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PrairieCast with Nate Becker and Danny Schreiber (Video)
This week on PrairieCast, we had Nate Becker from SHift and Uppward – in town for the week from Brooklyn, New York – as our first in-studio guest in the new configuration for the show. Additionally, Danny Schreiber, Silicon Prairie News’s managing editor Skyped in from Omaha. Discussed this week “Silicon Prairie Feedback List, Version…
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Kauffman Foundation unveils Startup Act, aims to spur economy
Days after releasing findings from a study that showed lagging job creation from new businesses, the Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today outlined a new initiative aimed at jump-starting startups and, in turn, the economy as a whole. (Image, left, from kauffman.org.) Kauffman president and CEO Carl Schramm and vice president of research…
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Scott Kubie asks: “What if we all asked what if a little more often?”
What if the Silicon Prairie was home to Twitter? Is that a crazy question? Quite possibly. Does it spark discussion? Most definitely. And that’s just what Scott Kubie (a.k.a. Scott Rocketship), a senior product designer at BitMethod, set out to do with the website “What if Des Moines…”. “I was halfway through my shower Monday…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Nate Becker
Today at 2 p.m. CDT we’re excited to have Nate Becker, the fourth and last member of the Uppward founding team to appear on PrairieCast, join us in our Des Moines studio for episode 47. Nate, who lives in Brooklyn, New York, works remotely with both Uppward and SHift. We’ll be talking about Dwolla founder…
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Innovation Chamber: Increasing the region’s population through college students (Part 2 of 3)
This is a post that builds off of my first post on migration – the Silicon Prairie needs to grow. I tell people that we need to focus on college students, and the immediate response is that I don’t want to hire college students for my business. And many college students are ultimately not ready…
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Steven Michael Kelly: The teacher, the baker, the iDROP maker
Steven Michael Kelly has quite the sweet tooth for innovation. And rightfully so. He’s the master chef behind The Educated Baker, a for-profit bakery with a social mission. And ironically enough, he is the mastermind of the iDROP, an iPhone application for diabetes management. The Educated Baker, Kelly’s primary project, is a for-profit wholesale bakery…