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Amy Brehm: Owner, Java Joe’s CoffeeHouse


Amy Brehm’s entrepreneurial aspirations began long before she purchased a popular coffeehouse in the Court Avenue Entertainment District.

Growing up in Dubuque, Brehm watched as her father operated a successful typesetting company, where she went …

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Levi Rosol: Co-founder, ScoreYard


Some people might view giving up a steady paycheck to launch a Web technology company as fairly risky. From Levi Rosol’s perspective, having been laid off twice – once from one of the world’s largest …

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Emma Peterson: CEO, Tikly Co.


What could possess a 21-year-old recent college graduate to leave the security of a full-time job to start her own company?

Well, when Dwolla Corp. founder Ben Milne is on your side, along with people …

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Drawn to Google+

Google Inc.’s new social networking service, Google+, reached about 25 million visitors in less than a month, outpacing Facebook Inc. and MySpace in their early days, according to Wedbush Securities, citing ComScore Inc. (SCOR) data, …

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Internet speeds getting close to advertised rates

Broadband speeds are now significantly closer to what Internet service providers advertise than they were in 2009, according to a study to be released today by U.S. communications regulators, Reuters reported. Cable, DSL and fiber-to-the-home …

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Tough nuts to hack

The National Security Agency (NSA) has a challenge for hackers who think they’re hot stuff: prove it by working on the “hardest problems on Earth.”

Computer hacker skills are in great demand in the U.S. …

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Frank Russell: Founder, Prositions Inc.

For Frank Russell, the earliest days of a start-up company are always the most exciting.

These are heady days for Russell – once again.

Not quite a year ago, the serial entrepreneur launched Prositions Inc., …

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A spirited look at Iowa’s brightest thinkers

Last year we chose the late sculptor Barry Flanagan’s sculpture “Thinker on a Rock,” which resides in the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park, to be the symbol for our series on Iowa’s entrepreneurs. The …

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Google acquires patents amid threats of litigation

Google Inc. acquired a number of patents this month from International Business Machines Corp. in an effort to boost its portfolio amid growing threats of intellectual property lawsuits, Bloomberg reported.

Google, which in 2008 entered …

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VineMe prepares for test from Google


A Des Moines photo-sharing website is confident in its product, even though Google Inc. is developing a similar concept.

VineMe, an online site founded by Josh Fleming, Tony Muse and Chris Taulborg with consulting from …