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Omaha developer wins Zappos’ API Challenge

2149_775b99d28b_small April 21, 2011 by Brittany Mascio

Omaha Last month, Zappos hosted its first API Developer Challenge-palooza-athon, a contest that rewarded folks for creating new uses of Zappos' API. The company accepted submissions ranging from a simple widget module to even a single page web app — anything that made a creative use of the API. The top ideas were rewarded in the following three categories: Most Fun and Weird Application, Best Mash-up Application, and Best Overall Application Most Fun and Weird Application Omaha's Scott Blaine took home the title for Best Overall Application for his app, OutfitHer. In the email interview below, Blaine, a Java developer … read more

FEATURES

Big Omaha Video Series: Tony Hsieh of ‘Delivering Happiness’ & Zappos

1841_9adb60113f_small March 1, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the last presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of the New York Times bestseller "Delivering Happiness". When Tony confirmed that he'd be able to make Big Omaha 2010, we all knew we were in for a treat. Tony shared many of the details around what has made the Zappos organization… read more

FEATURES

PrairieCast: Aayush Phumbhra of textbook rental website Chegg

1107_eecca3f381_small July 22, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Des Moines This week on PrairieCast our guest is Aayush Phumbhra, co-founder and senior vice president of Chegg, a Santa Clara, California-based company often described as the "Netflix of textbook rentals." Aayush earned his MBA at Iowa State University in Ames and joined forces with the founders of Cheggpost.com, a local website focused on saving students money. Several iterations and years later, Chegg now boasts more than 120 employees, a headquarters in Santa Clara and a shipping operation across the street from Zappos in Louisville, Kentucky. According to a TechCrunch post last month, Chegg has raised more than 140 million dollars… read more

FEATURES

Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event

939_76776203d6_small May 27, 2010 by Guest Contributor

Omaha Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy's producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she's given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie News – she's made a few edits and added an afterward detailing an email she received from Omaha's Mayor Jim Suttle.  read more

NEWS

Big Omaha: Saturday live blog

907_d33c9ae21f_small May 15, 2010 by Geoff Wood

Omaha 8:03 a.m. Welcome to Day 2 of Big Omaha. After an educational, enjoyable, and inspirational day of speakers, parties, and connecting yesterday, we're getting set to jump into another shared experience with the likes of Dennis Crowley (foursquare), Melody McCloskey (StyleSeat) and Tony Hsieh (Zappos). I'm the duly appointed live blogger for today so if you're not in the room, feel free to check back here throughout the day or follow the Twitter stream… read more

INTERVIEWS

Tony Hsieh discusses Zappos’ culture, ‘Delivering Happiness’ book

893_b2936f8fab_small May 9, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha About a week ago, I had the privilege of interviewing one of this decade's leading entrepreneurs, Tony Hsieh. Prior to building Zappos into a company that Amazon would eventually acquire for 850 million-dollars, Hsieh co-founded and sold the internet advertising network LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 million-dollars in 1998. Tony's passion and drive to build Zappos' company culture is infectious…  read more

NEWS

Gathering questions for Tony Hsieh of ‘Delivering Happiness’ & Zappos

861_11633ef1c9_small April 26, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski

Tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday, April 27) I will be interviewing Big Omaha 2010 speaker Tony Hsieh, author of the upcoming book Delivering Happiness and CEO of Zappos, and I want to hear from you, our readers, as to the questions you'd like me to ask Tony. Ideas, suggestions, feedback and thoughts are all open, please leave your comment below and we'll try to get through as many questions as possible! We're excited to have Tony in for Big Omaha in just over two weeks! Get your tickets today if you haven't because…well, you know the drill! For those unfamiliar with Tony and his study of happiness… read more

FEATURES

Sunday Video Series: Tony Hsieh on Zappos’ key to success

838_32a94c9597_small April 18, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski

Keeping in line with weekly links to startup-related posts that we find interesting, each Sunday we'll be sharing a video with solid content that we found while scouring the web for entrepreneurial and innovative inspiration. This week's video features Tony Hsieh's at South by Southwest Interactive 2009. In the clip, Tony gives insight into Zappos' success, which can be attributed…  read more