July 22, 2010

  • PrairieCast: Aayush Phumbhra of textbook rental website Chegg

    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.…

  • Operations Lead, Software Engineers & .NET Web Developer

    We’re excited to bring you our twenty-first Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Pongr in Des Moines, Far Reach Technologies in Cedar Falls, Iowa, Sojern in Omaha, and…

  • Launching a top ten iPhone app: Gordon Whitten on Airport Remote

    (This is a guest post by Gordon Whitten, founder and CEO of Sojern, Inc.) Lights are dim and shades drawn in the dev area at Sojern. Did’ja set up the release build config yet? Yep. Doing that now. Installing the provisioning profile… OK. Build and run… A few keystrokes, and there it is. Bright crystal…

  • TalkAbroad connects U.S. college students with native speakers

    Foreign language study, which is central to Todd Nichols’ company, TalkAbroad, wasn’t central to his early college career. “I found the memorization of words and the grammar studies to be pretty dry,” said Nichols, an Omaha native. His outlook on learning a second language changed, however, when he studied abroad in Cuba and put what…