April 16, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Day 2 of Startup Weekend Kansas City kicked off this morning on the heels of an energetic opening night. For starters, attendees on Friday enjoyed dinner, Boulevard beer and spectacular downtown views from the sixth floor of the bizperc office space. Co-organizer Adam Coomes served as emcee for the evening, and ice-breaking games got the group's collective startup juices flowing. Dwolla CEO Ben Milne was the featured speaker for … read more
April 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines The Greater Des Moines Partnership, an economic and community development organization serving Greater Des Moines, released its latest promotional video on YouTube. Clocking in at 1:37, the video features interviews with Dwolla co-founder and CEO Ben Milne as well as the startup's COO, Charise Flynn. In addition to Dwolla… read more
April 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: "Challenge: 25 Silicon Prairie angel investors on AngelList," "Persistence rewarded as Jonathan George gets Boxcar on track," Guest post by Jeff Morris: "'I’d pay Zaarly to hire me for a two-month contract,'" Big Omaha app preview from Andy Peters: twitter.com/andypeters, Infotec, Thinc Iowa and Big Omaha read more
April 14, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines The Technology Association of Iowa released photos today from last Thursday's 2011 Prometheus Awards, the event which honors the top companies and individuals in technology from across the state in the last year. To see this year's full list of winners, see our post: "Prometheus Awards recognize Iowa’s top tech companies." The following are select photos from TAI's official photographer, to see the full album visit technologyiowa.org. read more
April 14, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha Inspired by Android's support for voice control, Jesse Andersen wanted to take the functionality of voice commands and fuse it with a user-friendly way to take advantage of the feature. His solution: Push Actions. Push Actions is an application supported by Android OS that acts as the "voice" in the voice command process. Instead of speaking an action for the phone to perform, users type the action from their computers by visiting pushactions.com. Andersen said … read more
April 14, 2011 by Willis Jackson
Wichita A startup with ties to Wichita, Kan. received a great round of press at the close of March. Boxcar, a notification dashboard previously only found on iOS devices and the web, was released as an app for Mac. On the day of the release, March 31, Boxcar was covered by TechCrunch, Read Write Web, Business Insider and Macworld. Interested to learn about the story behind the startup, I set out to learn more about what Boxcar does. While other applications make it easier for you to check… read more
April 14, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Last November we announced that we'd be putting together the inaugural Silicon Prairie Annual Report to "serve as a recorded benchmark for our entrepreneurial ecosystem for 2010 as well as an annual measurement of our progress in the future." We undertook this project with the best of intentions, planning to tabulate analytical information on the six tenets of an entrepreneurial ecosystem as well as recognize the top individuals working on advancing those tenets. We also planned… read more
April 13, 2011 by Royce Haynes
Kansas City Picture a weekend-long event in which you could meet new people, promote your idea and take that idea to the next level in just under 54 hours. I know, the thought of taking that idea to a social event and bringing it to fruition in a weekend seems insane, but this is exactly what happens at Startup Weekend. … read more
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