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charity: water founder Scott Harrison to speak at Big Kansas City!
In less than six weeks, Hangar 9 will transform from an aircraft storage to our conference home, March 27-28. Today, we’re revealing three more speakers who will join us in this special space including Scott Harrison, one of our most memorable Big Series presenters. If you haven’t purchased your ticket, make sure to do so…
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Creating a collaborative culture
(Guest post by Joe Petsick.) The word is thrown around rather frequently in the world of startup businesses, and is largely regarded as being pretty important, but at times, I’m not sure everyone defines it the same way when they process the word – culture. What is culture? For the purposes of this post, let’s…
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Proxibid’s Ryan Downs adds CEO to title, discusses vision with SPN
Ryan Downs didn’t have to wait long to celebrate his first milestone as Proxibid’s CEO. Proxibid, the Omaha company that runs an online marketplace for high-value and specialized assets, announced Oct. 1 that Downs, who came on board as president in August 2010, had become the company’s new CEO. With Downs’ move, Proxibid announced that…
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On entrepreneur tour, IdeaMensch finds variety, passion in Omaha
Four guys in a Honda Element rolled into Omaha on Friday afternoon, 31 days into a four-month, 48-state entrepreneur tour across the country. In some ways, their eastern Nebraska excursion was exactly like any of the 50 stops they’re making throughout the U.S. between early July and late October. In other ways, it had a…
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Hudl, Proxibid find common ground at Chamber event on innovation
For all the high marks Hudl has earned over the last half-decade — and the company, which has grown from 12 high school clients in 2008 to about two thirds of the high school football teams in the country this year, has had plenty of positive report cards — Hudl co-founder and chief product officer…
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Proxibid, Ben Vu among AIM Institute award recipients
Proxibid and Ben Vu, the CEO and co-founder of SkyVu Entertainment, highlighted a list of companies and individuals recognized Tuesday night during The AIM Institute’s 2012 Technology Celebration Awards. Handed out by the Omaha-based AIM Institute, the awards honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to the region’s information technology scene.…
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Prairie Moves: Miranda Smith, QRinkle, Bitmethod 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…
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Mobile media editor, .NET developer, sales executive and 32 more jobs
We’re excited to bring you our 90th Opportunities on the Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please contact Brittany Mascio …