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Prairie Moves: Danny Lockard, Grain & Mortar, VoterTide and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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…
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How Techmeme could fuel growth of regional tech blogs (like this one)
On Thursday, our story on Dwolla’s new feature, “Instant,” yielded our highest traffic day ever, an important accomplishment to cap off a major year of growth for Silicon Prairie News. By itself, the traffic was cause for celebration, but more important to our team was how the traffic came about. It was the result …
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The KC Commons offers Kansas City area’s newest coworking spot
Overland Park, Kan. is home to a brand-new coworking space. The KC Commons, which occupies the old Ford dealership building, was renovated in 2001 after a fire. Andrew Stanley, who manages the space, hopes it can now be a productive place for Johnson County residents. KC Commons had its grand opening party over the weekend,…
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Startup Foundation pilot program ends
The eight-city “Startup Foundation” pilot program aimed at developing an institutional presence dedicated to startup communities in places like Des Moines ended …
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Jordan Lampe and Nathan T. Wright
Join us today at 2 p.m. for the last PrairieCast of 2011! Episode 67 will feature Dwolla’s Jordan Lampe and Lava Row’s Nathan T. Wright. We’ll be talking about Dwolla’s big announcement last week, Forbes.com’s roundup of startup scenes around the U.S., Sean Blanda’s guest post on pitching your startup to the media and more.…