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16-year-old satisfies craving for school lunch menu app
A recent story in The Daily Nonpareil points out Thomas Jefferson High School sophomore Anthony Rea is not your average 16-year-old. While most teens are pushing their parents for a later curfew or asking for a car, Rea was figuring out how to make his school lunch menu and activity announcements more accessible through the…
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Think Big Partners embarks on ‘field trip’ with 10 Midwestern startups
At a time of year when winter-weary travelers flock to sun-splashed beaches for spring break, 10 Midwestern startups are embarking on a coastal excursion of their own. But there won’t be much of a “break” involved in this spring trip. Think Big Partners, the Kansas City …
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Prairie Portrait: Derek Jensen, senior at Iowa State University
What inspired you to start Resimplify? Derek Jensen: Designing is creating around reasoning, but the practice of web and app design has gained too much focus. In what I found as a problem when thinking about design lies my inspiration. I respected sites like A List Apart, Smashing Magazine and Six Revisions, but they all…
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Big Omaha 2012 tickets now on sale!
Big Omaha 2012 tickets are now on sale! We kick off today with the opportunity to purchase a new season pass, guaranteeing the purchaser a ticket to both of our premier events, Big Omaha 2012 and Thinc Iowa 2012. On Friday, we’ll open up sales of individual Big Omaha 2012 tickets. At the Silicon Prairie…
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Kauffman’s FastTrac programs aim to support entrepreneurial dream
The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has a group of programs under its FastTrac initiative that is all …
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Welcome Kim Foster to the Silicon Prairie News team
It’s with great excitement that we share our newest addition to the Silicon Prairie News team, Kim Foster! Kim comes to us with several years of experience in a business development capacity, most recently working with the AIM Institute. We are thrilled to have Kim’s deep customer relationships and sales skills as we continue building…