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Prairie Moves: Allied Strategy, Phenomblue, Dwolla & more
(Photo by IndigoValley 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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Stacking Up: Hayneedle executive profile series complete
Over the past few weeks, Andrea Ciurej brought us profiles of Hayneedle’s three recent additions to its executive team: president and CEO Carter Cast, chief marketing officer Ash ElDifraw, and chief merchandising officer Jason Goldberger. When we approached this series – titled Stacking Up in reference to the high level of talent and experience added…
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Sunday Video: The World Tri Episode 1: Meet Charlie Wittmack
On the first of this month, Des Moines attorney and adventurer Charlie Wittmack set off on an 11-month journey that’s taking him from the banks of the River Thames in England to the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Appropriately titled The World Tri, Wittmack is traveling 12,000 miles through 13 countries, first swimming, then…
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Weekly Startup Links: Ash Maurya, TED, PayPal, 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: Kathy Sierra talks with Gary Vaynerchuk at Gov 2.0 Expo
This week’s Sunday Video features Kathy Sierra’s conversation with Gary Vaynerchuk at the Gov 2.0 Expo this past May. Sierra worked as a game programmer, interaction designer, and learning specialist (Sun Microsystems, UCLA Extension) before creating the best-selling Head First series for O’Reilly Media. She was the creator of one of the largest software developer…
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Weekly Startup Links: Chris Dixon, Jeff Bezos, 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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Prairie Moves: Advent IP adds two, Smelly Puppy releases app & more
(Photo by Let Ideas Compete 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…
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Sunday Video: Niall Harbison on why he’s not moving to Silicon Valley
Niall Harbison is a Dublin, Ireland-based entrepreneur that I’ve followed for the past few years. I first found him through his video blog, NiallH.com,* where he published short videos with his opinions on social media and entrepreneurship. He dropped out of school at age 16 to become a professional chef and he traveled the world…
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Weekly Startup Links: Ash Maurya, VentureFizz, 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.