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Singly, co-founded by Iowa native, is acquired by Appcelerator
Singly, a San Francisco company co-founded by Cascade, Iowa, native and software guru Jeremie Miller (below, left), has been acquired by mobile app platform giant Appcelerator. The announcement came this morning in a press release and “self-interview” blog post by Appcelerator CEO Jeff Haynie …
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Singly’s APIs & IPAs tour to make Kansas City stop Wednesday
Singly, a San Francisco startup co-founded by Iowa resident Jermie Miller, is making a stop in the Silicon Prairie next week as part of its cross-country APIs & IPAs tour. “This is not about marketing, and it’s not about sales,” the event’s website states. “APIs & IPAs is focused on community. We want to support…
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Jeremie Miller sees tech taking small-town feel to global scale (Video)
As someone born, raised and still residing among the farms of rural Cascade, Iowa but running a tech startup based in San Francisco, Jeremie Miller splits his time between very different worlds. “It sort of it feels like I’m living two lives sometimes,” Miller said during his talk on Oct. 11 at Thinc Iowa. As…
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Jeremie Miller: Tech entrepreneur sprouts from Iowa farm roots
Jeremie Miller can trace the roots of his startup, Singly, back to a conversation in an Iowa farm field in 2010. He stood in that field — on the farm in Dubuque County where the movie Field of Dreams was filmed — talking with one of his eventual Singly co-founders about the untapped potential in…
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Frequent-flying Iowan Jeremie Miller to make short hop to Thinc Iowa
Jeremie Miller’s commute starts between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. That’s what time he rolls out of bed in his Cascade, Iowa home and gets in his car. He drives three hours to Chicago O’Hare International Airport, keeping his eyes open for deer and a Mountain Dew close at hand. By 7 a.m. (give or…
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Out and about by The Bay: A photo recap of SPN’s visit to San Francisco
Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but…
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Iowan’s startup Singly announces $7m Series A round
Singly has raised $7 million in a Series A round led by the Foundry Group, All Things D reported this morning. The startup, which …
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Watch Jeremie Miller present Singly at the Web 2.0 Summit
Videos like this, well, they just warm our little, Prairie-dwelling hearts. Within seconds of taking the stage to speak at the Web 2.0 Summit last month in San Francisco, Singly founder and Iowa resident Jeremie Miller gave a shout-out of sorts to his home state. “I live in Iowa,” he said, “and …
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Miller sharing Singly’s latest at Web 2.0 Summit — tune in at 4:40 p.m.
Singly co-founder and Cascade, Iowa resident Jeremie Miller will present the fruits of his company’s latest labors today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, and indications from both inside and outside the Singly camp are that Miller’s talk could mark an important step in the direction of how people manage personal data online.…
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With Midwest mindset, Miller builds on passion for communication
For Singly creator Jeremie Miller, a typical weekday may consist of a 7 a.m. jog through downtown San Francisco before meeting with a Silicon Valley CEO, researching the latest social media tools on the web, brainstorming with business partners at the Singly headquarters and cranking out several hours of computer code. Pretty impressive for a…