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  • Prairie Moves: Internet Solver, PeggyBank, Jordan Lampe and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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 email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…

  • Investment firm with Omaha ties contributes to Yammer’s $85m round

    Wednesday morning, we broke news that Omaha startup Bloom.com closed a $5.4m Series A round led by Capricorn Investment Group, an investment arm of eBay founding president Jeff Skoll and other entities. Capricorn’s co-founder and chief information officer is Stephen George, a native Nebraskan …

  • Capricorn’s Stephen George to speak at Cornstalks on Thursday

    Cornstalks returns to its regularly scheduled time this month with a meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday featuring Stephen George (left), the co-founder and chief investment officer of Capricorn Investment Group. The evening begins at with a cocktail and appetizer reception and continues with George’s presentation at 7 p.m. This month’s meeting takes place the night…

  • In Raikes School talk, Capricorn’s Uphoff outlines entrepreneurial traits

    Years ago, Barry Uphoff developed a survey to gauge whether a person is a good fit for a business opportunity. The survey got cut from the book he was contributing to at the time, “Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance.” But it came in handy Friday when Uphoff, a partner with Palo…