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Sunday Video: Chris Sacca on the new model of building startups
This week’s video features legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor Chris Sacca. Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, talks in this clip about the disappearance of the barriers to creativity, why he invests in something tangible rather than ideas and his thoughts on why mobile will continue to play such an increasing role. Sacca is an…
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Weekly Startup Links: Wired, For Entrepreneurs, and more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.
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Nebraska Film series starts Monday, August 9
As I mentioned in a post earlier today, over the next few weeks we’ll be highlighting Nebraska’s filmmaking community, specifically those working to make feature films for the big screen. To be honest, this industry is a bit foreign to us. Our primary focus at Silicon Prairie News is…
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Prairie Moves: GCommerce, 80/35, Eliason Media & Sojern
(Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post,…
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Sunday Video: Jason Fried explains why you can’t work at work
Interruptions are the sole distraction of creativity in the workplace, causing Corporate America to work longer hours outside of the office and often times, forcing work to be completed on the weekends. No matter how much coffee you drink or how much sleep you’ve acquired to prepare yourself for a productive work day, 37signals co-founder…
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Weekly Startup Links: Wired.com, Manylogue and more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.
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Sunday Video: Common Craft sells explanation
I always appreciate businesses that can clearly and concisely explain what they do. Arguably my favorite company on the web, Common Craft, does just that. In fact, their product is explanation, and they can help you explain your own product or service. Common Craft is a two-person company, a husband and wife duo based in…
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Weekly Startup Links: A Smart Bear, Steve Blank, and more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.
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Launching a top ten iPhone app: Gordon Whitten on Airport Remote
(This is a guest post by Gordon Whitten, founder and CEO of Sojern, Inc.) Lights are dim and shades drawn in the dev area at Sojern. Did’ja set up the release build config yet? Yep. Doing that now. Installing the provisioning profile… OK. Build and run… A few keystrokes, and there it is. Bright crystal…