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Sunday Audio: This American Life takes an in-depth look at patents
As the title indicates, this week’s installment of our Sunday Video Series features a link to an audio clip instead of the regular embedded video format. In fact, I’ve done this once before, and when I did, it was from the same source, This American Life (TAL), a weekly radio show produced by Chicago Public…
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Weekly Wrap-Up: The show before the show
The countdown has hit its homestretch. Sure, said countdown only really started one week ago. But it seems like the anticipation has been building for at least 10 or 11 days, no? What we’re counting down to, of course, is the 100th edition of the Weekly Wrap-Up, which just so happens to coindcide with our…
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Prairie Moves: Gina Kovanda, Kyle King, Archrival and more
Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in one of our recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (one day 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…
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Guest Post: Incubators are less important than the people in them
I have heard a lot of discussion regarding incubators recently. There are many advocates, but I would offer that more important than the physical space for an incubator are the people who will go inside of it. I wanted to write a longer post rather than simply commenting on the PIE article because I wanted…
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These six startups will present at tonight’s Cornstalks Demo Night
At 6 p.m. tonight, the second Cornstalks Demo Night will kick off with a networking reception, followed by six product demos at 7 and then a post-networking reception at 9 to close out the evening. While Cornstalks, a monthly gather hosted by the Omaha Chamber for individuals interested in high-growth entrepreneurship, regularly meets at the…
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Could the Silicon Prairie use a slice of PIE? A look at the Portland incubator
One of our friends in the Pacific Northwest, Rick Turoczy of the blog Silicon Florist, is about to help serve up the second helping of the Portland Incubator Experiment (PIE) as co-founder. Modeled after TechStars – a Boulder, Co.-based startup accelerator that takes an equity stake in exchange for its three-month program involving seed funding,…
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View from the FishBowl – Negotiation Series: Don’t let it get personal
Can you imagine how the politicians could have negotiated on the appropriate “best thing” for the people if it didn’t get emotional? I know … I know … politics without emotion is some sort of an paradox. However, wouldn’t it be exceptional if this were the case? Just saying … My experience in the business…
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Feedback List now at 44 individuals and a new URL, feedbacklist.co
Three weeks ago, we released the first version of Silicon Prairie Feedback List in response to a post by William Fisher that addressed the importance of giving entrepreneurs honest and direct feedback. In addition, we were looking to fill a need we saw growing this past year – a place for entrepreneurs in the Silicon…