Weekly Recap: Nobl, TechCrunch love, Bob Dorf on Iowa City and more

Big Omaha speaker and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams stars in a short YouTube video with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman.  Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read over the last week. Iowa Just over a month after the inaugural Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids, We…

Big Omaha speaker and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams stars in a short YouTube video with University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Harvey Perlman. 

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

Iowa

  • Just over a month after the inaugural Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids, We Create Here’s Sarah Binder catches up with the event’s first-place finisher, Major Trading Cards. Currently the five-person team is looking at accelerator programs—including Lincoln’s NMotion and the Iowa Startup Accelerator. — We Create Here
  • After a number of presentations in Iowa City in late March, “The Startup Owner’s Manual” co-author Bob Dorf shares his thoughts on the entrepreneurial community in Iowa, particularly in the Creative Corridor. — LinkedIn
  • Mark your calendar: At noon on April 15 StartupCity Des Moines will hold its second public town hall meeting to discuss what the community needs and would like to see after StartupCity’s funding runs out at the end of September. — StartupCity Des Moines Blog 

Kansas City

  • ABPathfinder brings Autism awareness efforts to its local community. —ABPathfinder 
  • Stackify’s cloud-based application monitoring and troubleshooting tools has a new release. — Stackify 
  • Kansas City Business Roundtable tours the Kansas City Startup Village. — KCSV
  • The Village also established a committee to look at the future of the Village. — KCSV  
  • KC startup ShotTracker got some TechCrunch love over the weekend. — TechCrunch 

Nebraska 

  • Doane College covers alum Raymonn Adams and his startup, Lockr. — Doane
  • Bryan Health shares a video on how Nobl has improved its efficenicy. — Bryan Health 
  • Big Omaha speaker, Nebraska native and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams stars in an odd social media campaign with UNL’s Chancellor Harvey Perlman. — UNL 
  • Boutique Window shares stories of the benefits of custom pages. — Boutique Window 

SPN’s most-read stories of last week

  1. How Kansas City scored the biggest technological coup of the century” by Megan Bannister & Jordan Pascale (3/31/14)
  2. Three years after announcement, Kansas City is still figuring out Fiber” by Megan Bannister & Jordan Pascale (4/1/14)
  3. “Is Uber coming to Omaha?” by Jordan Pascale (4/4/14)
  4. HLT closes $1.5M seed round, strives to release 24 new apps this year” by Megan Bannister (2/11/14)
  5. Big Omaha’s Kevin Rose has turned his Digg roots into investment success” by Joey Wolfe (3/31/14)

We love to hear what you’re up to! Read something interesting about entrepreneurship or startups in the Midwest? Send it our way at editor@siliconprairienews.com


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