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

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

Des Moines For our 50th birthday episode we decided to push the envelope and try two guests in studio for the first time. Jake Kerber, CEO of Locusic, and Chris Conetzkey, editor of the Des Moines Business Record, both joined us as PrairieCast newbies for a great discussion. Discussed this week: Business Record: "A spirited look at Iowa's brightest thinkers" … read more

Des Moines We'll be coming to you live from the Midland Building at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 50 of PrairieCast! Our guests for the half-century episode are Chris Conetzkey, editor of the Des Moines Business Record, and Jake Kerber, founder of Locusic. (Left, photo from twitter.com and twitter.com) Topics for the show include the Business Record's … read more

Des Moines We had a few technical issues getting the podcast running this week, and the first few minutes are missing from the archive above. We pressed on undeterred and had a great conversation with Josh Fleming of Lessing-Flynn and VineMe as well as old favorite Danny Schreiber, managing editor of Silicon Prairie News. … read more

Des Moines We'll be live today at 2 p.m. CDT for Episode 49 of PrairieCast with guests Josh Fleming from Lessing-Flynn and Silicon Prairie News managing editor, Danny Schreiber (left, photos from twitter.com/joshfleming and twitter.com/dannyaway). We'll be talking with Fleming about his project, the Lessing-Flynn Battle of the Brands … read more

Des Moines Episode 48: The one were everything goes perfect – Our guest this week on PrairieCast was Willis Jackson, the other part of SPN's contributer team in Kansas City. We talk with Willis about his new startup, ShownHome, his role as contributor Silicon Prairie Startup Digest, and the other current news out of the Kansas City community. Discussed this week … read more

Des Moines PrairieCast is live today at 2 p.m CDT for Episode 48. Our guest is Willis Jackson, a Silicon Prairie News contributor in Kansas City, the curator of the Silicon Prairie Startup Digest and an entrepreneur who recently left his "day job" to put a full time effort into a new startup, ShownHome. Our discussion topics are slated to include Dwolla's latest milestone, Google Transit across the region and a UNL student competing for a $20,000 developer prize. PrairieCast is a live podcast … read more

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

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