June 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Over lunch at last Wednesday's Regional Energy Innovation Summit, attendees were treated to a presentation from Ted Zoller, Ph.D., executive director of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Zoller, who's also an adjunct professor at UNC, has been an entrepreneur for most of his life. Now, it's his mission to help entrepreneurs. read more
June 22, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week on PrairieCast our guest is Iowa City-based serial entrepreneur Brian Kaldenberg (above). Brian has founded several companies including Gamerosters.com (which provides NCAA football video game rosters to more than 20,000 customer annually), ProofreadingPal (a proofreading service for the academic and business sectors), and… read more
June 21, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha If I had to imagine what participation in a Washington think tank would be like, I'd recollect my experience at last Wednesday's Regional Energy Innovation Summit at the Gallup Organization’s Omaha campus, a follow up of the Energy Innovation Summit that took place May 7 at the White House. Thanks to a partnership between Gallup, the White House… read more
June 21, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Josh Mishell via Flickr.) Do you have a research paper, best practice, or reflection on business that you've been looking to share with the world? More specifically, do you have a message that would make a positive… read more
June 20, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha When Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, remarks that something is "absolutely fascinating," that something has my attention. So was the case when I read a tweet of Schmidt's on May 30: @ericschmidt: The science of motivation; explained on a whiteboard, on youtube. Absolutely fascinating http://bit.ly/ckwckZ The link takes you to the video below from Daniel… read more
With a busy summer travel schedule, I haven't been keeping up on my Google Reader as much as I used to. However, I should be back into the swing of things, so look to a more regular posting schedule of the Weekly Startup Links. read more
We're excited to bring you our sixteenth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Living Social, Princess Lasertron, HowMuchWhere.com, and Oriental Trading, all located in Omaha. If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing… read more
June 18, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location at Rosenblatt Stadium for the NCAA Men's Baseball College World Series * Sunday Video Series: Simon Sinek on how great leaders inspire action * Dusty's Startup Links coming back soon * Energy Innovation Summit * Meeting of the Minds * Prairie Moves * PrairieCast * CAMP * Collin Caneva talks at Lincoln YPG event * Medizzle * The story behind the Big Omaha iPhone app read more
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