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September 2011

  • PrairieCast with David Graff of Hudl (Video)

    Episode 55: The one where we talk football and startups – This week on PrairieCast our guest is David Graff, CEO and co-founder of Hudl, the Lincoln-based sports technology venture that now provides video software to more than one third of all high school sports teams in the US. Graff is one of our most…

  • Twists, turns lead Ginkens and company to ideal position

    When Erin Ginkens opened the current chapter of her career five years ago by leaving a job to launch her own business venture, she did so with what she believed was a pretty good idea of how the story would play out. “I thought that I was going to market a billing program I had…

  • Innovation Chamber: A stack of aces

    This week I was discussing the need for Nebraska to rebrand itself with a friend, when we struck up an idea that I would like to float out to the Silicon Prairie News readers. Currently our economic development leaders and minds are focused on recruiting companies to the states within the Silicon Prairie. What if…

  • PrairieCast: Live at 2 p.m. with David Graff of Hudl

    As Hank Williams, Jr. has been known to say, “Are you ready for some startup technology related to football?!” OK, maybe that’s not what ol’ Hank says on Monday Night Football but it’s the topic of today’s PrairieCast as we welcome guest David Graff, CEO of Lincoln-based Hudl today at 2 p.m. CDT. We’ll be…

  • What Robert Reich’s talk at Drake means for entrepreneurs (Video)

    Robert Reich’s rescheduled speech at Drake University came at a fortuitous time. Reich, a political economist and the former Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton, was scheduled to visit Des Moines and Iowa City in February but had to reschedule on account of illness. So Reich, a professor at the University of California, Berkeley…

  • Prairie Moves: Deal Garden, Michael Gelphman, Sara Davidson and more

    What is Prairie Moves? – 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 Loosecubes of the Silicon Prairie

    Following John Meyer’s Tools of the Trade on Friday about Loosecubes, we saw Twitter chatter increase about who’s on the site, who signed up for it, who’s currently coworking and who will now be giving it a try. Curious to see the site’s traction in the region, I conducted a search of the areas within…

  • Thinking social again, Dwolla’s Dollar Thoughts looks to up its userbase

    Over the weekend, Dwolla co-founder Ben Milne and Entrepreneurial Technologies’ James Armstead created Dollar Thoughts, a website that features user-submitted short statements and allows visitors to vote each statement up or down and share on Facebook or Twitter. With the implementation …

  • The BarCamp Omaha photobooth that will make you laugh (Video)

    With the simple push of a bright red “push here” button, Justin Limoges Photography’s photobooth at BarCamp Omaha 2011 automatically took four consecutive pictures of the attendees standing in front of the camera. What came out of the 10-hour photo session, which began with the opening party on Friday and ran through the unconference on…

  • Proxibid unleashes ‘Superman,’ the largest product upgrade in its history

    It may not enable users to leap tall buildings in a single bound, but the bundle of upgrades — internally nicknamed “Project Superman” — announced today by Proxibid will provide what the company is touting as “the most user-friendly and secure online bidding experience available” and marks the largest product upgrade to date for Proxibid,…