June 22, 2011

  • BIZ Luncheon Series: Transitioning from consulting to products (Video)

    Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds a monthly educational luncheon for entrepreneurs across Central Iowa. Called the “Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series,” each event features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high growth…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Shervin Pishevar of Menlo Ventures

    Today, we’re pleased to share with the you the fourth video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. In the video above, Shervin Pishevar, managing partner at Menlo Ventures and former chairman of Social Gaming Network, shares very personal stories from his childhood as an Iranian immigrant and life lessons…

  • View from the Fishbowl: Why?

    I was fascinated with Mike Liddy (technical co-founder of FDR) and his ability to dissect problems into subsets and attack them. He had a very simple process that was very effective. Mike would come into a meeting (invited or not) and just observe. I still remember the first time I ever met him; it was…

  • Prairie Moves: Dave Medema, Erik Antonson, Charise Flynn and more

    Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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, please…