January 31, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Kansas City Some exciting news released from the White House this morning around President Obama's goal to stimulate economic growth and create new jobs. Today, the President announced the launch of the Startup America Partnership which will be chaired by… read more
January 31, 2011 by Willis Jackson
Kansas City Nicholson Kovac, a Kansas City-based integrated marketing communications agency, is running a contest called The Last Plan Standing to find an outstanding entrepreneur in the U.S. and give them a marketing boost worth up to $100k. Now, if you aren’t sure that you need $100k of marketing help, think about the relationships you build with different service providers over the course of a business… read more
January 31, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Another solid week of events is upon us on the Silicon Prairie, kicking off on Tuesday afternoon with a free seminar from the folks behind BitMethod (postponed – see below).* No events in Kansas City this week, at least not on our radar, but events happening in Des Moines… read more
January 30, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
This week's video features David Karp, founder of Tumblr, in interview he conducted this week with Chris Dixon for the TechCrunch TV show "Founder Stories." Tumblr is growing at an unbelievable pace over the last four to five months. In Karp's words, “We are growing by a quarter billion impressions every week." Last week, Tumblr did… 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
January 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: - Filmed live on Ustream from the Silicon Prairie News office - Guest Matt Wynn, a watchdog reporter for the Omaha World-Herald who we interviewed this past December for his involvement in DataOmaha.com, joined us to talk about a new meetup group he's kicking off on February 16th, Hacks/Hackers Heartland - Cornstalks featuring John Gustafson, Prairie Ventures - Cornstalks looks to raise its profile, add ‘Demo Nights’ - Dundee Venture Capital participates in… read more
January 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Matt Wynn, a watchdog reporter for the Omaha World-Herald who we interviewed this past December for his involvement in DataOmaha.com, will be joining us on today's Weekly Wrap Up Show. While we'll likely touch on his work at the World-Herald, we'll be focusing on a new meetup group he's launching this coming month, Hacks/Hackers Heartland. This group, which has a presence in other cities (see: hackshackers.com), has a pretty simple goal: bring journalists and technologists together. Of course, this goal is exciting to us and later today you'll see a guest post from Wynn which talks more about it. Going foward, we'll also be including it on our events page… read more
January 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City As we wrote about earlier this morning, we'll begin to officially cover the news items coming out of Kansas City in a few weeks, but leading up to… read more
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