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 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Austin Leading up to South by Southwest Interactive, we interviewed Bob Weinschenk, an Austin resident and the CEO of Des Moines-based SmartyPig, about joining the company in 2009 and his current role in the startup. Inevitably, the topic of working for a Silicon Prairie-based startup versus working for a startup in the Valley became a point of discussion because he has experience with both. "Having lived in… read more
March 24, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Kansas City Nick Seguin, manager of entrepreneurship for the Kauffman Foundation, the Kansas City-based nonprofit that's working to influence entrepreneurship… read more
March 23, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha In seemingly every arena that he's competed, Joe Moglia has been a winner. Now the chairman of the board at TD Ameritrade and president and coach for the Omaha Nighthawks, Moglia carries a résumé that includes both Ivy League football championships as an assistant at Dartmouth — the Big Green was one of several teams he coached in his first 16-year stint in football — and the turnaround of… read more
March 23, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Austin (Photo by Janae Weinbrenner of Imijfoto) Leading up to South by Southwest Interactive I wrote a post about five startups from the Silicon Prairie that I thought had a chance to break out at the five-day conference – "Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW." With this post, I wasn't predicting any of the startups to have "the breakout app" of SXSW 2011, but I was suggesting each… read more
March 23, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Brian Kaiser never could find a company with the kind of culture he craved. So he started his own. Kaiser, who co-founded Hudl and today serves as CTO of the Lincoln-based company, spoke last month at the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship about the role culture has played in the rapid growth of his company, which provides web-based software for coaches to use in their analysis… 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 22, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Austin For the second year in a row, SmartyPig CEO Bob Weinschenk participated in South by Southwest Interactive panel that brought a lively discussion on stage and a packed house in the seats. Last year's topic, "Banking 2.0: Financial Services Driven by People & Emerging Technologies," had the panelists focus on what each of their companies… read more
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