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Bloom.com expects to hit 100K members within six months of launch
By month’s end, social beauty store Bloom.com expects to hit an early member milestone: 100,000 signups. Bloom had about 20,000 members at the time of its national launch in August. “From really a standing start basically in August to 100,000 is fantastic,” Nick Hudson, Bloom.com’s chief marketing officer, said in an phone interview this week.…
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Code Year encourages coding newcomers to hack away in 2012
Long lines for the elliptical machine at a jam-packed gym have you rethinking that New Years resolution already? Well, the team at Codeacademy has an alternative idea. Codeacademy, a startup that provides free …
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SPN stacking up with Layeredi for Omaha meetup on January 18
From 5-8 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 18, join Silicon Prairie News for an evening of networking with a subtle nightlife flair at House of Loom for our SPN Omaha Meetup with Layered Innovations (Layeredi). We held our last Omaha meetup nearly one month ago and we’re back at it again in an effort to connect…
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Prairie Portrait: John Hobbs of What Cheer
Name: John Hobbs | Bio: Moved around the country growing up, but Omaha is home. Married with three cats, eight chickens and a baby on the way. | Title: Software Developer | Age: 26 | City: Omaha, Neb. | Silicon Prairie News: Your first dive into the startup world was as a developer at Town…
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MindPush app allows anonymous, proximity-based interaction
At a time when most social applications rely on networks of people that know each other and on content produced by users with distinguishable identities, Kansas City, Mo.-based JimmyGood Technology is taking an altogether different approach with its latest application, MindPush. What if all you know about someone else is that they’re …
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Welcome new sponsor: Microsoft BizSpark
We are very excited to kick off a new level of sponsorship today with Microsoft BizSpark! BizSpark is Microsoft’s startup-specific program designed to get software and server products directly in the hands of people building …
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PrairieCast with Tej Dhawan and Emma Peterson (Video)
Tej Dhawan of Startup City Des Moines and Emma Peterson of Tikly were our guests today on PrairieCast where we talked about Shannon Thomas and Kenny Younger’s Startup Weekend Love Story, RecBob’s Startup Weekend “launch” in Cedar Rapids and Dusty Reynolds’ question, “can entrepreneurship be taught?” We also looked back at the …