August 13, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming live on Ustream from the Silicon Prairie News office * Enjoying Krispy Kreme doughnuts – new location opened in Omaha * With the Power of Howard, Jimmy Winter moves RockDex forward * South by Southwest 2011: Vote for Panels from the Prairie * Nebraska Film Series: Dana Altman of North Sea Films * Eric Ries of Startup Lessons Learned in Omaha for weekend meeting – more details soon * Tony Hsieh's Delivering… read more
We're excited to bring you our twenty-fourth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Lessing-Flynn in Des Moines and Phenomblue and Oriental Trading in Omaha. read more
August 8, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha This week's video features legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Chris Sacca. Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, talks in this clip about the disappearance of the barriers to creativity, why he invests in something tangible rather than ideas and his thoughts on why mobile will continue to play such an increasing role. Sacca is an amazingly… read more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. read more
August 6, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week * Filming live on Ustream from the Silicon Prairie News office * Silicon Prairie News Ice Cream Social tonight * Show guest Andrea Ciurej, our Silicon Prairie News summer intern * Kurt Matis co-founds company focused on simplifying e-payments * Lodo Software raises $500,000, signs on major customer * Andrea talks about her summer internship at Silicon Prairie News read more
August 1, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Interruptions are the sole distraction of creativity in the workplace, causing Corporate America to work longer hours outside of the office and often times, forcing work to be completed on the weekends. No matter how much coffee you drink or how much sleep you've acquired to prepare yourself for a productive work day, 37signals co-founder Jason Fried says… read more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. read more
July 30, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Mentioned this week * Filming live on Ustream from CAMP Coworking * CAMP open house tonight from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. at the Mastercraft Building at 1111 N. 13th St. * Howard Buffett's Next Generation Leadership Conference in Washington D.C. * Greg Chambers quits day job to start tropical clothing line Mad Gringo * AppendTo co-founders discuss rapid growth, distributed workforce * Silicon Prairie News Ice Cream Social and Two-Year Celebration on Friday, August 6 * Foursquare... read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.