Zaarly

  • Zaarly’s Fishback graces the cover of Entrepreneur Magazine

    In its final issue of 2011, Entrepreneur Magazine features Kansas City’s Bo Fishback of Zaarly on its cover for a story on “10 trends that will define opportunity next year.” Zaarly, a San Francisco-based startup that Fishback co-founded at Startup Weekend Los Angeles in April, is highlighted in the magazine’s second trend, collaborative commerce. “Collaborative…

  • Prairie Moves: Sojern, Annie Sorensen, Wade Arnold and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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…

  • Silicon Prairie Spooky: Startups, agencies celebrate Halloween

    Pumpkins, prairie dogs, Power Rangers, oh my! Here’s the rundown of Halloween hijinks in startups and agencies in the Silicon Prairie (which unfortunately didn’t contain any Power Rangers). – Bozell, an Omaha-based integrated marketing agency, created the Zombie Preparedness Center for its client, Westlake Ace Hardware. This one is listed first because it’s also the…

  • Prairie Moves: Nadine Anheier, Find & Replace, QuickCal and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (two days late this week), 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,…

  • Prairie Moves: Clay Wiese, Mike Roeder, Kaimi and more

    With our inaugural Thinc Iowa in the books, our staff time is freed up for some serious content production. Take this Prairie Moves, for example, it’s two weeks worth of goodness – links to funding news, product announcements, media mentions and more. Each time I open my Google Reader to grab the latest headlines from…

  • Thinc Iowa: The return of the startup T-shirt roundup

    If, as we posited in May, Big Omaha is like Paris Fashion Week — and at this point we see no grounds for questioning that claim — then it stands to reason that Thinc Iowa is akin to a runway show in Milan. Sure, Versace and Prada are replaced by Zaarly and Dwolla. But, still,…

  • Zaarly raises $14.1M Series A, adds former eBay exec Whitman to board

    Zaarly, the peer-to-peer marketplace that lets users offer to buy goods and services around them, has closed a $14.1 million Series A funding round, bringing its total funding raised to $15.1 million. Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers’ iFund and Sands Capital Ventures led the round. Also contributing were CMEA, Venture51, CrunchFund (founded by early Zaarly…

  • Big Omaha Backstage Pass – Bo Fishback: The moment

    “So I’ve been around so many startups that I’ve seen a lot of moments,” Fishback says. “You know, I’ve said many times to people from the idea someone has an idea to the time they start a company, it’s almost universally one year. I don’t know why. That’s just, like, law of averages or whatever.…

  • Prairie Moves: Chris Kollars, Zombie Preparedness Center, Fresk and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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…

  • Zaarly rolls out redesigned website, hints at ‘Zaarly Anywhere’

    Zaarly announced a redesigned website Monday, rolling out changes that its Kansas City-based CEO Bo Fishback said improve the entire user experience. Crediting user feedback in a company blog post, Fishback outlined the three major updates: ability to browse offers without logging in; redesigned browse map, realtime search and “my activity” …