March 15, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines With today's news that Dropbox acquired Mailbox—check out the Wall Street Journal for the full story—we're re-releasing our video of the San Francisco startup's co-founder, Gentry Underwood, speaking at our Des Moines event this past October. "I think one of the best examples out there right now of a startup that focuses is Dropbox," … read more
March 15, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Lincoln The third Nebraska Code Camp has arrived. It kicked off this morning—a day earlier that last year—with a variety of workshops. Tomorrow's action starts at 9 a.m., and keynote speaker Ted Neward takes the stage at 9:15. The event, which takes place … read more
Lincoln Hurrdat founder and CEO Blake Lawrence on Tuesday received the "New Company Entrepreneur Award" at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Distinguished Entrepreneur Awards, part of the EntrepreneuringDays@UNL event. Lawrence graduated from UNL in 2009 and went on to … read more
March 9, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Austin More than 27,000 people have descended on Austin, Texas for the 19th annual South by Southwest Interactive. And that's just registered attendees, according to ABC News. To help those from the Silicon Prairie find each other in the Lone Star State, we've rounded up the region's presence at SXSW. We've also assembled a Twitter list of attendees – tweet @SiliconPrairie to be added. … read more
March 8, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha A LinkedIn message between two Omahans nine months ago resulted in an announcement today of an $11.2 million acquisition. The company making the acquisition, Scottsdale, Ariz.-based … read more
March 6, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Austin As we've done for five years now, we want to help connect those from the Silicon Prairie making the trek to Texas for South by Southwest Interactive. In past years, entrepreneurs from across the region have attended, some bringing whole teams – RecBob even had a uniform last year (left) – and others earning spots on panels. We'll be publishing a post tomorrow with those Silicon Prairie people who are on panels or throwing a party, such as the State … read more
March 6, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Lincoln The University of Nebraska-Lincoln student-led entrepreneurship organization HIVE is hosting the school's first Startup Weekend this Friday-Sunday. After participation in "some of the best" Startup Weekend events … read more
March 5, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines Cloud computing infrastructure provider Appcore, which earned the top spot last year on Five Elms Capital's list of "fastest-growing companies in the middle of the country," announced today in a press release that it closed a $6 million Series B round. The new capital comes from private investors and existing investor Telephone Acquisition Company, an investment company owned by a group of Midwest-based telephone companies. The five-year-old … read more
March 4, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Office furniture company turnstone on Friday handed out its third $20,000 office makeover in three days to wrap up the Silicon Prairie leg of Culture@Work in the Heartland competition. Traveling in a turnstone branded-bus, company representatives made stops at Des Moines startup Goodsmiths, Omaha ad agency Baily Lauerman and Kansas City, Mo. web design and development firm CremaLab to personally congratulate … read more
March 4, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Cedar Rapids EntreFest!, an annual small business and entrepreneurship conference hosted by University of Northern Iowa's MyEntre.Net, takes place in Cedar Rapids, Iowa this Thursday and Friday. With new breakout sessions such as the Lean Startup Methodology and Business Model Generation, the event aims to attract founders of high-growth startups in addition to those behind small businesses. StartupCity Des Moines' Christian Renaud is set … read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.