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Winter, Whitten teaming up to launch VoterTide in November
It’s nothing more than a splash page at the moment, but if I had to cast my vote for what will soon be unveiled by two Omaha entrepreneurs I’d say something interesting is in the works. Earlier this year, RockDex founder Jimmy Winter began applying his startup’s technology, a social media monitoring …
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First look at the new RockDex
As of today, the only details on the next version of RockDex have only been teased at by founder Jimmy Winter in the description he submitted in April for Cornstalks Demo Night: RockDex presents a high-level view of your artists’ online buzz and a comprehensive picture of growth and scale. Dig into actual conversations and…
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Watch Cornstalks Demo Night live — hashtag: #prairiedemo
We’ve set up shop at Creighton University’s Harper Center, where Cornstalks Demo Night presentations are set to kick off at about 7 p.m. We’ll be live-streaming the presentations here, so stay tuned for eight-minute pitches from eight Silicon Prairie startups …
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Cornstalks Demo Night tonight – Live stream at 7 p.m. (tune in here!)
A limited number of seats remain for tonight’s Cornstalks Demo Night. The event is being held inside Creighton University’s Harper Center and kicks off at 6 p.m. with an hour-long networking reception in…
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Cornstalks Demo Night companies and details (note: change of venue)
Nine companies are set to demonstrate their products to a crowd of around 70 people this Thursday, March 31, at Cornstalks, a monthly gathering for entrepreneurs starting or running high-growth businesses.
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Five Silicon Prairie startups at SXSW and how they fared
(Photo by Janae Weinbrenner of Imijfoto) Leading up to South by Southwest Interactive I wrote a post about five startups from the Silicon Prairie that I thought had a chance to break out at the five-day conference – “Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW.” With this post, I wasn’t predicting any…
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Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW
(Photo from Seth and Alexa Andrzejewski via Flickr.) South by Southwest Interactive isn’t a conference. It isn’t a summit. It isn’t a networking event. And it certainly isn’t a party. Nope, it’s all of those things, and because of that, it makes it one of the best places for a startup to launch or market…
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For his sixth year in a row, Jimmy Winter prepares to rock SXSW
(Left, Jimmy Winter at SXSW Music 2010 with celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Photo courtesy of Winter.) With South by Southwest Interactive fast approaching, Rockdex co-founder Jimmy Winter gave me insight into what to keep an eye out for when he and his team land in Austin, Texas in the coming week. For RockDex, a…
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Prairie Moves: RockDex, Smelly Puppy, Uppward & more
(Photo by Mark Michaelis via Flickr) 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,…
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Deadline Approaching: Invest Nebraska $50k Venture Competition
A quick reminder that if you’d like to enter your startup into Invest Nebraska Corporation’s second annual East-2-West New Venture Competition the deadline is November 8.