August 15, 2014

  • Meet our eight-member Silicon Prairie Awards Selection Committee

    Meet our eight-member Silicon Prairie Awards Selection Committee

    As a community, you’ve done your part to tell us who you think should be crowned the winners of the 2014 Silicon Prairie Awards. But now it’s time to share who will make up the second part of our voting process. This year we’ve incorporated the votes of two judges from each section of our…

  • Hello Fearless hopes to teach women to balance their life, business

    Hello Fearless hopes to teach women to balance their life, business

    It took Sara Davidson two major startup burnouts to decide that something about her life needed to change. After moving to Kansas City to do marketing for Zaarly, Davidson says that she started to feel the strain of the lifestyle she’d become accustomed to.

  • Rails developer, digital designer, IT trainer and 39 more

    Every week, 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 are submitted by companies and gathered from public postings.

  • Amanda Morrow shares the tools she uses to design at Change

    Amanda Morrow shares the tools she uses to design at Change

    (Guest post by Amanda Morrow) Now, I’m not really one to obsess over tools. I try to take a pragmatic approach and focus more on what needs to be accomplished, then find the best tool for the task at hand. When others ask me what to use for designing apps or websites, I often suggest…

  • Startup Grind launches at The Port at Iowa Western Community College

    Startup Grind launches at The Port at Iowa Western Community College

    Startup Grind, a long-form Q&A session with an established startup founder, is coming to Council Bluffs. The Port, Iowa Western Community College’s entrepreneurial co-working space, is hosting the first event on Aug. 19. at 5:30 p.m, and Josh Powell and Nick Mauer, co-founders of MTRL, will be the first guests.