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  • Thinc Iowa website launch and tickets coming next week!

    Oh so close! We couldn’t be more excited to drop a sneak peek of the Thinc Iowa website here as an end of the week surprise for you. You’ll notice a few added buttons and if you could scroll down, lots more information about what’s ahead. The full site is set to launch next week,…

  • Prairie Moves: William Kehr, Chad Tettenborn, FTNI and more

    What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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,…

  • Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more

    Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase…

  • SPN Out & About: SBA’s Winslow Sargeant visits Des Moines

    On Monday, I had the opportunity to visit with Dr. Winslow Sargeant, the Small Business Administration’s chief counsel for advocacy, on behalf of Silicon Prairie News and the Des Moines Startup Foundation. Sargeant, who was in town for outreach on behalf of the SBA’s Office of Advocacy, spent the day in Des Moines meeting various…

  • Have a startup in the Silicon Prairie? Join Thinc Iowa’s Startup Circle

    Preparations for our inaugural Thinc Iowa conference in October are moving fast. For those keeping track, it’s less than three months away and over the course of the next few weeks, you’ll see more information from us as the website goes live and tickets go on sale. One development that we wanted to roll out…

  • Calling all contributors: SPN adding to team across the region

    Each week, we come across more and more stories in the Silicon Prairie that need to be heard. Whether it’s details about a freshly-launched product or the experiences of veteran entrepreneur, there are tales to be told all across the region, and we’re doing our best to cover them. With two full-time editors on staff…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Extended Speaker Q&A

    Today, we’re pleased to share with the you the 14th video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. The video features an extended Q&A panel with Dan Martell of Flowtown, Shervin Pishevar of Menlo Ventures, Mark Eckō of Artists & Instigators, Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch and Ben Huh of Cheezburger…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…