August 5, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Reminder - Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in one of our recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (one day late this week), 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 … read more
August 2, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Reminder - Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursday, 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 … read more
July 19, 2011 by Geoff Wood
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
July 19, 2011 by Geoff Wood
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
July 1, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Des Moines As iPhone users logged some 1.5 million miles on Uppward, the Des Moines-based creators of the flight-based social application fielded frequent requests from Android users to bring the app to their platform. Consider those requests granted. And then some. Uppward’s James Eliason announced Tuesday that Uppward will launch a Facebook app and is currently accepting beta testers … read more
June 29, 2011 by Danny Schreiber & Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts … read more
June 28, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines On this week's PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Mike Colwell of the Business Innovation Zone and Casesmpl and James Eliason of Eliason Media and Uppward. Discussed this week: Casesmpl launches, Dream Big, Grow Here contest announced for 7/1, Uppward expands to any device that includes Facebook … read more
April 20, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines On this week's PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row and Uppward and Royce Haynes, a contributer to Silicon Prairie News in Kansas City. Discussed this week: 140 Characters Conference coming to Des Moines, A look back at Startup Weekend Kansas City and Startup Storm, The Greater Des Moines Partnership highlights Dwolla, Wichita's Jonathon George and Boxcar, Zaarly releases branding … read more
April 11, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we've… read more
April 5, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
Omaha Ben Sinclair, co-founder of Uppward, presented the social travel application that makes it easier for travelers to chat, make connections and get value from in-flight conversations. The application allows users to add and check-in to specific flights and connect with fellow travelers sitting beyond their immediate row. “There is at least one person on a flight you should know,” Sinclair said on behalf of Uppward. “There’s got to be other people you… read more