March 28, 2012 by Amy Engle
Omaha At this year's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, one of the three breakout tracks focused on startups, involving five entrepreneurs from a variety of industries. Videos from the track are now available (below) and feature SPN's own Danny Schreiber and Michael Stacy as moderators. … read more
February 1, 2012 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week on PrairieCast, we're joined by Marco Santana, The Des Moines Register's new technology and startup reporter, as well as our own Michael Stacy. We talked through all the news and notes from Pipeline's Innovator of the Year festivities and looked back on the Gigabit Challenge to discuss what it means to the region. This week in our new Fast Four … read more
January 31, 2012 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 72 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We'll be joined by Marco Santana, the new Des Moines Register startup and technology reporter, and our own Michael Stacy. We'll be talking about the Pipeline Innovator of the Year … read more
January 18, 2012 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week on PrairieCast, the panel's topic list included news from social beauty product engine Bloom.com and the social savings platform SmartyPig, the announcement of two statewide events in Iowa (Startup Fair and i2iowa) and a look at Sarah Lacy's new venture PandoDaily. This week's guests: Emma Peterson of Tikly, Sam DuRegger … read more
January 17, 2012 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Join us at 2 p.m. today for Episode 70 of PrairieCast with guests Sam DuRegger of Dwolla, Emma Peterson of Tikly and our own Silicon Prairie News editor, Michael Stacy. We'll talk about new events announced here in Iowa, a big milestone for Bloom.com, former Big Omaha speaker Sarah Lacy's new venture and more. While you're at it … read more
January 16, 2012 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Join us at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Episode 70 of PrairieCast with guests Sam DuRegger of Dwolla, Emma Peterson of Tikly and our own Silicon Prairie News editor, Michael Stacy. We'll talk about new events announced here in Iowa, a big milestone for Bloom.com, former Big Omaha speaker Sarah Lacy's new venture and more. Did you miss last week's show? Check out the archive "PrairieCast with … read more
September 23, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha With the trio of typical Weekly Wrap-Up hosts — Jeff, Dusty and Danny — scattered to the four winds — or Chicago, Lincoln and Boston, respectively — today, Brittany and I were left to tackle WWU episode No. 107. And since Facebook made such a splash with its f8 announcements on Thursday, we decided to one-up the world's foremost social network with "SPN f9" on Friday. What exactly does that mean, you ask? … read more
August 17, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week West Des Moines attorney Rush Nigut, founder of NotifyWorks joined us in studio and Michael Stacy, Silicon Prairie News editor, skyped in from Omaha. We also put out an offer to startups far and wide to drop off their swag for the PrairieCast set. If you have something fun or funky (nothing with real value, please) that represents your startup … read more
August 16, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Tune in today at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 51 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We'll be joined by West Des Moines attorney Rush Nigut, the founder of NotifyWorks and Michael Stacy, one of Silicon Prairie News' editors in Omaha. Discussion topics will include new kid-friendly apps in the region like PikuZone and Bumble phone, the Mayors Innovation team in both Kansas Citys and the Chris Pirillo meetup. PrairieCast is … read more
July 5, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines On this week's PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I broadcast our first episode live from the Silicon Prairie News office in Des Moines. Editor Michael Stacy joined us via skype to discuss the issues of the week. Since this is our first episode in our new format, we'll be tweaking how we produce the show over the next several weeks. We'd love … read more