August 3, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Last month, the Des Moines Register ran an article titled "Why is it so hard to start a business in Iowa?" in which the writer, Lynn Hicks, asked several entrepreneurs and community members, "What can state or local officials do to help startups and create an innovative culture?" In the article, four main ideas were discussed. Things like, "create … read more
August 3, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Three weeks ago, we released the first version of Silicon Prairie Feedback List in response to a post by William Fisher that addressed the importance of giving entrepreneurs honest and direct feedback. In addition, we were looking to fill a need we saw growing this past year – a place for entrepreneurs in the Silicon Prairie to receive quality feedback. To help out where we could, we reacted with … read more
August 2, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Reminder - Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursday, 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 … read more
August 2, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha SkyVu Entertainment went to Comic-Con International July 21-24 in San Diego and came back empty-handed. Well, empty-handed in a literal sense, anyway. "We introduced our first Battle Bears toy, two new T-shirts, an exclusive comic book," SkyVu founder Ben Vu said in an email, "and we sold out of everything." But that the team from the Omaha-based animation studio couldn't seem to hang on to any of its merchandise while in San … read more
August 2, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines We'll be live today at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 49 of PrairieCast with guests Josh Fleming from Lessing-Flynn and Silicon Prairie News managing editor, Danny Schreiber (left, photos from twitter.com/joshfleming and twitter.com/dannyaway). We'll be talking with Fleming about his project, the Lessing-Flynn Battle of the Brands … read more
August 1, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Cedar Rapids When the Consumer Electronics Association held its CES On the Hill trade show in Washington, D.C. in May, Syncbak founder and CEO Jack Perry attended in hopes of spreading the word about his Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based startup. He ended up doing so to a national television audience via C-SPAN. Syncbak, which provides a platform for broadcasting live, local television on web-enabled devices … read more
August 1, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha We're in the process of rolling out a few updates to our site in the coming weeks, the first of which you'll see live today, Facebook comments. Going forward, in order to comment on Silicon Prairie News, you'll need to connect to your Facebook account, and when you … read more
August 1, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Today, we're pleased to share with the you the thirteenth video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. In the video above, Travis Kalanick, co-founder and CEO of Uber, shares his background and lessons learned from his experiences in startups, angel investing and mentoring. He walks us through his various phases, from the pirate phase, to the innovator, to the curator, to the driver … read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.
