July 26, 2011

  • PrairieCast with Willis Jackson (Video)

    Episode 48: The one were everything goes perfect – Our guest this week on PrairieCast was Willis Jackson, the other part of SPN’s contributer team in Kansas City. We talk with Willis about his new startup, ShownHome, his role as contributor Silicon Prairie Startup Digest, and the other current news out of the Kansas City…

  • Several Kansas City startups part of big second quarter for VC funding

    According to data collected by PricewaterhouseCoopers and the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), the second quarter saw $7.5 billion in venture capital deals nationwide, the highest single-quarter total …

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Willis Jackson

    PrairieCast is live today at 2 p.m CDT for Episode 48. Our guest is Willis Jackson, a Silicon Prairie News contributor in Kansas City, the curator of the Silicon Prairie Startup Digest and an entrepreneur who recently left his “day job” to put a full time effort into a new startup, ShownHome. Our discussion topics…

  • Innovation Chamber: Increasing the region’s population through immigration (Part 3 of 3)

    Omaha must become a more welcoming place to people who are not from here and people who are different – a solution to the provincial problem from Post One. A great bellwether for this problem is international immigrants. This is a key group not just as a bellwether but also because a high priority because…

  • Prairie Moves: Bryan Roth, Kaylin Brabec, Electric Pulp and more

    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, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…