June 16, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Iowa City This week on PrairieCast, Josh Cramer, founder of Iowa City-based Cramer Dev, talked about his company's recent social experiment, "The Sweet Hat Club." According to Cramer, The Sweet Hat Club idea was conceived by Colin Curtin, one of Cramer Dev's software engineers, who mentioned over the company chat, "Hey, I'm starting a hat club … read more
June 16, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha First, for those not familiar with the obscure term, according to Wikipedia, scrobbling is the act of "publishing one's music-listening habits via software." This software, one of the most popular ones being Last.fm … read more
June 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City The Zaarly infographic below, which was first revealed in yesterday's TechCrunch article covering the startup's milestone of $1 million in jobs posted, contains quite a few references to Silicon Prairie cities or events. Starting from the top, here's the run-down of those references: The inforgraphic itself was created by the team at 9 Clouds, a firm co-founded by one of our Silicon Prairie News contributors, John T. Meyer, Omaha and Kansas … read more
June 15, 2011 by Michael Stacy
The Silicon Prairie, it appears, has more wannabe DJs than a Full House casting call. And recently, an abundance of those aspiring emcees have found an outlet for their spinning skills on Turntable.fm, the Next Big Thing du jour in social music sites. Turntable users, represented by avatars that resemble what Precious Moments cartoons might look like after a weeklong bender spent in a South London … read more
June 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha When covering the announcement of Tripleseat's funding this past December, TechCrunch's Sarah Lacy gave her post a eye-catching title: "Tripleseat: Building the Next OpenTable Outside the Valley System." At the time the article was published, however, Tripleseat didn't quite mirror the business model of OpenTable. While OpenTable serves consumers looking to find and make a restaurant … read more
June 15, 2011 by William Fisher
Omaha This is something I have shared a number of times over the years with entrepreneurs (and others) that find themselves in the position of leadership. It may be that you report to a board or maybe just a traditional reporting role in a business. (At the end of the day, everyone has a boss in one form or another). My mentor at FDR (First Data) told … read more
June 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Less than a week after its national rollout on May 19, Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. "Full disclosure," Arrington said at the end of the May 23 interview, "I asked you if I could invest and we're trying to work something out there. So … read more
June 15, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week on PrairieCast we were joined remotely by first time guest Josh Cramer founder of Cramer Dev of Iowa City and in-studio by returning guest Jordan Lampe, communications director for Dwolla. Articles discussed this week: "Big Omaha Video Series: Marc Eckō of Artists & Instigators," "Clickstop, founder Guenther garner regional recognition," "With … read more
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