March 20, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
"Silicon Prairie: America's New Internet Economy," a short documentary that stresses the importance of the Open Internet by telling the stories of startups in the middle of America, is now available on the film's website. "Pay what you want, from $0 up," the site states, encouraging donations to the film that began as crowd-funded project. Shot last October in six states—Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri … read more
March 19, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
This isn't startup news, but since this week marks the start of March Madness, why not a post about two of the region's best college basketball players on social media? Mashable on Monday named Creighton University's Doug McDermott and University of Kansas' Ben McLemore to its "10 March Madness Stars to Follow on Instagram." "We've collected 10 of college basketball's biggest names—from the men's and women's tournaments, big-name teams and underdogs alike—who also post photos on Instagram," wrote Mashable's Sam Laird. Both teams … read more
March 19, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
La Vista The Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship returns to the Omaha metro April 12 with a new name, brand and speaker lineup. The conference is now called Intersect and in addition to its local slate of speakers, the organizers are also bringing in three presenters from outside of the region. Venture capitalist, author and TechStars co-founder Brad Feld will kick off the seventh annual event with the morning keynote "Startup Communities." Feld last year released a book with the same name … read more
March 19, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Austin CNN last Saturday premiered its roundup of more than a week's worth of coverage of this year's South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. "The annual SXSW festival is where the tools developed in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are turned into the culture of today," said CNN producer Josh Rubin, the host of the 30-minute special. That "elsewhere" … read more
March 18, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City When Microsoft's Azure cloud platform went down in late February because of an expired SSL certificate, Kansas City, Mo. startup Stackify jumped at the opportunity to create a free solution for everyone, including itself. Stackify, which uses Azure, learned of the platform's crash on a Friday and later that day … read more
March 18, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Portland Over the next three months, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, startup RecBob hopes to pick up its game. The team behind a recreational sports management app is one of 10 companies chosen to participate in the inaugural Nike+ Accelerator that kicked off today in Portland, RecBob founder John Schnipkoweit said Sunday. "They are giving the 10 companies the first access to (its FuelBand) API to look at that data … read more
March 18, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha In two weeks, What Cheer's John Henry Müller, the Omaha designer behind the grassroots campaign "I live in Omaha," will jump in a moving truck with his family and head west to San Francisco. After living in the Midwest their entire lives, Müller said today on his website that it's now time for he and his wife to "explore and gain new perspectives." The announcement comes four months after Müller and his team at What Cheer decided to close … read more
March 18, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Divshot, a team that came together at Startup Weekend Kansas City last April, isn't slowing down. After building a prototype in its first 48 hours of existence, three months later it went on to win a Los Angeles pitch competition in July. The next month, it entered San Monica startup accelerator Launchpad LA. Today, less than a month after graduating from the accelerator, it announced it closed a $1.1 million … read more
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