May 7, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha If you've ever struggled to recall the name of someone you recently met, then you can relate to Sumeet Jain, the co-creator of Omawho. "When I moved to Omaha a couple years ago, I starting meeting a lot of people—and I couldn't always remember their names. So I wanted a way to put faces to names," Jain said in an email interview. "That's the first reason I had for building Omawho." The second? … read more
August 10, 2012 by Jeff Slobotski
San Francisco Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce's director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but weren't completely familiar with our work and efforts to build our region's entrepreneurial and startup community. The trip was filled with a number … read more
June 18, 2012 by Guest Contributor
San Francisco In the weeks leading up to Apple's World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco, various conversations between Andy Peters, Gabe Kangas and I snowballed into tweets and Facebook posts that culminated in an Omahans and Expats meetup one week ago. We had more people show up than had RSVP'd and we ended up being the last patrons left at the Press Club of San Francisco. For those in attendance, from either end of the geographic divide, the event provided … read more
June 10, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
San Francisco Following Apple's World Wide Developers Conference (WWDC) opening day in Moscone West on Monday, Omahans and other Silicon Prairie people attending the event – or happen to find themselves in San Francisco for whatever reason – are invited to a meetup three blocks northwest at the Press Club of San Francisco (20 Yerba Buena Lane) from 6-9 p.m. PDT. The event, "Omahans and Expats," is organized by Rahul Gupta … read more
June 2, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Omaha Last week the last of the second batch of the Stored Potential banners went up in Omaha. The project was ambitions, the work was hard, and the final project is exceptional. Defunct grain elevators were transformed into a piece of art which speaks for the city. The city didn’t do it. You and I didn’t do it. Emerging Terrain, an Omaha non-profit, did it. And they are to be thanked. It is organizations like theirs which are helping … read more
October 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Photo by Frapestaartje via Flickr Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps you 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact me at… read more
October 15, 2010 by Guest Contributor
Omaha (This is a guest post written by Rahul Gupta, an Omaha entrepreneur, erstwhile actor and recent addition to the team at the Planet Water Foundation.) A lot can happen in five months. I recently tweeted that Scott Harrison’s talk about charity: water at Big Omaha 2010 “literally changed the trajectory of my life.” That was no hyperbole. That talk, at that event, conspired with that moment to force… read more
March 30, 2010 by Guest Contributor
Omaha After following Robert Murphy's blog and reading his excellent, in-depth recaps of events – Big Omaha 2009, Nicholas Kristof at KANEKO – we've asked him to contribute event recaps to Silicon Prairie News. Today, we're excited to share hist first, which covers KANEKO's most recent event. read more
March 26, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Tune in at 5:30 p.m. CDT to watch a psychoanalyst take the stage at KANEKO with three local social media users. From KANEKO's event page: Among his many pursuits as a Lacanian psychoanalyst and psychiatrist, Dr. Jean-Pierre Klotz examines the relationships between subjectivity… read more
Omaha Last month, I sat down with Rahul Gupta, the Omaha-based CEO of DispatchThis, Inc., a California-based company providing web-based software for the concrete pumping industry. Rahul, who grew up and attended college in California, shared with me ... read more
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