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CMO, software developer, designer, interns and more
We’re excited to bring you our 58th Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions with MindMixer, Xuba, Proxibid and Project Interfaith in Omaha, Bailey Lauerman in Omaha …
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Startup Weekend’s Fundle presses on
Earlier this week, I saw a tweet that Fundle, a startup building an app to split payments amongst friends for things like hotel rooms or wedding gifts, had applied to PayPal for access to their production API in order to “work w/ real money.” Interested to see how they had moved forward since their idea…
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CWS on the web: parking map, a look at history and more
It’s no longer the “Greatest Show On Dirt,” but the NCAA Men’s College World Series will make “History Happen Here” when the opening ceremonies kick off tonight. With this being the inaugural year at TD Ameritrade Park, the CWS will be a new experience – perhaps maybe even a new ballgame – for players, coaches…
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Victory: Emerging Terrain’s Phase II of Stored Potential moves forward
Many commuters travelling east on I-80 into downtown Omaha have most likely noticed the impressive artwork on the grain elevators to the north of the interstate. If you’re not familiar with the project, it’s called Stored Potential, and it spurred out of an idea to do something visionary with a location that many of us…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: Brittany’s debut edition
Regis and Kelly? Psshhtt. Lauer and Couric? Come on. Downs and Walters? Please. None of those notable television tandems have (or had) anything on Silicon Prairie News’ dynamic duo of Jeff Slobotski and Brittany Mascio. We learned that today when Jeff and Brittany combined forces for the first time on the WWU, in Brittany’s debut…
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Dwolla hits $1M a week in transactions, Iowa usage surpassed
Ten days ago, the day Dwolla launched GRID, which we called a “Facebook connect” for its payment network, the startup’s founder and CEO Ben Milne tweeted about the day’s activities: “Today is insane. No idea what else to say.” And later, in a screenshot, embedded above, he showed the hockey stick jump in site traffic.…