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Citing tax credits, Nebraska Angels tab Kansas co. for latest investment
The Nebraska Angels, a consortium of individual angel investors, have made their first substantial investment in a non-Nebraska company. Yesterday, the group announced its participation alongside Kansas and California investment groups in a $1.8 million investment in Nitride Solutions, a Wichita, Kan.-based tech company. Though terms of the deal were not disclosed, Nebraska Angels board…
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Thinc Iowa is our next big thing
We’ve been hinting about Thinc Iowa for over three months now and I’m excited that our team has finally given me the go-ahead to spill the beans about what we’ve been working on. On October 20-21, we’re bringing an important national conversation to Des Moines. Over that day and a half, we’ll be gathering some…
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Lessing-Flynn announces Battle of the Brands II with startup region
A few months ago, Josh Fleming of Des Moines-based advertising agency Lessing-Flynn approached me and asked if we’d be interested in participating in this year’s Battle of the Brands, a bracket contest that pits the top brands in the state of Iowa against each other for votes. Fleming wasn’t interested in giving Silicon Prairie News…
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Sharing success with the West, Phenomblue opens Los Angeles office
Phenomblue has expanded to Los Angeles to accommodate its needs as a growing, seven-year-old digital design agency. “We’re hoping to bring the success of Omaha to the West,” said Joe Olsen, Phenomblue’s CEO and director of strategy. “If we can be half as successful [there], we’ll be in great shape.” The Los Angeles office will…
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Apps giant Cloud Sherpas acquires Overland Park’s Beloit Solutions
As Beloit Solutions Group sized up the challenge of scaling in recent months, the Overland Park, Kan.-based Google Apps partner came to a realization. “We were going to have some scale issues,” Beloit co-founder Tim Lockyear said by phone Wednesday, “and some gaps that were going to be a little difficult for us to compete…