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Prairie Moves: Texas A&M football shows off its Elite Form technology
Lead Read: “12th Man TV Free Preview: Player Development Center” – Texas A&M’s director of sports performance shows off the Aggie’s new installation of Elite Form technology (above). Quotable: “We’ve found this problem on our campus, and we understand that others have it across the country, so we’d like to do something about it.” -…
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Vote Front Flip, Goodsmiths, Klink or Sporting Innovations for New Startup of the Year
One of the startups in the Silicon Prairie Awards category we’re highlighting today acquired 200,000 users in less than a year. Another accumulated more than $800,000 in inventory. But big numbers are only a small part of the equation for the four New Startup of the Year finalists. At our inaugural awards event on Aug.…
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Startup America holding contest to send startups to DEMO Fall 2012
The Startup America Partnership and several of its “Startup Regions” — including Startup Iowa, Startup Kansas, Startup Missouri and Startup Nebraska — are sponsoring a video pitch contest to send eight startups to present at DEMO Fall 2012 Oct. 1-3 in Santa Clara, Calif. Submissions for the contest are due by 4 p.m. CDT on…
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Lightbank leads way as SkyVu raises new seed funding
With the growing success of its free-to-play model, Omaha mobile games company SkyVu Entertainment reached profitability early this year and wasn’t actively seeking institutional investment. But that began to change in May, over the course of a couple of tweets. “We were in a comfy position to choose whether or not we needed to pursue…