April 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
A top-notch, day-long conference is underway in San Francisco today. Hosted by Eric Ries, the Startup Lessons Learned conference is the first event focused solely on learning how to build lean startups. And although its speaker lineup and background has tech startup theme, Ries opened up the conference with an introduction that encouraged other… read more
April 23, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Mentioned this week * Filming on location on from KANEKO & Slowdown. Or... * Startup Lessons Learned Conference is being simulcast today at BrightMix * New Opportunities on the Prairie post * Berkshire Tweetup – Saturday May 1, 3:30 p.m. at Slowdown * Big Omaha – Get your tickets now! Also, our appologies for the size of Dusty's head relative to Jeff's. We've done a number of Skype Weekly Wrap Ups, you'd think we'd have it figured out. Have a great… read more
We’re excited to bring you our eleventh Opportunities on the Prairie today, featuring listings from 8/7 Central in Des Moines and Sergeant’s in Omaha. If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing and a short description of your company. read more
April 20, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Council Bluffs Nathan T. Wright, founder of Des Moines-based Lava Row, recently emceed the Technology Association of Iowa's Prometheus Awards. These awards recognize achievement in the technology sector from across the state. As part of his duties, Nathan made a trip to the western border to see Google's new data center in Council Bluffs. In the video below, Nathan takes a peak inside the facility, meets some of the Google crew, and chats about technology in Iowa with Google's local operations manager… read more
April 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Calling all Berkshire Hathaway shareholders and non-shareholders: if you're donning the official meeting credentials or are in our fine city of Omaha on Saturday, May 1, join us at Slowdown from 3:30-5:30 for the first-ever, unofficial Berkshire Tweetup. More than 30,000 people from across the globe will be descending on Omaha next Friday through Saturday, April 30 - May 2, for the annual Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting at which business partners Warren… (Photo via flickr.com/photos/bunnicula) read more
April 19, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Ames One positive of a recessing economy is that it enables some would-be entrepreneurs to take the risk and launch out on their own. That was the case for Dan and Alex McClanahan, who in 2009 were recent graduates of Iowa State University in journalism and graphic design, respectively. The pair, who are married, thought they had secured post-graduation jobs in Denver, Colorado within their fields, but due to the economic… read more
April 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Resembling a 'where are they now' feature, the Omaha World-Herald's front-page story yesterday highlighted the lives of three individuals: a very early Microsoft employee, an astronaut currently in space, and an atomic physicist. The big catch, and the reason it deserved the front page: the three were childhood friends in the rural city of Ashland, Nebraska, population 2,262. I hope you enjoy the article as much as I did. I think it's quite fascinating. (Photo on left from Omaha.com) | Putting Ashland on the map By Matthew Hansen Published Sunday April 18, 2010 Not long ago, a man named Jeff e-mailed his old buddy Clay. He wanted to express… read more
April 18, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Keeping in line with weekly links to startup-related posts that we find interesting, each Sunday we'll be sharing a video with solid content that we found while scouring the web for entrepreneurial and innovative inspiration. This week's video features Tony Hsieh's at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. In the clip, Tony gives insight into Zappos' success, which can be attributed… read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
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Winners will be announced live on stage at
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