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Grange, Davidson to speak Thursday at Cornstalks
John Grange and Silicon Prairie News’ own Dusty Davidson, co-founders of the mobile marketing startup Layeredi, will present Thursday at Cornstalks, a monthly forum for individuals interested in high-growth entrepreneurship. Grange and Davidson will tell the backstory of their relationship and founding of Layeredi, along with a discussion of their company’s clients and how they’ve…
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Layeredi teams up with Hurrdat, hires ex-Tripleseat designer
Layeredi, an Omaha mobile marketing startup co-founded by our own Dusty Davidson, has entered into a sales agreement with Hurrdat, a Lincoln social media marketing startup, that will allow the two companies to leverage each other’s strengths. …
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Davidson, Grange team up to build mobile marketing platform Layeredi
With a history of software consulting and entrepreneurship (think Tripleseat and, oh yes, Silicon Prairie News), Dusty Davidson, 31, is moving on to his next project: Layeredi. Still only four months old, Layeredi, short for Layered Innovations, is a platform for managing mobile marketing campaigns. Currently. “The long-term vision is to provide a suite of…
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More startups and students to join SPN Startup Job Crawl on Feb. 15
On Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 5-8 p.m. we’re bringing startups and students of all majors together for something beyond a typical career fair. If you haven’t registered for next Wednesday’s Silicon Prairie News Job Crawl, make sure to join the 130 students from Creighton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska-Omaha and other metro-area schools who…
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A photo recap from the SPN Meetup with Layered Innovations
The SPN Meetup with Layered Innovations (Layeredi) on Wednesday night stacked up all the right pieces for a great night of networking on the Prairie. The crowd proved steady as we welcomed more than 85 people throughout the night to House of Loom, a new downtown hotspot. At the meetup, there were group conversations of…
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Prairie Moves: Marq Manner, VoterTide, Kelsey Dempsey and more
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, please email …
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Weekly Wrap-Up: The one where Jeff prepares to make his biggest ask
Fall has, um, fallen here in Omaha. Sure, autumn is still technically a week away. But brisk weather had Jeff and Dusty all bundled up and buzzing about — what else? — the weather for episode No. 106 of the Weekly Wrap-Up, or the “first day of freezing cold” episode, as Dusty dubbed it. Although…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: The one after SPN won the kickball tournament
On account of some technical difficulties, our latest Weekly Wrap-Up video is hitting the site a tad later than normal. So we’ll put function over form here and eschew our usual attempts at WWU humor in favor of a more utilitarian introduction: Jeff and Dusty hosted. (Insert current events joke here.) It was our 105th…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: The 100th Episode
In a show that featured a cavalcade of cameos and non-stop nostalgia, the Weekly Wrap-Up celebrated its 100th episode Friday, live from the Silicon Prairie News third birthday bash. Admittedly, it’s taken us a little longer than we would have liked to post this video of the show, but, hey … sometimes that’s the price…