Topics discussed Startup City Des Moines, Pinterest, Microsoft, Saatchi & Saatchi X, Thinc Iowa, Steve Jobs, Zaarly and Nebraska Global.

PC59: The one where we talk about FDR's VP, Henry A. Wallace

 Fresh off his experience launching T8 Webware&#39;s new Grip product at at Finovate, the startup&#39;s CEO Wade Arnold joined us for this week&#39;s PrairieCast to talk about the growth of his company, their produt strategy, recruiting strategy (see that devs and data scientists - T8 is hiring now!) and, as always, the top current events around the Silicon Prairie.   Topics discussed: Thinc Iowa, T8 Webware, Grip, Locusic, Jeremie Miller, Singly, Startup Weekend Iowa City, Startup Weekend Columbia, Sojern, Sporting KC 

PC58: The one where we talk every product launch but iPhone 4S

 This week on PrairieCast we turn the model on it&#39;s side! Andy and our guest Tej Dwahan of Startup City Des Moines are live in our studio in the Midland Building and I join via skype from the Kauffman Foundation&#39;s headquarters in Kansas City. Dwahan&#39;s incubator project is close to launching and he shared lots of details on what they have in store.   Additionally, we&#39;re giving away two tickets to Startup Weekend Iowa City this weekend! The person who won the live show giveaway can&#39;t make so two are still up for grabs. The first two people to leave a comment on this post will get the tickets.   Topics this week include Thinc Iowa, Call Me Meeting, TwilioCon, Zaarly, Dwolla, Ad Age Digital West, BetaBlox, T8 Webware, Finovate, Iowa Business Plan Competition 

PC57: The one where Geoff skypes in from Kauffman

 This week our guest on PrairieCast is Brian Hemesath the Des Moines-based serial entrepreneur who has founded five companies including Catchwind, VolunteerLocal and Notifyworks. Hemesath previewed his BIZ Luncheon Series presentation on lessons learned while bootstrapping his startups.   Stay tuned here at Silicon Prairie News to see video of that presentation in full soon.   Stories discussed: Startup Weekend Omaha, Your Happy Plate, H&R Block, UMKC, Gigabit Challenge, Startup City Des Moines 

PC56: The one where everybody got funded

   This week on PrairieCast our guest is David Graff, CEO and co-founder of Hudl, the Lincoln-based sports technology venture that now provides video software to more than one third of all high school sports teams in the US. Graff is one of our most anticipated guests for the show and we took advantage of his time with us to discuss everything from financing to scalability to standing on the sidelines in the NCAA National Championship football game.   We had some fun, too, discussing the size of Graff&#39;s Hudl t-shirt collection and doing our first "PrairieCast look-alike" with Graff and a certain movie star from fifteen years ago. Check it all this week on PrairieCast.   NOTE: We had some issues with the video recording this week and it looks a bit choppy and low resolution throughout. We&#39;re constantly tweaking how we produce PrairieCast and will improve on it for future episodes. 