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August 2012

  • 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…

  • Art director, web developer, community builder and 53 more

    We’re excited to bring you our 114th Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions using our Job Board …

  • The Silicon Prairie Awards celebrate community, so bring your team

    The Silicon Prairie Awards event is less than three weeks away. And with anticipation building for who will take home the 12 “Analogs,” now is the time to make sure you’ve secured a ticket. The event begins at 6 p.m. on August 30. Taking place at the Joslyn Art Museum, it opens and closes with…

  • Every startup has benefits

    (Guest post by Tim Guenther.) Designing and implementing a benefits package can be difficult and costly for startups. Let’s face it, most startups are willing to take on something that’s difficult, but being costly is something we can’t all do. Most large businesses offer benefits such as health, life, and disability insurance plus other perks…

  • IdeaMensch founder discusses his company, 48-state journey (Video)

    The usual M.O. for the IdeaMensch team this summer has been to run the spotlight as other entrepreneurs have served as stars of the show. But last week during a visit to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., IdeaMensch founder Mario Schulzke took center stage for 45 minutes to tell the story…

  • A (belated) midyear look at the “10 Silicon Prairie startups to watch”

    One counts McDonald’s among its account holders, another carries recognition from the SXSW Interactive Awards and another had its product featured on the PBS News Hour. Seven months ago, none of these milestones had been achieved, but we’ve seen quick progress and achievements. In January, I presented a list of 10 Silicon Prairie companies that…

  • Wednesday Whimsy: Bonus check? Nah, I’ll just jump from a plane.

    It’s not uncommon for people of the entrepreneurial set to pepper conversations with well-worn phrases like “taking the leap” into entrepreneurial venture or viewing a business “from 30,000 feet.” But at one Omaha company, those tired expressions have taken on new life. National Media Brands, a young business that makes products to help …

  • Handmark founder Augie Grasis reflects on life, work in KC (Video)

    Silicon Prairie News has occasionally chronicled the work of Kansas City, Mo. application developer Handmark and regularly reports on the exploits of Handmark’s social media app spinoff, OneLouder. (In fact, we published a story on OneLouder’s latest offering, Slices, just last week.) We’ve had less frequent opportunity to report on the man …

  • NUtech Ventures adds two, announces new accelerator program

    NUtech Ventures, the nonprofit company that helps commercialize new technology and intellectual property developed inside the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, has added a full-time entrepreneur in residence and part-time fellow to its staff and plans to launch a new startup mentorship and …

  • Prairie Portrait: Sue Thaden of Client Resources Inc.

    Silicon Prairie News: You founded CRi in 1999. What are you most proud of in regard to the business you’ve built in the last 13 years? Sue Thaden: It really has been the people along the way, the teammates and clients that we’ve been able to work with and the impact we’ve all had on…