Weekly Recap: Bulu Box, Ferris Bueller and a 2-year anniversary

Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read over the last week…

               

I spy with my little eye: Bulu Box makes appearance in Washington Post article about subscription boxes.

Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read over the last week.

Iowa

  • Nathan Gibson’s company BidOnMyJob.com got a nod in the Des Moines Register for his involvement in i2iowa’s Pitch & Grow competition last week. — Des Moines Register
  • Aaron Horn writes about how to best engage your startup network. — Welch Avenue Daily
  • Bueller? Bueller? Bueller? It looks like everyone’s favorite movie legend just joined ClusterFlunk. — Twitter 
  • Last week Des Moines-based Torsion Mobile announced a licensing program for its mobile web platform, Mojaba. — Torsion Mobile

Kansas City

  • Venture360’s accounting services help with tax prep, payroll processing and more. — Venture360
  • Knoda has released a new feature for its app: private predictions made within social circles. — Knoda
  • 1 Million Cups celebrated two years, bringing back its original presenters. — KCBJ

Nebraska 

  • BuluBox sneaking in a photo in the Washington Post. — Paul Jarrett 
  • Warren Buffett wants to team up with Airbnb to get investors to avoid hotel price gouging for Berkshire Hathaway weekend. —Wall Street Journal 
  • Ground Fluor Pharmaceuticals, a UNL startup got a $726,000 National Science Foundation grant — University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  • Lincoln-based Nobl is one of Kansas City’s hottest startups? — Tech.co

SPN’s most read stories of last week

  1. Pulse of the Prairie: Our inaugural early stage investment report” by Fred Bauters (4/8)
  2. HLT closes 1m seed round, strives to release 24 new apps this year” by Megan Bannister (2/11)
  3. Is Uber coming to Omaha?” by Jordan Pascale (4/4)
  4. How Kansas City scored the biggest technological coup of the century” by Megan Bannister and Jordan Pascale (3/31)
  5. Hot or Cold is back and we’re giving away two tickets to Big Omaha” by Caleb Ulffers (4/10)
     
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