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  • Prairie Moves: ‘Software is eating the world – and will help to feed it’

    Lead Read “Software Is Eating the World – And Will Help to Feed It” – Andreessen Horowitz partner John O’Farrell blogs about his firm’s investment in Solum, a Mountain View, Calif.-based ag-tech startup that has plans to open a lab in Ames, Iowa. Quotable: “Anyone on a social network can say, ‘Well I want a…

  • Prairie Moves: NPR Morning Edition highlights AgLocal

    Lead Read: “App Will Match Farmers With Meat Distributors” – The pre-launch buzz around AgLocal continues as it gets attention from NPR Morning Edition. Quotable: “We’d go to 37 Signals forums and …

  • Sunday Video: Embrace the upsides of failure

    Usually our Sunday Videos have an inspiring message, and just because this this one has failure written all over it (literally), don’t think we’re straying from that theme. “You are constantly failing as a startup. It’s how quickly you rebound from that failure that might lead to success,” said David Tisch, general manager of TechStars…

  • Weekly Startup Links: ‘Stop claiming you’re profitable’ 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.

  • Prairie Moves: VinSolutions sold to AutoTrader.com for nearly $135m

    Lead Read: “Details emerge: VinSolutions sale price was $135M” – Kansas City Business Journal’s Alyson Raletz searched the recent IPO filing of AutoTrader.com to find what it paid in May 2011 for Overland Park-based VinSolutions. Quotable: ” ‘Kansas City needs …’ A tech-startup success story. Something that starts here and stays here. It will happen.”…

  • Do what you do best

    (Guest post by Michael Ferrari.) Sure the idea was mine, but to bring my idea to life, I needed help. This may or may not hold true for everyone starting a company. And more power to you, if you can design, build and launch your product on your own. Aaron Patzer, founder of Mint.com, once…

  • Prairie Moves: A ‘blunt, direct voice’ in Des Moines’ startup community

    Lead Read: “A blunt, direct voice” – Dan Shipton of BitMethod profiled in Sunday’s Des Moines Register, giving an in-depth look at his background and approach Quotable: “We are destroying our competitors. Part of me says I don’t really care if the VCs on Sand Hill Road know us. We don’t need their money. We’re…

  • Weekly Startup Links: ‘Raising Money 101’ 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.

  • Prairie Portrait: Mary Noulles of KCnext

    Silicon Prairie News: How have you seen your role and responsibilities shift since the formation last fall of KCnext – The Technology Council of Greater Kansas City? | Mary Noulles: Since KCnext formed last fall, Ryan Weber, president of KCnext, will say, “Mary makes me look good.” All joking aside, my responsibilities have grown incrementally.…

  • The founder, startup culture and lessons from the Bushmen

    Startup founders establish the culture of their companies. Culture means different things to different people, but here we’re discussing the way the startup works, how team members interact, their work ethic, how they behave and how they react to outside inputs. How that culture expresses itself can be a strong asset to the startup or…