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Women’s Startup Lab is looking for their next class of women entrepreneurs
Women’s Startup Lab recently announced an open application period for their Silicon Valley Immersion Program, a two-week acceleration program that starts on September 17. The program is in search of brilliant women entrepreneurs who are interested in accelerating their leadership skills and business success. Women’s Startup Lab is the leading accelerator program for women entrepreneurs…
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Kansas City’s Red Nova Labs opens new engineering office in Denver
Kansas City-based technology company Red Nova Labs (RNL) has expanded their engineering team to include a second office in Denver. “Denver will be a great place to find more talented developers as we ramp up our tech hiring over the next year or so,” said Adam England, the company’s chief technology officer and veteran of…
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Big names in development coming to next month’s AIM HDC
AIM HDC (Heartland Developers Conference) is a 3-day software development event on September 6-8, 2017 for tech professionals, consisting of hands-on workshops, keynotes and other speakers, breakout sessions and networking events. Attendees learn from national industry experts plus regional and local leaders, who share the latest knowledge and demonstrate new techniques. Conference speakers hail from…
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Eliminate Zombies: Launch with 20 customers in sight
This is the first of a multi-part series authored by The Startup Collaborative co-founding team: The Death (or Evolution) of Startup Accelerators and Incubators as We Know Them! –– It astounds me when a want-to-be entrepreneur spends the better portion of a meeting talking about their solution. When asked, “Who is your buyer?” they stumble and…
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SPN checks in with The Startup Collaborative
The Startup Collaborative, a program of Greater Omaha Chamber, is working to radically improve the odds of startup success. The Omaha-based acellerator is doing great things, building and launching the next wave of startups in the community, and SPN wants to help champion their successes and innovations. Co-founders Erica Wassinger and Nathan Preheim have been…
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Should you register for an HDC workshop? Don’t Panic Labs weighs in
AIM HDC (Heartland Developers Conference) is a 3-day software development event on September 6-8, 2017 for tech professionals, consisting of hands-on workshops, keynotes and other speakers, breakout sessions and networking events. Attendees learn from national industry experts plus regional and local leaders, who share the latest knowledge and demonstrate new techniques. SPN caught up with Chad…
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Catch a ride to NMotion Demo Day on the OMA/LNK Startup Bus Presented by LPED and SPN
Silicon Prairie News, in cooperation with the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development and NMotion, is proud to announce the OMA/LNK Startup Bus to shuttle community supporters from Omaha to Lincoln for the NMotion Demo Day on Thursday, August 10th. SPN’s recent State of the Silicon Prairie Report recommended that the Lincoln and Omaha startup communities…
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WISRAN seeks to improve farm efficiencies
Farmers have to be as efficient as possible to help compensate for things that are harder to control. Small improvements in equipment or software can make a big difference in growers yields and their subsequent income. Sunnydale, Calif. startup WISRAN is looking to boost efficiency for farmers 2-5 percent. WISRAN is part of the inaugural…
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Lessons from Silicon Kiwi: How Silicon Prairie can encourage women leadership in agtech
By Lindy Nelson, founder and executive director of the Agri Women’s Development Trust For the first time in its 118 year history, a woman became the national president of industry group Federated Farmers of New Zealand. For New Zealand, this reflected the growing diversity of the country’s agricultural industry leaders. However, as pointed out by…
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Happy Boards digitizes corporate messaging
Displaying your corporate culture to employees and visitors is easier said than done. Des Moines company Happy Boards is looking to simplify the process of displaying custom messaging at offices and events. How Happy Boards works When web design agency Happy Medium moved to a new location in 2014, founder and CEO Katie Patterson was…