March 31, 2011 by Levi Rosol
Des Moines For almost one year now Josh Fleming, Tony Muse and Chris Taulborg have been hard at work building Des Moines' newest startup, VineMe. VineMe is billed as a "social platform that allows the world to crowdsource content by time, tags, places and people." read more
March 29, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City A West Coast-based venture capital firm with operations in San Francisco and Seattle has added a Silicon Prairie location to its stable. Indie Ventures, which focuses on funding and business development for digital media … read more
March 28, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Hayneedle, Hudl and Sojern headline the list of companies that will be recognized by the AIM Institute this year with Technology Celebration Awards, which honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to Nebraska’s information technology scene. The AIM Institute announced the recipients of its awards on Friday and will present the awards at its annual banquet April 19 at Qwest Center Omaha. … read more
March 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Even though Zaarly's left behind its Mobile HQ (a rented RV) following South by Southwest Interactive, the team has continued to keep its development wheels spinning since returning from Austin, Texas. Asked via email when users could expect ... read more
March 22, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Thanks to a buzzer-beater in overtime — or the online polling equivalent thereof — Hollrback is moving on. The Omaha-based startup advanced to the third round of the Startup Madness Tournament, an NCAA tournament-style contest that started with… read more
March 21, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Austin As I prepared for the trip down to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive earlier this month, I kept a close eye on the Silicon Prairie attendee Twitter stream to see what folks from the region were up to in Austin. The expected tweets about panels and parties raised my anticipation as usual, but a tweet from Nick Seguin of Kansas City… read more
March 18, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Hollrback is one win away from the Sweet 16. Of sorts. The Omaha-based startup advanced yesterday to the second round of the Startup Madness Tournament, an NCAA tournament-style contest pitting 64 startups in competition for a grand prize worth more than $25,000. Startups advance through the… read more
March 17, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Lately, the team at Smelly Puppy has been using its prized scheduling app, QuickCal, to help with more than calendar issues. QuickCal, as we explained last summer, takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates those events and tasks in iCal. So, for instance, instead of opening iCal and entering an hour-long coffee meeting with John, you'd open QuickCal, enter "Coffee… read more
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