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Innovation Chamber: A stack of aces
This week I was discussing the need for Nebraska to rebrand itself with a friend, when we struck up an idea that I would like to float out to the Silicon Prairie News readers. Currently our economic development leaders and minds are focused on recruiting companies to the states within the Silicon Prairie. What if…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with David Graff of Hudl
As Hank Williams, Jr. has been known to say, “Are you ready for some startup technology related to football?!” OK, maybe that’s not what ol’ Hank says on Monday Night Football but it’s the topic of today’s PrairieCast as we welcome guest David Graff, CEO of Lincoln-based Hudl today at 2 p.m. CDT. We’ll be…
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What Robert Reich’s talk at Drake means for entrepreneurs (Video)
Robert Reich’s rescheduled speech at Drake University came at a fortuitous time. Reich, a political economist and the former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, was scheduled to visit Des Moines and Iowa City in February but had to reschedule on account of illness. So Reich, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley…
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The Loosecubes of the Silicon Prairie
Following John Meyer’s Tools of the Trade on Friday about Loosecubes, we saw Twitter chatter increase about who’s on the site, who signed up for it, who’s currently coworking and who will now be giving it a try. Curious to see the site’s traction in the region, I conducted a search of the areas within…