Columbia The South by Southwest follow-up story for Newsy was just as worthwhile as the first. The Columbia, Mo. startup last week garnered the award for Best iPad Publishing at the MediaPost Appy Awards, where it won the News category in 2011. The company's free video news app … read more
March 8, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Austin Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) is in Austin, Texas, today and Saturday for his second trip to South by Southwest Interactive to promote the third version of the Startup Act at several events. The bill, first introduced by Sens. Moran and Mark Warner (D-Va.) in 2011, aims to fuel economic growth and create jobs through Entrepreneur and STEM Visas for highly educated immigrants, tax code reforms to ease … read more
March 6, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Austin As we've done for five years now, we want to help connect those from the Silicon Prairie making the trek to Texas for South by Southwest Interactive. In past years, entrepreneurs from across the region have attended, some bringing whole teams – RecBob even had a uniform last year (left) – and others earning spots on panels. We'll be publishing a post tomorrow with those Silicon Prairie people who are on panels or throwing a party, such as the State … read more
March 6, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City A charter bus transporting 40 entrepreneurs will depart from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation at about 9 p.m Thursday for South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Startup Missouri is hosting the "ShowMe SXSW" caravan, with sponsorships from Kauffman Foundation, the St. Louis Regional Chamber and others. Cameron Cushman (below), senior advisor at Kauffman Foundation … read more
October 25, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Austin Just more than two weeks remain for startups to apply for the fifth annual SXSW Interactive Accelerator. Applications are due Nov. 9 for the Accelerator, a competitive pitch event featuring 56 startups with innovative new products and services, which takes place March 11-13 during South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Forty-eight companies will be chosen to participate March 11-12 in the main Accelerator event, which features six categories: social technology, innovative web, news technology, health technology, mobile technology and entertainment and gaming technology. Eight more startups will compete in the Accelerator … read more
April 2, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Austin Nevermind that he was busy participating in one panel and moderating another last month at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. Jeff Slobotski, SPN's co-founder and chief community officer, still found time to put on his reporter's hat and go to work. In the midst of a whirlwind few days in Austin, he caught up with Scott Case, CEO of the Startup … read more
March 29, 2012 by Michael Stacy
Austin The beauty of writing about a panel discussion between three people frequently featured on the very blog for which you're writing — and a blog co-founded by one of those people — is that you can afford to forgo formal introductions and get right down to business. And, given that this post is long overdue, that's precisely what I intend to do. Earlier this month at South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas, I attended "The Field of Dreams Manifesto," a panel … read more
March 19, 2012 by Brittany Mascio
Austin Amid the rain and eventual shine at South By Southwest last week in Austin, Texas, Silicon Prairie News hosted a different kind of open bar. We tried something new this year to extend the networking, take a breather from the conference craze and provide our party attendees a unique experience with an edible spoon. We hosted the Silicon Prairie Cereal Bar on March 11, and more than 600 SXSW attendees joined us at Halcyon, a coffee shop just a few … read more
March 16, 2012 by Danny Schreiber
Austin U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) took the stage at South by Southwest Interactive on Sunday afternoon for a brief presentation, an interview with the director of an Austin startup accelerator and an audience Q&A. His topic, "Encouraging Innovation and Empowering Entrepreneurs," focused on The Startup Act, a bill he co-authored with Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.). "I started looking for an avenue, a venue in which … read more
March 16, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Austin The home stretch – time to take what we've learned the previous three days and fine tune the machine. | 10 a.m. - Load up the RV and head downtown. This was our first morning to sleep (eight hours of sleep, more than double what most of us had gotten in the prior two weeks). This morning, we are ourselves – leaving the team uniforms, games and prizes to rest for a few hours while we re-discover what it feels like to wear our own skin again. | 10:15 a.m. - Stopped at an Imeet.com event at Texenza Coffee … read more
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