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Prairie Moves: Catchfire Media hired two, Halo Institute covered and more
(Photo by BriYYZ on Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…
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Stacking Up: Hayneedle executive profile series starts Thursday, July 1
Over the past few years, Hayneedle has been stacking up on talent. The Omaha-founded and still 100 percent Omaha-based online retailer of home furnishings and lifestyle products…
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Our thoughts on the 2010 Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity
This past Friday, June 25, the Omaha World-Herald published an article focusing on Nebraska’s second to last ranking in a recently released report from the Kauffman Foundation: the Kauffman Index of Entrepreneurial Activity, 1996-2009. Titled Business startups lag, business reporter Ross Boettcher interviewed the author of the report, economics and finance professor Robert Fairli, as…
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Scott Belsky discusses Making Ideas Happen & Behance
In the weeks leading up to Big Omaha, I conducted an audio interview with Scott Belsky, founder and CEO of Behance, a New York-based company developing products and services for creative industries. Belsky shared information around the creation of the Behance Network, the world’s leading online platform for creative professionals, and The 99 Percent, Behance’s…