December 23, 2011 by Geoff Wood
You, the Silicon Prairie News community, know the stories behind Dwolla, Hudl and Zave Networks, which I shared in the Part 1 of this post. You also know that Scott Harrison of New York-based charity: water gave one of the most memorable presentations to the world in Omaha and that Ben Silbermann of Palo Alto's Pinterest, who’s leading what some are calling Silicon Valley’s hottest startup … read more
December 22, 2011 by Geoff Wood
In an article featured on Forbes.com on Monday, Anneke Jong of The Daily Muse spotlights seven regions around the country that are burgeoning hubs for startup activity, including our very own Silicon Prairie. Each region has a name that plays off of the "Silicon" in Silicon Valley, which Jong describes as "a metonym for the entrepreneurial spirit that's fueled … read more
December 19, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Forbes published a story today shedding light on the growing number of startup communities throughout the United States that use "Silicon" in their name.* The Silicon Prairie was among the seven cities and regions featured in the article, "The New Start-up Scene: From Silicon Strip to Silicon Mitten," and we … read more
July 28, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha In January of this year, Todd Nichols began working full-time on his startup, TalkAbroad, a company using online video conferencing to connect American college students learning a foreign language with native speakers abroad. The idea for the Omaha native's startup came about while working for a micro-finance organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he learned to speak Spanish. "[I] spent a few years thinking about some of the skills that people down there had and my… read more