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Prairie Moves: Josh Dreyer, Jeff Valder, Jonathan Sharp & 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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Prairie Moves: Josh Dreyer, Steve Gordon, Lava Row & more
(Photo by Tim Lindenbaum via Flickr.) Usually published every Tuesday, 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…
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Startup Weekend Omaha kicks off with ‘startup lessons learned’ talks
At 7 p.m. last night, Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off with three guest speakers addressing the subject “startup lessons learned.” These three talks are below: Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks (left), Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo.
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Jonathan Sharp on Omaha’s tech scene & appendTo’s distributed team
Jonathan Sharp, co-founder and president of appendTo, has a busy day ahead of him tomorrow. At 9 a.m. he’ll be delivering a keynote speech at Omaha’s Heartland Developer’s Conference. During the day he’ll log onto Skype to communicate with the rest of the appendTo team, which is located across the U.S. Then, sometime in the…
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AppendTo co-founders discuss rapid growth, distributed workforce
With a clever line of jQuery yesterday, appendTo co-founder and president Jonathan Sharp publicly welcomed the newest member to his company’s team. AppendTo, based out of Denver, is a consulting, training and support company for jQuery, the most popular of the JavaScript libraries. The company currently stands tall as the only major player in this…
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Co-founders Jonathan Sharp & Mike Hostetler tell the appendTo story
“It’s actually kind of fun looking back,” former freelance developer Jonathan Sharp remarked. “When I was first starting [Out West Media], I believe you asked me, ‘Where do you see yourself in five years?’ I was like, ‘Same thing.'” One year later, some things are still the same: Jonathan still lives in Plattsmouth, Nebraska, he…
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Where are they now? Creative Capital Pitch Session II contestants
This is the second of three posts with updates from our CCPS contestants. A few weeks ago, Dan Hoffman of Invest Nebraska, the organization that has sponsored our CCPS $1,000 prize, asked me for updates from our past contestants. Unable to provide them myself, I contacted the 26 past contestants with three questions: Where are…
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PR/Marketing Intern, Developer, and more
With our focus to cover our region’s entrepreneurs, innovators, and creatives, we hear not only about the cool things organizations are doing now but those that they hope to achieve in the future. To do so, they’ve expressed their need for talented individuals who “get it.” We told them that we think we have this…
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Local developer contributes to jQuery book, joins jQuery team
In my interview with Jonathan Sharp a few months ago, he mentioned he was currently contributing to a manual being written on jQuery, a fast and concise JavaScript Library which simplifies the JavaScript language. I received an email from him earlier this week with the news that it’s been published and is now on Amazon…