We are excited to announce our first e-Guide for Dwolla users. This interactive guide is built only for your magical iPad device, and contains pictures, screen grabs, videos and text for your viewing pleasure. While it works best on the iPad, we are also providing a hard copy PDF, that is a little different (not as many bells and whistles), but still contains all of the pertinent information and links so that you can integrate Dwolla with your business.

Download iBooks e-Guide: Dwolla for Merchants e-Guide

Download PDF: Dwolla for Merchants PDF

Some screenshots:

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Instructions for iBook download and iTunes sync:

1. Click link above to initiate download
2. Drag into iTunes (it will show up in iBooks section)
3. Sync iPad
4. Watch, read, and interact!

Hopefully this blog entry isn’t misconstrued as a personal entry. I’m  jazzed about this event and being able to speak at it is an honor.

It’s not because I love to talk either. It’s because I get to share a new aspect of the Dwolla story, one that I’ve never had a stage to go in-depth about and elaborate on. The SPN crew is giving me a platform to do just that: rant.

Dwolla’s story isn’t unique in the start-up world. Build something unique that solves a huge problem, work hard, get some funding, work harder, expand. Rinse, repeat. What actually does make us unique is that:

• We now work with bigger companies that initially wouldn’t let us in the door.
• We were able to get a foot inside the door with visionaries in the corporate banking world and credit union space. This is what set Dwolla in real motion.
• We’re tapping into a national brain trust in the financial industry on a local level within the Silicon Prairie. I plan to spend a lot of time talking about it.
• I’ve gotten into a lot of rooms by telling the truth and just laying it out there. Most of the interesting places I’ve been I can’t check into on Foursquare, because I’m afraid of someone seeing it. I’ll probably talk about those instances.
• We have incredible mentors. Most of the things I’ve learned over the past 12 months are the results of individuals that I can’t believe pick up the phone when I call. I plan to spend a lot of time on discussing how I did that, and how you can too.
• We’re not building a feature and calling it disruptive to get press. We’re building something that is changing everything in the space and it’s the people in that space, running companies inside of it, helping us do it.
• We are based in Iowa. I’ll talk about where we really sit in comparison to San Francisco / Palo Alto / New York.
• We swing for the fences. As we get ready to take the next big step at Dwolla, I’ll elaborate on where I think we’ll land.