July 1, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
We're excited to bring you our 60th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions with SharePlow in Omaha, Swanson Russell in Lincoln, SHift and Catchfire Media in Des … read more
June 30, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Wichita The Nebraska Angels, a consortium of individual angel investors, have made their first substantial investment in a non-Nebraska company. Yesterday, the group announced its participation alongside Kansas and California investment groups in a $1.8 million investment in Nitride Solutions, a Wichita, Kan.-based tech company. Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, Nebraska Angels board member Jay Wilkinson told us in an … read more
June 30, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines We’ve been hinting about Thinc Iowa for over three months now and I’m excited that our team has finally given me the go-ahead to spill the beans about what we’ve been working on. On October 20-21, we’re bringing an important national conversation to Des Moines. Over that day and a half, we’ll be gathering some of our country’s greatest minds in The Temple for Performing Arts to talk about the common … read more
June 30, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha Phenomblue has expanded to Los Angeles to accommodate its needs as a growing, seven-year-old digital design agency. "We're hoping to bring the success of Omaha to the West," said Joe Olsen, Phenomblue's CEO and director of strategy. "If we can be half as successful [there], we'll be in great shape." The Los Angeles office will mesh the opportunities of a new place with the culture established … read more
June 30, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Overland Park As Beloit Solutions Group sized up the challenge of scaling in recent months, the Overland Park, Kan.-based Google Apps partner came to a realization. “We were going to have some scale issues,” Beloit co-founder Tim Lockyear said by phone Wednesday, “and some gaps that were going to be a little difficult for us to compete in the market.” Not any longer. Cloud Sherpas, another Google Apps partner based in Atlanta … read more
June 29, 2011 by Danny Schreiber & Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts … read more
June 29, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Today we're pleased to share with the you the seventh video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. Having Aneesh Chopra, US CTO, involved in this year's event was exciting, as it brought a new dimension to the individuals who have shared their ideas and insights with us over the past few years. In the video above, Robert Scoble from Rackspace opened with … read more
June 29, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
We want to take the chance to thank our amazing partners and sponsors over the last few months. We've been fortunate to have some great companies on board and are humbled for their early support of what we're building at Silicon Prairie News! read more
