January 19, 2012 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha The Omaha Jaycees has announced this year's Ten Outstanding Young Omahans. It's inspiring to see the collective work of the winners reflected in the way our city is changing. Similar to the way that we at ... read more
January 2, 2012 by Jeff Slobotski
2011 was an amazing year for us at Silicon Prairie News. With the addition of four new full-time team members, more than 1,000 blog posts and a healthy number of meetups, parties and other events, it's safe to say it was a year of tremendous growth and positive change for our company and the greater Silicon Prairie community. It's exciting to take a glimpse of some of the highlights from 2011 and … read more
December 27, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Planning for Startup Nebraska, a future statewide "region" of the Startup America Partnership, is underway. The goal of the Startup America Partnership is to … read more
December 22, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha From Analog the Prairie Dog and the Silicon Prairie News team, we want to wish you and yours a wonderful holiday season! Take some time over the next several days to put away all digital devices and spend time with those who are close to you and share how much they've meant to you over the year. Here's to an amazing last few days of 2011, and a 2012 filled with countless achievements amongst … read more
December 19, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Forbes published a story today shedding light on the growing number of startup communities throughout the United States that use "Silicon" in their name.* The Silicon Prairie was among the seven cities and regions featured in the article, "The New Start-up Scene: From Silicon Strip to Silicon Mitten," and we … read more
December 13, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha We are excited to announce the arrival of Power Protection Products (P3) as a Silicon Prairie sponsor through on-site advertising and our email and RSS subscriptions! CEO Brian Branigan and his team at P3 specialize in the sales … read more
December 8, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Des Moines We are sending out a special Thinc Iowa thank you to the amazing team at Microsoft BizSpark for their support of this year's event, as well as their continued support of our work at Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News. Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access to Microsoft software development tools, connecting them with key industry players, including investors, as well as providing them … read more
December 6, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha As we close out what has been an amazing year in the Silicon Prairie community, at Silicon Prairie News we're busy planning for what promises to be another year of exciting activities and continued growth. It's inspiring to look back just a little more than three years ago to the start of what continues to develop amongst our great startup and entrepreneurial community. It's because of you that we exist. The actions that you take each and every day to grow, develop, scale and launch your ideas into reality. … read more
December 6, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Des Moines The team at Silicon Prairie News would like to extend a gracious thank you to Quova, a Mountain View, Cal.-based company that sponsored our two premiere events, Thinc Iowa and Big Omaha. Founded in 2000, Quova helps businesses of all sizes optimize geolocation based data. Quova's services and information is used by some of the leading search engine providers … read more
December 2, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha As we hit the homestretch of 2011, we'll continue to take time to celebrate the accomplishments of the Silicon Prairie community on Silicon Prairie News, but we're already deep in planning our events of 2012. We're very excited for what's in store for our fourth annual Big Omaha – we'll kick it off the evening of Wednesday, May 9 and wrap it up the night of Friday, May 11. … read more