We're excited to bring you our 49th Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Nebraska Global / Don't Panic Labs in Lincoln and Anderson Partners, Bemis Center… read more
March 31, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City By his own admission — if one sentence in a Twitter bio qualifies as admissable evidence — Adam Coomes has "too much fun." With his latest side project, Coomes is trying to help other people do the same. Coomes, the Kansas City-based co-founBy his own admission — if one sentence in a Twitter bio qualifies as admissable evidence — Adam Coomes has "too much fun." With his latest side project… read more
March 31, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Des Moines For almost one year now Josh Fleming, Tony Muse and Chris Taulborg have been hard at work building Des Moines' newest startup, VineMe. VineMe is billed as a "social platform that allows the world to crowdsource content by time, tags, places and people." read more
March 30, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City The speed of startup progress in one of the Silicon Prairie's hubs is about to become significantly swifter. Google announced today that it will build its ultra high-speed … read more
March 30, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Give Hollrback this: the Omaha-based startup seems to have a flair for the dramatic. For the second time in two rounds of TechStars' Startup Madness tournament, Hollrback advanced with a win by an oh-so-slim margin. With the narrow victory, Hollrback advanced … read more
March 30, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha The time has come to make a very, very special announcement. Tickets for Big Omaha 2011 are now…live! We're extremely excited to bring you another amazing Big Omaha with many special additions for 2011. This year we've added a half-day of speakers, bringing the total to two days of some of the nation's best and most innovative entrepreneurs on stage… read more
March 30, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines On this week's PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Christian Gurney of Torsion Mobile and Christopher New of Event1Video and a contributor to Silicon Prairie News. Discussed this week: Archrival's presentation at the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, TechStars Startup Madness tournament, SmartyPig CEO on working for a Silicon Prairie-based… read more
March 29, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City A West Coast-based venture capital firm with operations in San Francisco and Seattle has added a Silicon Prairie location to its stable. Indie Ventures, which focuses on funding and business development for digital media … read more



