April 27, 2012

  • Help us welcome a founder, a chef and a journalist to Big Omaha

    We’re super excited to introduce to you to two more Big Omaha 2012 presenters and our emcee. Please help us welcome Sahil Lavingia, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most buzzed about startups, Gumroad, and Eddie Huang, the dynamic young chef and budding media personality behind …

  • NUtech Ventures hosting student entrepreneur boot camp May 14-18

    Nebraska students with an interest in entrepreneurship will have a chance to whip themselves into startup shape May 14-18 at the Bootcamp for Technology and Entrepreneurship put on by NUtech Ventures in Lincoln. Registration for the event is open now and continues through May 4. Billed as an intensive, week-long training course on what it…

  • Prairie Moves: David Ziemann, Soy Pals, Proxibid and more

    Published Tuesdays 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, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Prairie Portrait: Coty Beasley of Beasley Creative

    Silicon Prairie News: Can you explain what Brand Your Startup does and describe the motivation for that project? | Coty Beasley: BYS is a division of Beasley Creative that focuses on helping startups and small businesses get brand essentials. A critical factor in a new business’ success is often presentation. Working in a coworking space,…

  • The three daily Ps to achieving your goals

    (This is a guest post by Ryan Tinker.) Many people think about goals as big achievements 10 to 15 years away. That’s great, but that’s only half the battle. The other half is actually working – day in and day out – to complete those goals. I’d like to share 3 simple habits I’ve followed…

  • Summer internships, developer, social media advocate and more

    We’re excited to bring you our 101st Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions …

  • Join the SPN newsroom this summer as our editorial intern

    We’re looking for an ambitious journalist with an entrepreneurial bent and a love for tech news. Our focus is to tell the stories of the Silicon Prairie – a burgeoning startup community in and around Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City. Like the companies we cover, we’re a startup, too, building a new kind of…