February 15, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in today at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 25 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We'll be joined by guests Ryan Downs of Proxibid and Mike Colwell of the Business Innovation Zone. Discussion topics will include the Nebraska Angel Investment Tax Credit Act, an Ames second grader who raised $1,000 in seven days for charity: water, product launches… read more
February 15, 2011 by Royce Haynes
Westwood Red Nova Labs takes its name and mission from "luminous red nova," the label applied to a new class of stellar explosions. Just as these astronomical phenomena are thought to occur when two stars merge, Red Nova Labs set out in similar fashion in 2009 "to merge business and customers via the web." Red Nova Labs is a web think-tank that transforms ideas into profitable web products. If you’re not familiar… read more
February 15, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City As you may have read earlier today, we launched the Silicon Prairie News - Kansas City edition, officially expanding our coverage and community building efforts to the Kansas City area. In this morning's post, Jeff… read more
February 15, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Kansas City (Photo by Tim Samoff via Flickr.) Today is a monumental day for Silicon Prairie News. Two years and seven months ago, we launched Silicon Prairie News in Omaha with the focus of telling the stories of entrepreneurs and creatives we knew existed in the community but hadn't had a chance to have their great work shared with the masses. Shortly after, our focus turned to Des Moines where we saw a similar passion and energy around entrepreneurship and the startup community. With great… read more
February 14, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Brad Dwyer, founder of the popular social app Hatchlings, isn't content to concentrate solely on improving the gaming elements of his product. Instead, he recently launched a charity fundraising drive, called "You Play, We Pay," with a goal of giving away a total of $60,000 to three causes. In a recent email interview, Dwyer told me that he wanted to extend the Hatchlings platform, which can be described as a virtual egg hunt inside of Facebook and other online apps… read more
February 14, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, February 15 at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 25 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We'll be joined by guests Ryan Downs of Proxibid and Mike Colwell of the Business Innovation Zone. Discussion topics will include the Nebraska Angel Investment Tax Credit Act, an Ames second grader who raised $1,000 in seven days for charity… read more
February 14, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha It's with amazing excitement that I'm happy to announce the 2011 Big Omaha branding has been released to the public to give us just a bit of what we're in store for this year! Don't fret, when you visit the site you won't see speakers listed…yet. And no, it won't be just Dusty and I speaking this year. We are indeed lining up more dynamic speakers each day… read more
February 14, 2011 by Christopher New
Urbandale Ryan Parlee has a knack for managing several enterprises concurrently, and has a diverse resume of interests that he attends to, but he says the two keys to working that way are creating strong partnerships with trusted associates, and "knowing when to say no." He notes that his daily priority is on Flying Hippo Web Technologies, described as a "web strategies company." "One of the lessons I've learned along the way is that of focus," said Parlee. "Realizing that with what we're doing… read more
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