Aviture and its co-founder Mark Griffis were featured in March’s issue of Omaha Magazine.
Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read over the last week.
Iowa
- Sculpt’s Eric Bailey shares some thoughts on naming and finding inspiration. — Medium
- Along with a handful of other Iowans, Ryan Martinez, an intern at Tri-State Integrated Solutions in Sioux City, Iowa and Morningside College student, traveled to Truckee, Calif. to participate in the first Tahoe Startup Weekend earlier this month. Martinez was part of the team ClockWork—a mobile app to help employers track their employees—that placed second. — Reno Gazette-Journal
- The Sioux City Growth Organization named recently launched Pushlee the city’s best startup of 2014 during its annual Innovation Market. — KTIV
- TelePharm founder Roby Miller shares his thoughts on Gov. Terry Branstad’s “Connect Every Iowan Act” and the importance of broadband connectivity for startups in Iowa. — Iowa City Press-Citizen
Kansas City
- By all accounts, it looks like EyeVerify is a success. — Kansas City Star
- Big Omaha 2013 speaker and Kauffman Foundation senior fellow Diana Kander has put her book, “All In Startup,” on Indiegogo. With 45 days to go, she’s already passed her $10,000 goal and hopes to hit her stretch goal of $30,000. Look for our chat with her later this week. — Indiegogo
- A lot of love for 1 Million Cups and its leading men, Nate Olson and Cameron Cushman. A lot of other Silicon Prairie startups and faces, as well. — The New York Times
- Adknowledge snags ‘Giant’ acquisition with LA video firm. — Kansas City Business Journal
Nebraska
- Aviture’s pivot from big corporations to big data — Omaha Magazine
- Opendorse didn’t make the trip to SXSW but still gets name dropped there. — Forbes
- Travefy’s David Chait has advice for breaking through the online noise to get customers. — Entrepreneur.com
- Local Houston TV station picks out Travefy as one of the best group travel sites — KTRK
- MindMixer thinks governments and citizens alike will benefits from having an online platform to engage. —MindMixer blog
- PaySafe has some tips on buying used farm equipment… if you need that sort of thing. — PaySafe
- Survey says more than 85 percent of small businesses in Nebraska use broadband. — Lincoln Journal Star
SPN’s most read stories from last week
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