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Highlight Midwest – Oct. 29th
So here’s the deal…on October 29th four states will be represented in Kansas City at the first Highlight Midwest Conference. Highlight Midwest showcases the entrepreneurs, innovators, and early-adopters using web technology to grow their businesses, advance their careers, and enrich the regional economy in new ways. Three of the area’s up and coming social media…
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SPN Group on Facebook
Ok all…join the Silicon Prairie News Group on Facebook and comment it up! Let’s make this an addition to our site to sound off on what you’d like to see, what else is going on in the community secret news and more! Look forward to seeing you over at “The Group”
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Help recognize our city’s young entrepreneurs
There’s a few opportunities to recognize the young entrepreneurs that Silicon Prairie News strives to promote and build their business. The first is the Omaha Jaycees Ten Outstanding Young Omahans (TOYO) Award For 76 years, the Jaycees have honored the most remarkable individuals in Omaha through the TOYO (Ten Outstanding Young Omahans) Awards. Those between…
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SPN interviews Nathan T Wright & Hillary Brown of Lava Row
So while I was in Des Moines the other day I had the opportunity to visit Lava Row, an awesome Des Moines social media firm doing some top notch work. In my interview with Nathan Wright and Hillary Brown I had the opportunity to talk with them about their company and some of the work…
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GoodTwin design site launch!
The long awaited launch by Adam Nielsen, formerly named BistoDesign, is now LIVE! Yes…the site has left the gate and man, can Omaha’s creative design community get any better! Check the site out here: GoodTwin Design And stay tuned for an in-depth follow up interview with Adam as well as a first look at his…
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Hordit.com beta invite codes!
Hordit.com another awesome Omaha startup, has sent Silicon Prairie News beta invite codes. To get one of these hot codes email Silicon Prairie News here with the subject line of “Hordit Beta Code” More to come on Hordit soon…
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SPN interviews Kyle Hoback
Kyle Hoback from Silicon Prairie News on Vimeo. Kyle is one of Omaha’s young entrepreneurs doing some exciting work. He was most recently a Senior Consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton before announcing his departure to London, yes he’s leaving Omaha…for now at least! Kyle also founded Omaha Nexus, a non-profit philanthropic organization that hosts benefit…
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SPN interviews Gary Vaynerchuk
Silicon Prairie News had the opportunity to interview WineLibrary.com’s Gary & AJ Vaynerchuk’s newest startup, PleaseDress.Me as well as talk in general about entrepreneurship. Check out the interview with Gary V here! [audio:https://spnewsnjt.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/SPN%20interviews%20GaryV.mp3] Everything we’ve heard about Gary is that he is the most real young entpreneur out there in the space today. He’s always…
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Coming soon!
Still to come yet this week… Tomorrow we’ll be interviewing the team from DOCCENTER, fresh from their visit to the DEMO Conference. (Don’t forget to vote for them here: DOCCENTER on Killerstartups.com). It will be exciting to get Todd & the team’s feedback from the experience of the conference as well as find out what’s…
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The future of technology
I was reviewing some of the clips from last week’s TechCrunch50 and Ron Conway had a quote I couldn’t pass by when asked what motivates him to continue working as an angel investor: “Meeting entrepreneurs who are inventing something is very very interesting. When you meet an entrepreneur you are talking to the future of…