Silicon Prairie News

SERIES

Weekly Wrap Up Show with guest Tom Chapman

1475_7580e448ec_small November 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Mentioned this week: - Filmed live on Ustream from the Silicon Prairie News office - Guest: Tom Chapman, director of entrepreneurship and innovation, Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce - Tom & Dusty recap a recent trip to San Francisco to meet with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley - Dwolla closes $1M Series A round - Nebraska Angels provide $500k seed funding to MRail - Archrival acquired by Dachis Group - Building the Foundary series: Part I & Part II - disRUPT special series… read more

NEWS

Celebrate the first-ever National Entrepreneurs’ Day…today!

1471_0b083c7994_small November 19, 2010 by John T. Meyer

From the Silicon Prairie to the Silicon Valley and all around the world, today is a day for entrepreneurs to celebrate. And President Barack Obama says so! It's true, November 14th through November 20th has… read more

NEWS

After year-long program, students pitch at BioVentures 2010

1470_455881617f_small November 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha About 70 people gathered this past Wednesday evening at Creighton University to listen to pitches from students following their year-long participation in Creighton's Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. Titled BioVenture 2010, the third annual event had the student groups present their business plans and posters for the projects… read more

NEWS

Forbes ranks Sioux Falls ‘Best Small Place for Business and Careers’

1466_1acbe699b7_small November 19, 2010 by John T. Meyer

Sioux Falls Believe it or not Sioux Falls has more than just cornfields and cows. In fact, Forbes.com recently named Sioux Falls #1 "Best Small Place for Business and Careers." (Image from forbes.com.) This was the seventh consecutive year Sioux Falls has held the top spot. Forbes' annual ranking evaluates communities based on 12 factors including costs of living and business, job growth, income growth, quality of life, and cultural opportunities among others. Sioux Falls has been the only city that has ranked in the top 25 in at least eight of the… read more

PROFILES

disRUPT: FTNI helps clients streamline payments

1473_fc1be4f108_small November 19, 2010 by Steve Brewer

Omaha (Left: Financial Transmission Network Inc. CEO Kurt Matis. Photo by Marlon Wright.) Merchants offer customers many ways to pay, including checks, credit cards and online transactions. This creates customer convenience, according to Kurt Matis, but it also leads to back-office complexity for merchants and higher costs for everyone. “If a business wants to scan checks, they usually need one piece of equipment,” Matis says. “If they want ACH… read more

SERIES

Developer, Digital Strategist, Sales & more

November 18, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

We're excited to bring you our thirty-first Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Pongr in Des Moines, Blend Interactive in Sioux Falls, and Phenomblue, Digital House… read more

SERIES

disRUPT: Nanotech research is tiny, but important to IT development

1467_a8db94bf6b_small November 18, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Lincoln (Left: Christian Binek of University of Nebraska–Lincoln. Photo by Marlon Wright.) Size does matter when it comes to electronics. Consumers seem to prefer ever-smaller devices, but making things too small could lead to major technological problems in roughly 10 years. Researchers at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are working on both aspects of the size issue. The decreasing size of devices such as cell phones, mp3 players and computers… read more

NEWS

The story of PandoraFM

1465_21c923192c_small November 17, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha At last Thursday's "Pandora Listener Town Hall" in Omaha, an attendee raised his hand and asked Pandora founder Tim Westergren if his service had any future plans to open up their API (application programming interface) to allow developers to build web apps on top of Pandora and user data. The attendee, Omaha developer Gabe Kangas (left, photo from gabekangas.com), said that in Pandora's… read more

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