February 18, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: - Big thanks to Robert Murphy, @ramhatter on Twitter, for figuring out that we're on episode #76 - Happy Birthday Dusty! - "Who’s going to SXSW? (Let us know in the comments!)" - "Big Omaha 2011 site launches!" - Credit to Malone & Company for the "Big Omaha" video and Tres Johnson of Lowercase Sounds - "Social Dev Camp Des Moines this Saturday, 11 am - 5 pm" - "Graphic.ly… read more
February 18, 2011 by Chris G. Shaw
Kansas City As the managing partner of Think Big Partners, Think Big Kansas City and bizperc, Herb Sih has been busy over the last three years (Left, photo from thinkbigpartners.com). Most recently, Think Big announced a collaboration with Angel Capital Group, a Tennessee-based investment group, to launch 4-6 companies in an incubator right here in Kansas City. The Think Big KC incubator is based on the Y Combinator/TechStars proof-of-concept model. Founders apply with a business plan and receive a little funding, along with some legal and marketing help, and 90 days of… read more
February 18, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds an educational luncheon for entrepreneurs across Central Iowa. Called the "Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series," each luncheon features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that's applicable to people working on building high growth and scalable businesses. read more
February 18, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Anyone else try to utlize Dwolla during the workday yesterday? We did, and it was down. And today, it's still down. Last night I shot Dwolla CEO Ben Milne a text to learn the latest and he promptly replied it was a server issue and that they were working through it. Just a few moments ago, he made me aware… read more
We're excited to bring you our 44th Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from: MindMixer, Deal Garden, and Phenomblue in Omaha, Nebraska Global… read more
February 17, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha We have a special project we're cooking up in the Silicon Prairie News office to release in the coming weeks as South by Southwest Interactive approaches. As a hint, it'll be a page to connect attendees heading down from the Silicon Prairie region as well as a place to follow the action of Silicon Prairie attendees and panelists. Rumor has it there will be a record number of individuals making the trip from the Silicon Prairie, and I'm pretty sure we'll… read more
February 17, 2011 by Kate Ellingson
Lincoln During a recent interview with Green Bein' president & CEO Collin Caneva – see: Kid Command adds 56k users in Jan., Aaron Davis joins Green Bein’ team" – I saw that he is not only motivated by his business, but also by his team at Green Bein’. I wanted to learn more about their culture so I stopped by the Green Bein' office to capture a video… read more
February 16, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines On Monday we posted a story about Hatchlings running a charity campaign called "You Play, We Pay." Hatchlings, which can be described as a virtual egg hunt inside of Facebook and other online apps, plans to give a total of $60,000 to three causes. In our story, Hatchlings founder Brad Dwyer told us… 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.
