Every day on Silicon Prairie News we celebrate those engaging in entrepreneurship by telling stories of individuals or covering news from startups. Furthermore, we ourselves our entrepreneurs – we're working hard to make Silicon Prairie News a successful company. With that in mind, we turn our attention this week to the events happening around the world as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week (November 15-21), an event "connecting people everywhere through local, national and… read more

Des Moines Last Friday night, the Lava Row social media consulting team of Nathan T. Wright, Hillary Brown and Norah Carroll showed off their new digs to the Des Moines community at their open house. Their new home, the first floor suite in the southwest corner of the Brown-Camp Lofts building (100 Market Street), was originally designed for residential purposes with awesome views of the… read more

Omaha The third annual Highlight Midwest conference has been postponed until further notice. Originally scheduled to be held in Omaha on November 18th, the event will…  read more

Omaha Last week the new Barcamp Omaha website went live, with ticket sales more details about the event. Again this year tickets to the entire event are just $5, which includes: drinks and snacks at the opening party, admission to the daytime event, light breakfast, lunch, and a t-shirt! Truly the best deal around. read more

Omaha November is shaping up to be a busy month, with the recently announced Barcamp Omaha, and now with 3rd annual Highlight Midwest which takes place on Thursday, November 18th. read more

Council Bluffs (At left, the product of ClickRWeight, one of the Forum's presenting companies.) This is a guest post written by Tom Chapman. – The 2010 American Food Venture Forum took place this past Tuesday and Wednesday, October 19-20, at Harrah's Hotel in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The forum was the brainchild of Jude Conway of Entrepreneurial Advisors, Inc. in Clive, Iowa. The Forum… read more

(Jake Mintz of Bump Technologies, a 2010 SXSW Accelerator winner. Photo by Maria Ly.) It's that time of year again! The time of year when conversations and Twitter updates begin to mention South by Southwest, an annual music, film, and interactive conference and festival held in Austin, Texas. Yes, it's still five months away, but if you're a young startup, there's an exciting opportunity you… read more

Omaha Part of the Omaha Silicon Prairie News team – Jeff, Dusty and I – made the rounds last week to three events in Omaha. Kicking off Monday morning with Omaha 10-10-10 and then closing it out on Saturday with TEDxOmaha. Learn about the events in our "Out & About" post and check out the pictures below to see some familiar faces. (Left, John Hobbs and Kevin Berry of Confurrent at the Buy the Big O! Show.) read more