March 7, 2012

  • Davidson, Grange team up to build mobile marketing platform Layeredi

    With a history of software consulting and entrepreneurship (think Tripleseat and, oh yes, Silicon Prairie News), Dusty Davidson, 31, is moving on to his next project: Layeredi. Still only four months old, Layeredi, short for Layered Innovations, is a platform for managing mobile marketing campaigns. Currently. “The long-term vision is to provide a suite of…

  • Prairie Portrait: C.J. Moore of Red Nova Labs

    Silicon Prairie News: As someone who’s been on both sides of the press release process — writing them and writing stories based on them — what are a few guidelines you follow for crafting an effective press release? | C.J. Moore: I look at press releases just like I look at a news story. You…

  • For the Love of Cities: YP Summit attendees share why they love Omaha

    Peter Kageyama closed the Feb. 29 Young Professionals Summit with his “For the Love of Cities” presentation, a keynote that provoked attendees to think about what creates points of pride in every city. In his talk, Kageyama provided examples of the love and emotional engagement that stem up organically in various …

  • Welcome to our new Prairie Portrait sponsor, Hudl

    One of the new series we kicked off for 2012 has proven to be among our most popular. Today, we are excited to announce that Prairie Portraits, which runs three times each week to showcase some of the less-recognizable …

  • Prairie Moves: Quadis Technologies, DocuTap, Scott Kubie and more

    Published Tuesdays (one day late this week) and Fridays, 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,…

  • PrairieCast Video: Bloom.com’s $5.4m Series A, SXSW preview

    This week Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Brian Waller and our own Danny Schreiber joined us to talk about Capricorn Investment Group’s $5 million investment into Omaha’s Bloom.com as well as to preview the Silicon Prairie region’s involvement in South by Southwest Interactive. Also, check out the video that Startup Weekend …