March 1, 2011

  • Prairie Moves: Jordan Lampe, Luke Amdor, Cat Rocketship & More

    (Photo by Ben Gallagher 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,…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Tony Hsieh of ‘Delivering Happiness’& Zappos

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the last presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of the New York Times bestseller “Delivering Happiness”. When Tony confirmed that he’d be able to make Big Omaha 2010, we all knew we were in for…

  • PrairieCast Live Stream: 1:30 pm. with Andy Stoll & Stefan Hansen

    Tune in today 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 Fresk Interactive who recently…

  • Des Moines Business Record announces its 2011 ‘Forty Under 40’

    The Des Moines Business Record has announced its annual class of “Forty under 40,” identifying a group young leaders making…

  • Five and Fifty unveils its ‘instant Groupon’ at LAUNCH (Video)

    (Chris Routh and Ben Tyson of Five and Fifty presenting at LAUNCH Conference on February 23rd. Photo by Ken Yeung via Flickr.) There’s a new deal in town and it’s called Five and Fifty, a Kansas City startup that provides businesses a quick and easy way to create a minimum 50% off deal that last…