Marcus Ross

  • Cousins’ Startup Weekend idea grabs Cards Against Humanity contest win

    Cousins Cara Heacock and Marcus Ross had a winning combination when they created Discount Salmon, a tabletop card game that won Tabletop Deathmatch. Last week, the pair were announced as the winners out of 500 entries for the game design competition put on by the makers of Cards Against Humanity, the hilariously dark, inappropriate version…

  • Prairie Moves: Josh Cramer, Marcus Ross, Randomnade and more

    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 post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • Prairie Moves: BitMethod hires two, Corn Finger previews mittens & more

    While keeping an eye on Twitter, company blogs, and press releases sent to info@siliconprairienews.com, we see quite a bit of movement on the Silicon Prairie. Although a majority of these pieces of information haven’t made their way to our blog in the past, we think it’s time we begin to spread the word about them.…

  • JustAPosition.org team wins first-ever G2IC

    Marcus Ross, Ryan Billington, and Jason Kirk, the team behind the idea JustAPosition.org, took home the top prize at the first-ever Government 2.0 Innovation Challenge hosted by Graffiti Tracker (GT). The competition, held Nov. 13-15, challenged its seven contestants, organized into five teams, to invent and develop a Gov 2.0 idea in a 48-hour period.…