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Prairie Moves: Dan Young, Hillary Brown, Chad Stansbury & more
(Photo by ActiveSteve via Flickr.) 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…
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Startups tune in at 8/7 Central – custom screenprinting & design
(Zach, left, and Ben Anderson of 8/7 Central. Photo courtesy of Eric Rowley/Juice.) Custom-designed T-shirts are a hot commodity among tech startups, and custom screenprinting and design studio 8/7 Central (87c) has positioned itself as the provider of choice for the local entrepreneurial community. “I’m not smart enough to be an engineer or developer, but…
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‘You’ve got Dwolla!’– Cash transfer startup rolls out email option
Dwolla founder Ben Milne calls it “a workaround for a problem we’ve been trying to solve for a few years,” I’d call it another easy way to transfer money at a rate of $0.25 per transaction. Cash transfer startup Dwolla…
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PrairieCast: Streaming live at 1:30 pm CST
Tune in at 1:30 p.m. today for the return of the Silicon Prairie News’ weekly podcast, PrairieCast. Now streaming with live video, PrairieCast is part of the lineup at Webcast One Live and will be available each week here on Silicon Prairie News. This week we feature discussion about new companies, new product launches, and…
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Michael Ferrari: ‘Mastering this idea of helping people reach their goals’
(Photo by Finovate Conferences via Flickr) For our article last week covering the launch of SmartyPig’s iPhone app, I asked SmartyPig co-founder Michael Ferrari five questions via email. His answers to the first four made it in our post, “SmartyPig just got smarter, now offering iPhone app,” but I held out his answer to the…
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Dwolla picking up steam: Banking industry hire & Windows Phone 7
More evidence that online cash transfer startup, Dwolla, is picking up steam: they announced today that Dan Young has joined the team as Operations Manager and they recently previewed a Windows Phone 7 mobile app. I tracked down Dwolla CEO and founder Ben Milne, which was easy to do since I hang out at their…
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Online Editor & Creative Director / Writer
We’re excited to bring you our thirty-ninth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from the Omaha World-Herald in Omaha and Trillix Group in Des Moines.