January 31, 2012

  • Meet the CoMo community. A startup tour of Columbia, Missouri

    I love Columbia, Mo. It’s vibrant and artsy. It’s highly educated. It’s full of opportunity and has the No. 4 ranked basketball team in the country (sorry … couldn’t resist). A few months ago, the community inspired me to write an article, “5 Advantages Of Small Town Entrepreneurial Living,” about why I choose to live…

  • OneLouder weather app 1Weather debuts to warm reviews (Video)

    In the midst of a particularly unpredictable Midwestern winter that’s seen the weather outside fluctuate from frightful to delightful in the blink of a meteorologist’s eye, it’s not entirely surprising to see a weather application receive a warm welcome. But the high marks for OneLouder’s latest application, 1Weather, appear to be based on more than…

  • States ‘starting up’ with Startup Fair and launch events (Video)

    In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of Startup America Partnership today, the four states of the Silicon Prairie will each be “started up” by day’s end. In December, StartupIowa launched, on Friday, Startup Nebraska became official, and today, Startup Kansas and Startup Missouri will hold events to kick off their efforts. Headquartered in Washington D.C.,…

  • Prairie Moves: Heath Gerlock, Moblico and Swappa

    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…

  • BarCamp debuts in Cedar Valley, Feb.3-4. Tickets on sale now

    After establishing a presence elsewhere in the state of Iowa, BarCamp will venture to Cedar Valley for the first time this weekend. The attendee-generated “un-conference” kicks off its inaugural festivities with a pre-party event on Friday night and morning-long breakout sessions starting at 9 a.m. Saturday. When BarCamp attendees arrive at …

  • Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Marco Santana and Michael Stacy

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 72 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We’ll be joined by Marco Santana, the new Des Moines Register startup and technology reporter, and our own Michael Stacy. We’ll be talking about the Pipeline Innovator of the Year …