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August 2012

  • Blogglebeans uses animated world to help keep grandparents connected

    One of the greatest challenges grandparents face is keeping in touch with their grandchildren as they age and get busier with school, sports and other activities. Betsy Perez aims to overcome that challenge with Blogglebeans, an interactive experience that allows grandparents and grandchildren to connect via an animated world. Grandparents …

  • Vote Bloom, Dwolla, Hatchlings or SkyVu for Consumer Startup of the Year

    Half of the finalists for Consumer Startup of the Year are gaming companies, but the four companies’ performances over the past year suggest none of them were playing around. At our inaugural Silicon Prairie Awards event on Aug. 30, one these four finalists will be crowned Consumer Startup of the Year. In anticipation of that…

  • Student startup BlabFeed aims to make waits worthwhile with ads

    The grocery store check-out line. The movie theatre box office queue. The dentist office waiting room. Where most people find only interminable waits, Keith Fix found opportunity. “How do you get people (in those places) to forget that they’re waiting?” Fix said in a phone interview last week. “Well, you fill up that time with…

  • Vote Hudl, LockPath, MindMixer or RareWire for B2B Startup of the Year

    Our four B2B Startup of the Year finalists have clients that range from city halls to NFL teams. But whether their users were analyzing a new city project or the most recent game film, these startups all took pages out of the right playbook, as each saw notable growth this past year. At our inaugural…

  • With Better Nest, Rodrigo Neri enhances Twitter.com

    Rodrigo Neri, creator of the MyHomework app, on Tuesday released a side project he calls Better Nest, a Chrome and Firefox extension that adds features, such as a recent follower list, to the current Twitter.com layout. “I’ve tried all kinds of Twitter clients for my Mac and didn’t find one that really satisfied me,” Neri…

  • Pipeline opens application process for 2013 entrepreneurial fellowship

    Pipeline, a Kansas City, Kan.-based regional entrepreneurial fellowship, today opened the application process for entrepreneurs interested in being part of the program’s 2013 class. A year-long program highlighted by intensive, three-day modules each quarter and an Innovator of The Year event in January, Pipeline takes entrepreneurs from from Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska and seeks to…

  • Thinc Iowa 2012 tickets now on sale!

    Join us in Des Moines, October 9-11, for our two and a half day conference on innovation and entrepreneurship. With more than a dozen nationally recognized speakers and hundreds of attendees coming in from across the country, Thinc Iowa brings connections, collaborations and celebrations. Our season ticket holders have already claimed …

  • MacPractice “going like gangbusters” building health care software

    In just eight years, MacPractice has gone from co-founder Patrick Clyne’s basement to planning for a $15 million, seven-story building in downtown Lincoln. Founded in May 2004, the company now earns $15 million in annual revenue from its practice management software for health care providers — physicians, dentists …

  • Prairie Moves: Texas A&M football shows off its Elite Form technology

    Lead Read: “12th Man TV Free Preview: Player Development Center” – Texas A&M’s director of sports performance shows off the Aggie’s new installation of Elite Form technology (above). Quotable: “We’ve found this problem on our campus, and we understand that others have it across the country, so we’d like to do something about it.” -…

  • Vote Front Flip, Goodsmiths, Klink or Sporting Innovations for New Startup of the Year

    One of the startups in the Silicon Prairie Awards category we’re highlighting today acquired 200,000 users in less than a year. Another accumulated more than $800,000 in inventory. But big numbers are only a small part of the equation for the four New Startup of the Year finalists. At our inaugural awards event on Aug.…