January 30, 2013 by Brittany Mascio
Kansas City Individual tickets for Big Kansas City are now on sale. The ticket to our inaugural conference will provide access to the two-and-a-half day event, four official conference parties and an environment that acts as a catalyst for conversation and relationship building. The Big Kansas City general admission ticket is available for $449 and a special entrepreneur/startup discounted ticket … read more
November 5, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Zaarly on Saturday rolled out the latest iteration of its online marketplace to users in Kansas City, the fourth city to receive the revamped version. The new approach, called Storefronts, deviates from Zaary's original request model – "I'd pay blank for blank" – by putting the service providers who respond to the requests up front. "It was just really … read more
August 10, 2012 by Jeff Slobotski
San Francisco Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce's director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but weren't completely familiar with our work and efforts to build our region's entrepreneurial and startup community. The trip was filled with a number … read more
July 26, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Google announced today it would begin offering its Google Fiber network in Kansas City, Kan. and central Kansas City, Mo. to residential neighborhoods that expressed the most interest. To show that interest, residents have the opportunity through Sept. 9 to pre-register for Google Fiber, paying a $10 deposit and providing basic information. … read more
May 16, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Kansas City (This is a guest post by Bo Fishback.) I get questions about this a lot. It seems that just about everyone wants to "do a startup," and that just about that same number of people (read: everyone) "has an idea." But if that's the case, why isn't everyone working for themselves? Setting aside for the moment that the dream and the reality of running a startup are very different things and that many of those "ideas" are likely terrible, there is clearly … read more
March 29, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Austin The beauty of writing about a panel discussion between three people frequently featured on the very blog for which you're writing — and a blog co-founded by one of those people — is that you can afford to forgo formal introductions and get right down to business. And, given that this post is long overdue, that's precisely what I intend to do. Earlier this month at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, I attended "The Field of Dreams Manifesto," a panel … read more
March 20, 2012 by Amy Engle
Austin With South by Southwest Interactive one week behind us, we've compiled links to articles, blog posts, tweets, photos, audio and video that cover or mention Silicon Prairie-based entrepreneurs and startups that took part in the event. During the five-day festival in Austin, Texas, a number of individuals from the Silicon Prairie participated on panels, competed in the accelerator, attended the awards or threw a party. … read more
February 23, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City One year ago, Bo Fishback, then president of Kauffman Labs in Kansas City, returned home from a weekend trip to Los Angeles with one thing on his mind: Zaarly. Today, that one thing is his full-time job. Over the past 365 days, Fishback took a frustration – at 6 feet 8 inches tall, he longed for a way offer other airline … read more
November 23, 2011 by Willis Jackson
Kansas City Last week, we checked in with Tim Jahn and Stella Fayman of Entrepreneurs Unpluggd before they traveled to Kansas City to put on their first event in the Silicon Prairie. The theme for the event, which was held Nov. 15 at Screenland Crown Center and featured Bo Fishback of Zaarly, Tyler Prochnow of Think Big Partners … read more
November 21, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
In its final issue of 2011, Entrepreneur Magazine features Kansas City's Bo Fishback of Zaarly on its cover for a story on "10 trends that will define opportunity next year." Zaarly, a San Francisco-based startup that Fishback co-founded at Startup Weekend Los Angeles in April, is highlighted in the magazine's second trend, collaborative commerce. "Collaborative commerce is seriously hot stuff in startup circles," Jennifer Wang of Entrepreneur writes. "For proof, we need merely to turn to Zaarly, a San Francisco startup that went from zero to launch in three months, rallying high-profile investors and scoring bucketloads of press for its rocket-like trajectory." … read more
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