March 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location in front of Omaha City Hall * South by Southwest: * Attendees from the Prairie at South by Southwest * The Silicon Prairie Party hosted by Big Omaha * DJ Bonehead at the Silicon Prairie Party * Thanks again to our party sponsors * Gary Vaynerchuk's #SecretWineParty * Don't Move, Build a Community Where You… read more
March 12, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location in the RockDex office in the home of its founder Jimmy Winter * Interview with Rachel Jacobson of Film Streams * Series on new online publication on the Prairie * Startup Weekend Omaha coming March 19-21 * Show guest Jimmy Winter talks about the new version of RockDex coming soon, Rockdex's recent award from… read more
March 11, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Our guest for Episode 7 of PrairieCast is Shane Reiser, a Des Moines-based startup enthusiast who facilitated this past weekend's Startup Weekend Des Moines event. Shane shared stories of the four companies that emerged from the event, discussed the panel of experts who judged the event, and previewed future Startup Weekend events. PrairieCast evolves again this week as we take a TWIT.tv round table-style approach to the Week in… read more
March 5, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week on PrairieCast we discussed migrating to Des Moines for the purpose of creating your business. We had two guests, Mike Sansone of ConverStations.com and Doug Mitchell of Create WOW Media, both natives of California who independently made the decision that Des Moines was the best place to create their businesses. We talked about the process they used in seeking out Des Moines, other communities they considered, their biggest surprise after moving here… read more
March 5, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location from Slowdown at the Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit aterparty * Interview with Summit keynote Blake Mycoskie coming next week (recorded by Malone & Co) * Omaha YP Summit recap * WordPress Happy Hour coming to Des Moines * New Silicon Prairie News weekly features… read more
February 26, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week * Filming on location at Greater Omaha Chamber's Cornstalks gathering (held fourth Thursday of the month) * Next Thursday's Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit – interviews with keynote speakers Blake Mycoskie, Patricia Martin, and next week William Taylor * Startup Digest launched in Des Moines with Shane Reiser… read more
February 25, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This was a week of firsts for PrairieCast. We had our first two-part show as well as our first two guest show. Nathan T. Wright of LavaRow and Jeff Slobotski of Silicon Prairie News joined us to talk about the upcoming South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive conference in Austin, Texas. Nathan and Jeff are veterans of this show, dubbed by many to be "spring break for geeks," and both are presenting sessions this year. We discuss their presentations, The Silicon Prairie Party hosted by… read more
February 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location at Barley's TipTop during the Greater Omaha Young Professionals' Style Your Sole Party, a pre-party for this year's Young Professionals Summit * Happy (belated) Birthday Dusty! * Upcoming interviews with Young Professionals Summit speakers: TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie, CEO and founder of LitLamp read more
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