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Kauffman Foundation announces Big Omaha ticket contest winner
Almost two weeks ago, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation gave vying conference-goers an opportunity to enter the Big Omaha “Express Your Pledge” competition for a chance to win a ticket …
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Editor’s Notebook: Big Omaha, contributor update and guest posts
It’s Big Omaha season, can you tell? It’s that time of year when we put our small staff on overdrive to maintain content production and manage one of our premier events. The regular volume of posts (3-4 per day) has decreased, our email reply times have slowed and phone calls aren’t being returned as quickly,…
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Sunday Video: Warren Buffett on Salomon Brothers (1991)
Although I was unable to attend this year’s Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting on account of being out of town for LessConf, I’ve been catching up with the coverage of the event. One part of the meeting I’m particularly interested in learning about, as I’m sure are many others, was the way in which Warren Buffett…
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Weekly Startup Links: Joel Spolsky, A Smart Bear, 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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Big Omaha 2011 schedule overview and party details
We’re in the midst of finalizing speaker times and specific party details, but with the event less than two weeks away we wanted to supply attendees with a schedule of activities (speaker times coming soon) and non-attendees with the details of the Big Omaha party circuit. | Big Omaha 2011 Schedule: Wednesday, May 11: 8:00…
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SPN Out & About: LessConf in Atlanta
Just two weeks before Silicon Prairie News holds its own conference, Big Omaha, I’m stepping away from the craziness in our Omaha office to attend LessConf, a 250-attendee event in Atlanta for “anyone involved in web startups.” I arrived in the Big Peach late Thursday night and will be hanging out here until Saturday afternoon,…
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Prairie Moves: Secret Penguin, Flarecaster, Joe Petsick and more
Published every Tuesday (this week: two days late), 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, please…
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Sunday Video: ‘Why tech loves charity: water’
Friday was Earth Day and the folks at TechCrunch used that as a reason to inteview Scott Harrison, founder of Charity: Water, as part of their TechCrunch TV video series. It’s no secret that the Silicon Prairie News team are big supporters of Charity: Water’s work and we’re not alone in the technology community. It’s…
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Weekly Startup Links: AVC, 37signals, 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: Phenomblue, Infotec, Syncbak and more
Published every Tuesday, 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, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…