February 28, 2011 by Kate Ellingson
Lincoln Nebraska’s second annual 3-2-1 Quick Pitch competition handed out five awards last Wednesday, February 23rd at Memorial Stadium’s West Stadium Club. Fifty-four students from high schools, two-year colleges and four-year universities gave it their best shot in just three minutes, delivering their “elevator pitch” to over 40 judges from the nearby business and academic community. Students' ideas ranged from software privacy online… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
The week ahead might just be the busiest week of events we've seen in a long while, and moreover, it's filled with a handful of quality startup-focused events. We're, of course, very excited about the first event on this week's calendar, the Silicon Prairie News - Kansas City Launch Party, and we hope to see many familiar and new faces at McFadden's on Tuesday night. You'll find the listing… read more
February 27, 2011 by Dusty Davidson
Thanks to Chris G. Shaw for his tweet introducing me to this week's Sunday Video. We've featured videos from Seth Godin before, and this one is just as good. Seth starts by comparing management and leadership: Management and leadership are totally different things. You think you're being a leader, but you're probably being a manager. Managers… read more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. read more
February 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Dusty and Jeff filmed the latest edition of the Weekly Wrap Up Show from the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship taking place at the Embassy Suites Omaha-La Vista Hotel & Conference Center (12520 Westport Parkway, La Vista). Find more information on the Summit in our post: "2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship - Fri., Feb. 25." read more
February 25, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the eleventh presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010. This video features the "Entrepreneur Panel" in which David Hauser of Grasshopper Group led the discussion of three entrepreneurs: Matt Galligan, co-founder of SimpleGeo, Alexa Andrzejewski, co-founder & CEO of Foodspotting and Justin Shaffer, founder of HotPotato (now with Facebook). read more
February 24, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha It's with great pleasure that I get to introduce you to the newest full-time member of the Silicon Prairie News team, Editor Michael Stacy (left, photo courtesy of Stacy). As a Kansas City, Missouri native and Creighton University graduate, Michael has strong roots in the Silicon Prairie region. Over these past three years he layed the foundation for his journalism career as a reporter for the Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader. Now, he's ready to join our team as we dive deeper into building our newsroom, drawing from what's been established by others and creating our guidebook and styleguide… read more
February 24, 2011 by John T. Meyer
Sioux Falls (Photo by TJ Nelson via Facebook.) Sioux Falls' own conference, OTA Sessions, has announced the complete speaker lineup for their April 1st event and this year's event has a special Silicon Prairie feel. That's right, our own Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, will be two of the headline speakers for the sessions. This year will be the second installment of the OTA Sessions which strives to "shatter the… 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.
