November 30, 2010

  • Announcing the ‘Silicon Prairie Annual Report’

    We’re very excited to announce our first-ever “Silicon Prairie Annual Report,” an annual look back at the previous year in the Silicon Prairie region, taking into account such metrics as company formations, product releases and developments, investment and M&A activity, and community building. The “Silicon Prairie Annual Report” will serve as a recorded benchmark for…

  • How does the Silicon Prairie become more attractive for venture capital?

    (Left: Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch interviews David Hornik of August Capital.) After reading a post by our friends at Silicon Florist looking at the same issue in Portland – “How does Portland become more attractive for venture capital investment?” – it inspired me to ask the same question of the Silicon Prairie community. Silicon Florist…

  • Prairie Moves: Jason Nielsen, Diana Robinson, Eric Miller & more

    Published every Tuesday, 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…

  • BarCamp Des Moines kicks off this Friday night, December 3rd

    Tickets are still available for BarCamp Des Moines 2010. Tickets will remain on sale at barcampdsm.com through Friday of this week, but only those purchased by 5 p.m. today will be guaranteed a T-shirt. BarCamp kicks off with an opening party at 7:30 p.m. this Friday night at the Des Moines Social Club (1408 Locust…