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PrairieCast video: VoterTide and the Fast Company ‘Most Innovative’
This week we were joined by two guests, old friend Chris Burns of West Des Moines-based Shift and PrairieCast first-timer Jimmy Winter of Omaha’s VoterTide. We discussed recent news related to VoterTide as well as Fast Company’s “Most Innovative” list which included two startups with Silicon Prairie ties, Dwolla and Zaarly. This week on the…
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Take the next step: Stay connected after the SPN Startup Job Crawl
One week has passed since Silicon Prairie News held Omaha’s first Startup Job Crawl, and if you were one of the more than 200 students to join our tour de startups, you probably walked away seeing where the potential lies in the local community for mentors, connections and potential employment. Now, it’s time to sift…
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Unconference ‘Awesome Camp’ set for March 2-3 in Lincoln
Awesome Camp, Lincoln’s answer to the unconference, will take place March 2-3 at downtown nightclub Red9 (322 S. 9th St.). Awesome Camp is described on its website as “a participant-driven unconference” at which “anyone and …
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Prairie Portrait: Kris Nessa of Cerner
Silicon Prairie News: As someone who works for a big corporation but who has the “heart of an entrepreneur,” what’s your view of the role large companies can play in sparking entrepreneurship and innovation? | Kris Nessa: Every company is or was a startup. Every company wants to grow, go public and makes lots of…
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Its ‘concept proved,’ Tikly rolls out new version with controls for users
Tikly, an online ticketing service in Des Moines, today is rolling out its custom web and ecommerce system, a new version that allows users to create ticketing events on their own. “The first chapter of Tikly was a ticketing service that we built out using a third party ecommerce system,” Emma Peterson, the 22-year-old founder…
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Kansas City startup EyeVerify sees opportunity in the whites of your eyes
You know how the adage goes: identity is in the eye of the phone holder. All right, maybe that’s not the exact turn of phrase. But Toby Rush hopes that becomes conventional wisdom in the near future. Rush is the founder and CEO of the startup EyeVerify, and his vision for the future of identity…