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PROFILES

LivingSocial co-founder talks about building viral products

1192_5bb98ea4ab_small August 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

"The first deal we ran we started in just one city – in Washington D.C., our home base – and we sold 53 vouchers to a local sushi restaurant," said Aaron Batalion, co-founder of LivingSocial. "On our one-year anniversary we were live in 53 markets. So, it's been a pretty exciting year in launching this product." LivingSocial Deals, one of three products LivingSocial has released, reached the Omaha market on July 13, two weeks before its one-year anniversary. Today, deals are offered in 58 cities, including four cities outside of the U.S., two in the United Kingdom… read more

SERIES

Prairie Moves: The World Tri, Proxibid, Medizzle and more

1096_c2691ba1ba_small July 27, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

(Photo by hennasabel via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. read more

NEWS

Omaha World-Herald launches Daily Deal Omaha

1112_14b25e7d3b_small July 23, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Yesterday, the Omaha World-Herald (OWH) threw their name in the hat for daily deal offerings serving Omaha. Although their launch trails that of major players Groupon and LivingSocial, they have an existing audience, ad sales team, and, of course, a strong local brand that will accelerate their version, Daily Deal Omaha, to the forefront. "What makes Daily Deal… read more

SERIES

Prairie Moves: Andrew Wirick, Clint Harvey, Susan Thomas and more

1053_ec5cf96dee_small July 13, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

(Photo by Caza_No_7 via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage… read more

NEWS

Daily deal website LivingSocial adds Omaha to its list of 52

1074_f887321a9a_small July 13, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha There's no doubt about it, three things are currently trending: email newsletters, daily deals, and Justin Bieber's song Omaha Mall. There are few similarities between the three, especially with the latter in the mix, but one that hits on them all is the news of the day: LivingSocial adds Omaha to its list of 52 markets. read more

SERIES

Account Executive, Programmer, Email Marketing Specialist & more

June 18, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

We're excited to bring you our sixteenth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Living Social, Princess Lasertron, HowMuchWhere.com, and Oriental Trading, all located in Omaha. If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing… read more