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  • Startup Grind expands to Kansas City, announces first event Jan. 17

    Startup Grind, an entrepreneur fireside chat series started in Mountain View, Calif. in 2010, recently announced the creation of a Kansas City chapter and the details of the group’s first event. Described as a “community of founders, entrepreneurs, and business professionals looking to be inspired, educated and connected with the smartest startup minds,” the …

  • With Disruption Institute, KCITP aims to expand KC mobile talent pool

    Last year was a busy one for Michael Gelphman and Kansas City IT Professionals (KCITP), the grassroots group for Kansas City technology professionals that Gelphman …

  • Keyzio aims to eliminate hassle of selling a home

    A former Startup Weekend Kansas City team is looking to ease the process of buying and selling homes with Keyzio, a software platform that allows buyers and sellers to connect without the aid of a real estate agent or public listings. Founders Parker Hills, Dan Aycock and the Keyzio team took second place at Startup…

  • Ten Silicon Prairie startups to watch in 2013

    Eyes were on the Silicon Prairie in 2012 as the startup community in and around Kansas City, Omaha and Des Moines earned attention from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fast Company and other outlets. Startups like Dwolla, MindMixer and Hudl were mentioned in many of those stories, as their milestones have earned them…

  • RFP365 seeks saved time, resources on both ends of proposal process

    A Kansas City startup is aiming to make the request for proposal …

  • Paper explores assets, obstacles for KC entrepreneurial community

    The Kansas City area in the last half-decade has seen increases in entrepreneurial exits, funding for young companies and collective energy behind entrepreneurship, a paper released earlier this month asserts, but obstacles still stand in the way of Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community moving from “fragmented to collaborative.” The paper, “Entrepreneurial Community in Kansas City: From…

  • Des Moines startup, KC high-speed internet top year’s 10 biggest stories

    An Omaha startup signed a TV deal, a Columbia, Mo. startup went from Startup Weekend to Y Combinator in eight months and a Kansas City entrepreneur who sold his company for more than $125 million last year returned to found another startup and fund others. These are three of my picks for the year’s 10…

  • Growing Gratitude app aims to help users say “thank you” via video

    As presents and parties pile up at this time of year, the list of thank-you notes that need writing grows and grows, sometimes to unmanageable lengths. It’s with times like this in mind that Kansas City entrepreneur Amy Marin Carlson created Growing Gratitude, a mobile application for sending video thank-you notes. A beta version of…

  • We’re hiring editors in Des Moines and Kansas City

    Silicon Prairie News is excited to announce it’s expanding its editorial team, hiring editors in Des Moines and Kansas City. Four years ago, we began to cover the startup community of the Silicon Prairie — a region we define by its flagship cities of Omaha, Des Moines and Kansas City. Today, people far and wide…

  • Thanks for a great ride

    As I embarked on my first road trip to my first meetup on my first day at Silicon Prairie News, I tried to start my car. My car did not comply. The battery was dead, which posed a problem: I was in Omaha. The meetup was in Kansas City. That’s a long way to bike…