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Truckily serves up food truck finder for foodies, marketing tools for trucks
For the fortunate few who can smell the delicious waft of food trucks miles away, you can stop reading. For everyone else, read on to find out about Truckily, your taste buds’ new best friend. The Kansas City startup’s app—available nationwide—helps foodies find and interact with local food trucks …
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MindMixer gets Bloomberg airtime, site requests around the world
The day after MindMixer this week announced its $4 million Series B round, its co-founder and CEO Nick Bowden sat down on Bloomberg TV to talk about his company’s product. “The Washington D.C. school district is using the tool to gather feedback from parents on a controversial issue of school closures,” Bowden told Bloomberg’s Pimm…
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Interactive designer, data analyst, web developer and 44 more
Every Friday, Silicon Prairie News presents opportunities in the region’s tech, startup and creative community. From a contract job to a co-founder role, these positions …
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Goodsmiths’ new Swipe app lets its online store owners sell offline
Ecommerce startup Goodsmiths today introduced Swipe, an app that allows its online shop owners to accept credit card payments offline while keeping their online inventory synced. “It’s a totally new product that honestly for us, for Goodsmiths, it’s going to disrupt the craft fairs, art shows, farmers’ markets …
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“Hosting for designers” startup Flywheel lands funding, opens beta
Flywheel, the Omaha startup on a mission to make web hosting easy for designers, is in month two of its private beta, with more than 150 design firms and freelancers using its product. “We’re a hosting company, but we also look at ourselves as a software company,” co-founder Rick Knudtson said. “We’re trying to solve…
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Grinnell English grad wins coding lessons, lands job as developer
For Paloma Velazquez, writing HTML is a pretty big shift from her previous writing experience. Last May she graduated from Grinnell College with degrees in English and political science. At the time, she was working as a communications coordinator for BitMethod with their app, Change. But after winning a two-year scholarship for Treehouse—a web development…