July 19, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines This week on PrairieCast, we had Nate Becker from SHift and Uppward – in town for the week from Brooklyn, New York – as our first in-studio guest in the new configuration for the show. Additionally, Danny Schreiber, Silicon Prairie News's managing editor Skyped in from Omaha. Discussed this week "Silicon Prairie Feedback List, Version 1.0" … read more
July 19, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Today at 2 p.m. CDT we're excited to have Nate Becker, the fourth and last member of the Uppward founding team to appear on PrairieCast, join us in our Des Moines studio for episode 47. Nate, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, works remotely with both Uppward and SHift. We'll be talking about Dwolla founder Ben Milne's post that "starting a business in Iowa ... isn't hard", 9 Blue Labs debut, Syncbak's Series B funding and more. Silicon Prairie News managing editor, Danny Schreiber, will also pop in via skype to talk about the fast blossoming Silicon Prairie Feedback List initiative. … read more
December 22, 2010 by Christopher New
West Des Moines Most don’t have it easy when they launch their startups. Companies will universally go through the initial process of finding office space, or converting a basement into workspace, building a client list, or finding vendors and consultants for day-to-day needs. SHift, a web and mobile application development firm founded this past February by Ben Sinclair, Nate Becker and Chris Burns, had a leg up… read more
December 6, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Des Moines In preparation for her upcoming trip to the LeWeb conference this week, TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis tried out the service of one of the conference's partners, Planely, a web-based app designed to help you connect with other passengers on your flight. After signing up and entering her flight details, a match was made. She learned that another LeWeb attendee was going to be on the same flight (screenshot above). Tsotsis shared her success story on TechCrunch… read more
November 24, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Image from the iTunes app store. The four person crew behind Uppward announced today that their mobile application aimed at connecting and rewarding air travelers had been approved by Apple and released in the iTunes App Store. James Eliason, Nathan ... read more
September 7, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Derek Purdy 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… read more