February 10, 2012 by Guest Contributor
Des Moines (This is a guest post by Riane Menardi.) In early November, I had no idea that the Midwest had a startup presence — heck, I think I had to look up what exactly a “startup” was after I saw a tweet about the Startup Job Crawl. I was clueless, but intrigued about this four-hour, tech-industry networking event. As a 2011 Drake grad, I was desperate for a steady paycheck … read more
February 7, 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 or any of our coverage … read more
We're excited to bring you our 77th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions at Corporate 3 Design, Deal Garden and Anderson Auto Group; Thought District in Lincoln; Integer … read more
October 26, 2011 by Guest Contributor
I've often said that getting a technology startup launched has never been easier. So many services, software and … read more
October 8, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
As Thinc Iowa nears (now just 12 days away), our staff resources have been moved around for event planning and execution and unfortunately for our readers, this means our content volume and deadlines take a hit. Expect fresh stories daily, but look to Prairie Moves to keep you in the loop on the activities of our region's entrepreneurs and startup companies when we don't have time to produce a full post. And if you were wondering how Prairie Moves … read more
August 22, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Des Moines We're two months from the inaugural Thinc Iowa conference, and we are humbled by the response of our community and pleased to announce six more sponsors who will help us build this event. Please help us welcome our newest sponsors: Notifyworks, Torsion Mobile, RecoEngine, SeedHere, LiveStream and Microsoft BizSpark. We'd like to extend … read more
August 9, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Reminder - Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we'll miss covering because we can't get to all of them. If you'd like to help us increase our content volume, check out our post: "Calling all contributors: SPN adding to team across the region". read more
July 26, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Published every Tuesday, 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 … read more
We're excited to bring you our 63rd Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions from Heartland Family Service in Omaha and Eight Seven Central, Torsion Mobile … read more
July 21, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Des Moines Torsion Mobile today divulged new details on a project it has kept under wraps for months, most notably that the project will benefit from $50,000 in state funding. Torsion, a Des Moines-based mobile solutions provider co-founded by Christian Gurney and Richard Kirsner, received $50,000 from the Iowa Department of Economic Development (IDED) … read more
Through August 22, help us decide the winners of our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards, which will recognize 12
companies and individuals. You can vote once per day per category.
Winners will be announced live on stage at
our August 30 event.