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  • Special Series Wrap Up & Thoughts: ‘Talent and Innovation Initiative’

    In this four-part series, Tom Chapman, director of innovation and entrepreneurship for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, broke down four bills that are a part of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s “Talent and Innovation Initiative.” Here’s a run down of the bills and links to the posts: LB 386: Nebraska Internship Bill – Special Series…

  • Prairie Moves: Andrew Peters, The Foundary, Sojern & more

    (Photo by Mark Michaelis 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,…

  • Special Series: ‘Talent and Innovation Initiative’ – Angel Tax Credit Act

    (Editor’s Note: In this four-part series, Tom Chapman breaks down four bills that are a part of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s “Talent and Innovation Initiative.”) The new Nebraska Angel Investment Tax Credit Act would create Nebraska’s first angel investment tax credit for investments of more than $25,000 for qualified individuals and $50,000 for qualified funds.…

  • Special Series: ‘Talent and Innovation Initiative’ – Site & Building Dev. Act

    (Editor’s Note: In this four-part series, Tom Chapman breaks down four bills that are a part of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s “Talent and Innovation Initiative.”) This bill will set aside $3 million for the development of industrial, business and commercial sites. It allows for numerous uses of the money including demolition, infrastructure, construction and renovation/rehabilitation…

  • Announcing the Silicon Prairie Party at SXSW 2011 – Join us!

    Last Wednesday about 40 people from Omaha and nearby cities gathered at Slowdown for the Omaha stop on South by Southwest Interactive Town Hall tour. Tammy Lynn Gilmore and Monica Sack of SXSW were the hosts of the night, and the following day they put out a great blog post over on SXSW’s website: “We…

  • Sunday Video: ‘What is the internet anyway?’

    So if you haven’t seen this beauty of a clip from NBC circa 1994, it’s worth watching. And sharing. And sending via email, etc. etc. The video features Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric working hard to explain, or perhaps figure out, the internet. And yes, the employee who posted the video for the world to…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Startup City DSM, Onstartups, 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.

  • Special Series: ‘Talent and Innovation Initiative’ – Business Innovation Act

    (Editor’s Note: In this four-part series, Tom Chapman breaks down four bills that are a part of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s “Talent and Innovation Initiative.”) The purpose of LB 387 is to encourage and support the transfer of technology and innovation to create high growth, high tech companies in the state. There are essentially six…

  • Special Series: ‘Talent and Innovation Initiative’ – Internship Bill

    (Editor’s Note: In this four-part series, Tom Chapman breaks down four bills that are a part of Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman’s “Talent and Innovation Initiative.”) The Nebraska Internship Bill provides a matching grant to private, for-profit employers who add internship jobs that did not exist prior to the program. The goal of the program is…

  • Prairie Moves: Gina Adam, eCreamery, Snapp & more

    (Photo by David Sim 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,…