November 27, 2012

  • Prairie Moves: National press sheds light on region’s startup community

    Lead Read: “Tech Start-Ups Find a Home on the Prairie” – The New York Times was among four national outlets to write about Silicon Prairie startups in recent days. CNN Money, MSN Business on Main and Mashable were the others. | Quotable: “But investors typically assume that there is a market leader and they can’t…

  • Social Money reveals new product, deal with Bancorp

    Social Money today announced it’s preparing for the launch of a new product, CorePro, with a new partner, The Bancorp, Inc., the holding company behind a financial firm that offers banking services and products. CorePro is a savings account …

  • Hello Holiday co-founders to speak Thursday at Cornstalks

    Megan Hunt and Sarah Lorsung Tvrdik, the co-founders of Omaha-based Hello Holiday, will present Thursday evening at Cornstalks, a monthly event the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce puts on for people interested in high-growth entrepreneurship. Cornstalks is held at Silicon Prairie News headquarters (1111 North 13th Street, Suite 208). Things will get underway Thursday at…

  • Des Moines Startup Drinks welcomes new organizers, rotating venues

    Des Moines Startup Drinks is an informal monthly gathering of people interested in the Des Moines startup community that I’ve had the opportunity to help organize over the last few years. We guarantee there will be no agenda or speakers and that the first drink is on us. It’s part of a larger framework that…

  • Join the teams from Silicon Prairie News and Hudl for a tailgate Dec. 6

    We are tag-teaming an indoor tailgate with Hudl and inviting the local startup community to join us. Clear space on your schedule for our meetup at Brix & Stone Gastropub in Lincoln from 5-6:30 p.m. on Dec. 6. That night, the Creighton men’s basketball team will take on Nebraska in Lincoln. And whether you’re a…

  • Idan Cohen’s looking to push the pace of television innovation (Video)

    With a nod to graphs that illustrated sharply declining music industry revenues and plummeting newspaper circulation figures, Idan Cohen established what’s at stake in the television industry. “We’ve seen what happens actually when internet takes over an industry,” Cohen said Oct. 11 during his talk at Thinc Iowa 2012. “It tends to blow up …