Michael Stacy

  • Professor, former SPN editor build a business journalism startup

    On any given day, there’s a lot of hustle and bustle that takes place in Lee Hills Hall, the home of the Columbia Missourian newspaper, a publication that has served the …

  • We’re going big!

    We have very exciting news to share with the Silicon Prairie community. But before we get into the news, I’d like to take a few moments to reflect on how we got to where we are today. If you rewind four years and five months, you arrive at the point when Silicon Prairie News went…

  • Summit panels focus on startups and ‘studentpreneurs’ (Video)

    At this year’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, one of the three breakout tracks focused on startups, involving five entrepreneurs from a variety of industries. Videos from the track are now available (below) and feature SPN’s own Danny Schreiber and Michael Stacy as moderators. …

  • PrairieCast Video: Pipeline Innovator of the Year, the Gigabit Challenge

    This week on PrairieCast, we’re joined by Marco Santana, The Des Moines Register’s new technology and startup reporter, as well as our own Michael Stacy. We talked through all the news and notes from Pipeline’s Innovator of the Year festivities and looked back on the Gigabit Challenge to discuss what it means to the region.…

  • Watch live: PrairieCast at 2 p.m. with Marco Santana and Michael Stacy

    Tune in today at 2 p.m. for Episode 72 of PrairieCast streaming live from Des Moines. We’ll be joined by Marco Santana, the new Des Moines Register startup and technology reporter, and our own Michael Stacy. We’ll be talking about the Pipeline Innovator of the Year …

  • PrairieCast Video: Bloom.com’s 100K members, SmartyPig’s new president

    This week on PrairieCast, the panel’s topic list included news from social beauty product engine Bloom.com and the social savings platform SmartyPig, the announcement of two statewide events in Iowa (Startup Fair and i2iowa) and a look at Sarah Lacy’s new venture PandoDaily. This week’s guests: Emma Peterson of Tikly, Sam DuRegger …

  • Watch PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with Peterson, DuRegger and Stacy

    Join us at 2 p.m. today for Episode 70 of PrairieCast with guests Sam DuRegger of Dwolla, Emma Peterson of Tikly and our own Silicon Prairie News editor, Michael Stacy. We’ll talk about new events announced here in Iowa, a big milestone for Bloom.com, former Big Omaha speaker Sarah Lacy’s new venture and more. While…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m Tuesday with Emma Peterson, Sam DuRegger and Michael Stacy

    Join us at 2 p.m. Tuesday for Episode 70 of PrairieCast with guests Sam DuRegger of Dwolla, Emma Peterson of Tikly and our own Silicon Prairie News editor, Michael Stacy. We’ll talk about new events announced here in Iowa, a big milestone for Bloom.com, former Big Omaha speaker Sarah Lacy’s new venture and more. Did…

  • Weekly Wrap-Up: f8 was great, but f9 was devine

    With the trio of typical Weekly Wrap-Up hosts — Jeff, Dusty and Danny — scattered to the four winds — or Chicago, Lincoln and Boston, respectively — today, Brittany and I were left to tackle WWU episode No. 107. And since Facebook made such a splash with its f8 announcements on Thursday, we decided to…

  • PrairieCast with Rush Nigut and Michael Stacy (Video)

    This week West Des Moines attorney Rush Nigut, founder of NotifyWorks joined us in studio and Michael Stacy, Silicon Prairie News editor, skyped in from Omaha. We also put out an offer to startups far and wide to drop off their swag for the PrairieCast set. If you have something fun or funky (nothing with…