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Prairie Moves: Sumeet Jain, Abby Goltz, Emily Beckmann and more
What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Prairie Moves: Thursday edition, Nate Custard, Scriptito and more
With the help of the “Xzibit Yo Dawg” meme, welcome to the Thursday edition of Prairie Moves, just like Tuesday but published on Thursday. There’s an increase of startups, projects, people, events and overall activity in the Silicon Prairie that we’ve decided to move this series to twice a week (a small sign the region’s…
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Adam Coomes leaves Zaarly, says he’s ‘ready to rock it solo for once’
In following the regional tech scene over the past few years, one individual that’s stood out as a community leader and dedicated entrepreneur has been Adam Coomes. In 2006, Coomes co-founded what has become one of Kansas City’s most well-known startups, Infegy. In 2010, he and his business partner Justin Graves were named two of…
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Prairie Moves: Christopher New, Emma Peterson, Fresk and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Bo Fishback of Zaarly
Today we are thrilled to unveil the second video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. In the video above, Bo Fishback, co-founder and CEO of Zaarly, a proximity-based, real-time buyer powered-market which rolled out its platform on May 19 (six days after this talk), provided insight around the process…
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Zaarly adds Arrington to investor list, sets sights on seven core cities
Less than a week after its national rollout on May 19, Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. “Full disclosure,” Arrington said at the end of the May 23 interview, “I asked you if I could invest and we’re trying to work…
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Big Omaha – Bo Fishback: ‘Learning really fast is way more important than being an expert’
“You guys caught me at a weird time,” Bo Fishback said. “I am going to be super honest about what we are doing, where we are in the process … we are 9.5 weeks into a startup that we’re working on.” That was how Fishback, the CEO and co-founder of Zaarly, opened his presentation at…
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Zaarly app now live, offers being posted on the Silicon Prairie
When Zaarly co-founder and CEO Bo Fishback took the stage at last Friday’s Big Omaha, there was still a big question on attendees’ minds: when will the mobile app launch? The answer from Fishback at that time: Zaarly was waiting on Apple’s app store approval. Well, the approval has come and the app is out…