May 9, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Making its official Nebraska debut last week, Pipeline played it cool. Pipeline, a regional entrepreneurial fellowship based in the Kansas City area, held the first Nebraska module in its history May 2-4 in Omaha and Lincoln. And, on Thursday night, Pipeline took over The KANEKO and opened the module to guests for the COOL Lounge Event. The evening included a "cool conversation" and various attractions from Pipeline innovators past and … read more
March 15, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts … read more
March 12, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Austin 11:30 a.m. - Head to Austin Convention Center in style. Sister lives here and takes me by her cute Fiat convertible door-to-door where I need to go. Cool!? Except it's raining buckets here. Why did I leave 70 degrees in KC? | 12:40 p.m. - Fascinated by the characters everywhere. People in sumo outfits, light up blue hair … whatever it takes to grab already limited attention span of the tech/entrepreneur crowd. Wowie. … read more
We're excited to bring you our 89th Opportunities on the Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please contact Brittany Mascio … 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 Danny Schreiber
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts … read more
January 30, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Overland Park At its Innovator of The Year gala on Thursday, Pipeline , the Kansas-based immersion program for high-growth entrepreneurs, unveiled the 12 innovators of its 2012 class. Today, we take a closer look at those dozen entrepreneurs, who make up the largest class in Pipeline history and the first of the program's six classes to include innovators from outside of Kansas' borders. The bios below were provided by Pipeline. For more on Pipeline's Innovator of The Year event, see the links to our coverage and embedded video … read more
January 27, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Overland Park From interludes for performance art to an auction of high-dollar paintings and sculptures, Pipeline's Innovator of the Year (IOTY) celebration oozed artistic expression. But there was no tableau more telling nor sound more significant than the site of the dozen people that took center stage at night's end and the label Pipeline CEO Joni Cobb assigned to those 12: Pipeline's first regional class. Pipeline, the Kansas-based entrepreneurship immersion program … read more
January 27, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Overland Park As he embarked on his presentation, the last of 10 given Thursday at Pipeline's Innovator of The Year pitch session at the Overland Park (Kan.) Convention Center, Michael O'Shaughnessy cracked wise about the disparate nature of his company, a marketplace for selling transferable tax credits, and the company that had presented just … read more
January 26, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Overland Park When I first met Joni Cobb last April, it didn't take long for me to discern that she was an extremely energetic CEO. In describing Pipeline, the entrepreneurship immersion program that had just received an $800,000 challenge grant … read more