February 2, 2011

  • Lodo launches add-on to leverage info captured by OurCashFlow

    If you’re a user of Mint or a similar product, the latest move from Lodo Software, a provider of personal financial management (PFM) software for banks and credit unions, may sound familiar. At yesterday’s FinovateEurope conference in London, Lodo introduced the FI Dashboard, a cross-selling tool purpose-built to work with OurCashFlow, the company’s white-labeled Mint-like…

  • Special Series: ‘Talent and Innovation Initiative’ – Internship Bill

    (Editor’s Note: In this four-part series, Tom Chapman breaks down four bills that are a part of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s “Talent and Innovation Initiative.”) The Nebraska Internship Bill provides a matching grant to private, for-profit employers who add internship jobs that did not exist prior to the program. The goal of the program is…

  • DSM Daily prepares to serve up only locally-owned daily deals

    Another daily deal site, another local twist, and this time, literally. Two weeks ago, we covered the launch of Deal Garden, an Omaha-based daily deal site focused on college towns with a population of 50,000 to 200,000. Today, we’ve caught wind of a daily deal site that’s preparing to launch in Des Moines with a…

  • Wade Arnold and T8 Webware: From dorm room to board room

    When you walk into the HQ for T8 Webware and its sister companies at Barmuda Companies, you know you’ve reached the heart of the Cedar Valley’s innovation district. As Wade Arnold likes to say, “Some firms are on the cutting edge, we’re at the bleeding edge.” For Arnold, a gifted PHP and Adobe coder, that’s…

  • Blizzard not stopping bidding – ‘Business must go on,’ says Proxibid

    (Left: A JD 8230T Tractor up for auction on Proxibid, from proxibid.com) When you take a look at the auction model Proxibid has centered its business around – live-bidding online at real-live auctions – this week it couldn’t make any more sense. “Two dozen states are currently in the path of a major storm system,…

  • PrairieCast with guests Jordan Lampe & Nathan T. Wright (Video)

    PrairieCast is a live podcast, recorded weekly, featuring round table-style discussion of the top issues in startup culture and technology from across the Silicon Prairie region. Co-hosts Andy Brudtkuhl of 48Web and Geoff Wood of Silicon Prairie News were joined today by Jordan Lampe of Freestyle PR and Nathan T. Wright of Lava Row and…

  • AIM Tech Breakfast this Friday, Feb. 4th – ticket giveaway

    This Friday’s AIM Institute Technology Breakfast Seminar is sure to be an interesting one as the guest speaker is Matthew Monahan, CEO and co-founder of Inflection (co-founded with his brother, Brian Monahan). If you’re a TechCrunch reader, you may remember a September 2010 headline that caught the attention of many: “Inflection Raises $30 Million To…