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PrairieCast: 1:30 pm Tues. with Andy Stoll & Stefan Hansen
Tune in tomorrow, Tuesday, March 1st at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 27 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Andy Stoll, a social entrepreneur and media producer working to revive the entrepreneurial community in areas of Cedar Rapids devasted by the 2008 floods and Stefan Hansen of…
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Zaarly turning ecommerce on its head, set to launch at SXSW (Video)
(Left, Bo Fishback presents Zaarly at Startup Weekend Los Angeles. Photo by Jim Alden via flickr.com/techfrog.) Over the course of three weeks, Zaarly will go from building a prototype and pitching Hollywood celebrity and startup investor Ashton Kutcher to aggresively launching at the tech industry’s largest conference, South by Southwest Interactive. If their quick turnaround…
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MindMixer raises $300k from Dundee Venture Capital
MindMixer, a Gov 2.0 startup focused on connecting a community’s constituents with its decision-makers, has announced a $300,000 round of funding from Omaha-based Dundee Venture Captial. It wasn’t too…
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Yves Behar: ‘Prototyping is the most important part’
For over an hour, renowned industrial design Yves Behar of San Francisco-based fuseproject spoke to attendees gathered for the Design Alliance Omaha (daOMA) speaker event this past Thursday, February 24th in the Joslyn Art Museum’s historic Witherspoon Concert Hall. In the opening of his talk, Behar recollected his entrance to the museum earlier that day…
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Events: KC Launch Party, Dwolla Meetup, Pitch & Grow and More
The week ahead might just be the busiest week of events we’ve seen in a long while, and moreover, it’s filled with a handful of quality startup-focused events. We’re, of course, very excited about the first event on this week’s calendar, the Silicon Prairie News – Kansas City Launch Party, and we hope to see…