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Ex-teachers look to sharpen focus of student feedback with ActiveGrade
It wasn’t long ago that Michal Eynon-Lynch (far left) and Riley Eynon-Lynch (near left) made their living as teachers, educating students on subjects like math and science, history and humanities. Now, the wife and husband are getting an education of their own — on bootstrapping a startup. The Eynon-Lynches, along with designer Dan Sweeney, make…
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Prairie Moves: Adam Coomes, Karissa Tomsen, Doug Sisk and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (one day late this week), 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,…
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Prairie Portrait: Tom Boozer of UMKC
Name: Tom Boozer | Title: Interim Associate Director of the Entrepreneurship Scholars Program, Institute for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Missouri Kansas City | Age: 45 City: Kansas City, Mo. | Silicon Prairie News: Early in your career you developed products for aircraft passenger cabins. What was one part of the cabin you…
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Project manager, website developer, social media advocate and more
We’re excited to bring you our 85th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions at Silicon Prairie News (that’s us!), Fusion Tree, FirstComp and Harvest Retail Marketing in …
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Props in 2011: Silicon Prairie startups earn recognition around the web
Here are seven Silicon Prairie companies and entrepreneurs that earned mentioned on 2011 end-of-year lists: SelectOut, a site founded by University of Nebraska–Lincoln student Calvin Pappas, was named No. 1 on The Kim Komando Show’s “Top 10 Cool Sites of 2011” list. Dwolla, the online cash transfer startup based in Des Moines, and Zaarly, a…