As a student at Iowa State University in the early 2000′s I used a Craigslist-esque classifieds site to buy and sell many things from computer monitors to textbooks. Also a student at ISU at the time, Aayush Phumbhra saw a national market for this platform to sell textbooks.
He bought in and took the company from a basement in Ames, IA to a venture backed $100 million textbook rental company. Geoff and I got the chance to talk to him about his story in episode 18 of Prairiecast.
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In the latest PrairieCast Geoff and I got the chance to interview Annie Sorenson who quit her job to follow her passion – which is interestingly similar to how I got started on 48Web…
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A couple weeks ago on PrairieCast, Geoff and I got the chance to visit with Andy Stoll before he departed on The World Tri with Des Moines’ adventurer and lawyer Charlie Wittmack.
Social Entrepreneurship With Guest Andy Stoll
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For last week’s Prairiecast (our podcast about midwest entrepreneurs) we got the opportunity to interview serial entrepreneur Brian Kaldenberg about several profitable niche businesses that he’s started over the years. We cover his NCAA Football video game rosters business, his proofreading service business, and his consulting company – among other things.
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Last year at Big Omaha I got the opportunity to interview Gary Vaynerchuk during the live broadcast of our Big Omaha episode…
(Sorry for the video quality, it was recorded on my iSight!)
Are you going to Big Omaha this week? I’ll see you there! Want to know why you should go? Check out our latest PrairieCast!
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On the 12th prairiecast (our podcast about entrepreneurs in Iowa) Geoff Wood and I got the opportunity to talk to Brad Dwyer who founded social gaming startup Hatchlings while still a student at Iowa State University (go clones!).
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Our 11th episode of PrairieCast featured guest Alexander Grgurich of Foundry Coworking to talk about TEDx Des Moines.
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In the tenth episode of PrairieCast (a podcast about entrepreneurs in Iowa) we talk about a great success story from Des Moines in SmartyPig.
In this podcast Geoff Wood and I talk to SmartyPig co-founder Mike Ferrari about starting and growing the company.
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In the latest PrairieCast we interview Mike Colwell about BIZ – Biz Innovation Zone about startups and entrepreneurship in Des Moines, IA.
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My internet business podcast and mastermind partner Doug Mitchell has recently released an internet marketing case study on his recent work with Boesen The Florist here in Des Moines, IA.
Earlier this week Mike Sansone joined us for a Lunchtime Mastermind session to discuss the case study… Here is the audio!
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