February 26, 2013

  • Register rolls out new series on Iowa’s startup communities

    The Des Moines Register on Sunday published six stories to kick off its new “Starting Up Iowa” series that focuses on startup communities throughout the state of Iowa. The first package of stories took a close look at a northeast Iowa startup community defined by Waterloo and Cedar Falls. “The Cedar Valley has some key…

  • KC event that kicks off Friday gives teams 48 hours to design a service

    A competition focused on the emerging field of service design kicks off in Kansas City on Friday. The Kansas City Service Jam, the local iteration of the Global Service Jam, begins Friday at Red Nova Labs before moving to the Google Fiber Space on Saturday and Sunday. The event starts with the unveiling of an…

  • Scenes from our Silicon Prairie Expat Meetup in San Francisco

    I arrived back in Omaha, aka the “Winter Tundra,” Friday afternoon, returning from the beautiful weather of San Francisco, fresh off a few days visiting one of the world’s leading startup communities. The goal of my solo three-day trip, which revolved around hosting a Silicon Prairie Expat Meetup on Thursday, was to strengthen existing relationships…

  • Grad student, Hudl developer team up to launch group travel app

    Pulling together a hotel reservation, affordable flight and list of activities for a vacation can be daunting. Getting a whole group to agree on travel plans is an entirely different beast. David Chait, a Columbia University graduate student in New York, faced that problem when coordinating a trip for a friend’s bachelor party. “We were…

  • KCPT spotlights tech company cluster in Crossroads District (Video)

    Kansas City Public Television’s “The Local Show” recently put its cameras on the city’s startup community, featuring a neighborhood that’s become a popular spot for tech companies. “While tech companies have been popping up all across the metro, there’s a noticible cluster developing in the vicinity …