February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha MindMixer, a Gov 2.0 startup focused on connecting a community's constituents with its decision-makers, has announced a $300,000 round of funding from Omaha-based Dundee Venture Captial. It wasn't too… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha For over an hour, renowned industrial design Yves Behar of San Francisco-based fuseproject spoke to attendees gathered for the Design Alliance Omaha (daOMA) speaker event this past Thursday, February 24th in the Joslyn Art Museum's historic Witherspoon Concert Hall. In the opening of his talk, Behar recollected his entrance to the museum earlier that day and his thought to immediately read more
February 28, 2011 by Kate Ellingson
Lincoln Nebraska’s second annual 3-2-1 Quick Pitch competition handed out five awards last Wednesday, February 23rd at Memorial Stadium’s West Stadium Club. Fifty-four students from high schools, two-year colleges and four-year universities gave it their best shot in just three minutes, delivering their “elevator pitch” to over 40 judges from the nearby business and academic community. Students' ideas ranged from software privacy online… read more
February 28, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
The week ahead might just be the busiest week of events we've seen in a long while, and moreover, it's filled with a handful of quality startup-focused events. We're, of course, very excited about the first event on this week's calendar, the Silicon Prairie News - Kansas City Launch Party, and we hope to see many familiar and new faces at McFadden's on Tuesday night. You'll find the listing… read more
February 24, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha It's with great pleasure that I get to introduce you to the newest full-time member of the Silicon Prairie News team, Editor Michael Stacy (left, photo courtesy of Stacy). As a Kansas City, Missouri native and Creighton University graduate, Michael has strong roots in the Silicon Prairie region. Over these past three years he layed the foundation for his journalism career as a reporter for the Springfield (Missouri) News-Leader. Now, he's ready to join our team as we dive deeper into building our newsroom, drawing from what's been established by others and creating our guidebook and styleguide… read more
February 24, 2011 by John T. Meyer
Sioux Falls (Photo by TJ Nelson via Facebook.) Sioux Falls' own conference, OTA Sessions, has announced the complete speaker lineup for their April 1st event and this year's event has a special Silicon Prairie feel. That's right, our own Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson, will be two of the headline speakers for the sessions. This year will be the second installment of the OTA Sessions which strives to "shatter the… read more
February 24, 2011 by John T. Meyer
Omaha (Editor's Note: As part of contributor John T. Meyer's "Tools for the Trade" series, I've asked him to introduce and post a presentation he and his brother gave earlier this year under the activities of their social marketing company, 9 Clouds.) Last month my brother, Scott, and I had the opportunity to lead one of the AIM Institute Technology Breakfast Seminars at the Gallup Riverfront Campus. It was a great event which brought out about… read more
February 23, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha We have an update on a entrepreneurial story we told this past July about Greg Chambers, the bank sales manager who quit his day job in 2007 to found Mad Gringo, a clothing company featuring men's tropical island shirts and casual wear. This past week, the three-year old Mad Gringo merged with the more than 20-year old Wes & Willy, an Omaha-based clothing company geared towards a variety of boys clothing (sold in department stores… read more
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