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More on Hidajat’s charity: water campaign – interview with father
Yesterday, we posted about Nathan Hidajat, a second grader in Ames, Iowa who gave up his 8th birthday in a fundraising effort to help charity: water, a charity that works to provide clean drinking water to people around the world who don’t have access to it. Nathan decided to give up his birthday after seeing…
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The MeNetwork putting $500k to work, launching in Omaha tomorrow
This past December I received a tip in my inbox from Vince Stanco, an investor and advisor of a startup with significant Omaha ties: “Tip: The MeNetwork lauched this past summer in Denver followed by San Francisco in early November. We will be launching in Omaha in January! Happy to enhance the tip. Give me…
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Eliason & Rosol launch Craft.ly – Handmade goods meet group buying
A new take on online group buying opened beta sign ups today. The website, Craft.ly, is a service aimed exclusively at the “handmade goods” market. James Eliason, also of Eliason Media and Uppward, approached cofounder Levi Rosol, also of ScoreYard and a Silicon Prairie News contributor, with the idea after learning of it through his…
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Thanks to BrownWinick, our RSS sponsor
It’s no secret that a lot of our work at Silicon Prairie News is backed by sponsorships from companies and individuals around the country who believe in our vision of building community and elevating the Silicon Prairie region as a hub of entrepreneurship and innovation.
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Help us welcome our Spring Content & Event Intern, Brittany Mascio
When we put out our call this past December for a “Daredevil Intern” for these next four months, we received an awesome response, both in number of applicants received and quality of applicants. One in particular showed she was most fit for the job, even giving us a pretty convincing opening line in her cover…
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The making of Secret Penguin’s awesome About page (Video)
At the start of the 2011, the four-person team of Secret Penguin, a youth branding agency rooted in the skateboard, music and youth cultures, launched a redesigned website for themselves. Overall, it was a nice new…