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Weekly Startup Links: Fee Fighters, Quora, 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: Tickets now on sale!
The time has come to make a very, very special announcement. Tickets for Big Omaha 2011 are now…live! We’re extremely excited to bring you another amazing Big Omaha with many special additions for 2011. This year we’ve added a half-day of speakers, bringing the total to two days of some of the nation’s best and…
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Prairie Moves: CremaLab, Syncbak, Pongr, QuickCal & 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…
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Who’s ready for Big Omaha 2011?
(Photo by Malone & Company.) We’re just days away from releasing information regarding Big Omaha 2011: tickets, speakers, party details and all of the fun for this year’s event. From the added half-day of speakers, second lunch, third evening event – super secret entertainment to be announced soon – and seeing old friends as well…
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Sunday Video: Naval Ravikant presents ‘The Rise of the Angels’
Earlier this month we posted an “AngelList Challenge” to encourage Silicon Prairie-based angel investors to sign up and become active on AngelList, an online community connecting investors and startups. We’ll be bringing you an update of that challenge later this week, but for this week’s Sunday Video I wanted to encourage you to watch one…
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Weekly Startup Links: Brad Feld, Software by Rob, 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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Editor’s Notebook: New team member, editor email and process
While preparing to give my “lightning talk” at last night’s Hacks/Hackers Heartland meetup – an Omaha group I encourage you to check out – I noticed that we’ve made quite a few changes at Silicon Prairie News since our second editor, Michael Stacy, came on board March 1. And as we implement those changes, our…
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Prairie Moves: T8 Webware, The Foundary, PeggyBank & More
(Photo by Brad Folkens via Flickr) 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,…
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PrairieCast with Josh Fleming & Charise Flynn (Video)
While I was down in Austin, Texas at South by Southwest Interactive last Tuesday, co-host Andy Brudtkuhl took the show hosting duties on by himself. He was joined by guests Josh Fleming of Lessing-Flynn and VineMe and Charise Flynn of Dwolla. Discussed this week Fleming’s startup, Vine Me, Flynn’s new role as COO of Dwolla,…
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Sunday Video: ‘Small Scale Sin’ by This American Life
This week’s Sunday Video isn’t a video and it isn’t too recent, but it’s one of the most fascinating pieces of media I’ve consumed this past year. First aired on November 24, 1995, this This American Life episode, “Small Scale Sin,” profiles the activities of two malicious internet users of the 90s. I was still…