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  • Sunday Video: Founder David Karp on Tumblr’s fast-paced growth

    This week’s video features David Karp, founder of Tumblr, in interview he conducted this week with Chris Dixon for the TechCrunch TV show “Founder Stories.” Tumblr is growing at an unbelievable pace over the last four to five months. In Karp’s words, “We are growing by a quarter billion impressions every week.” Last week, Tumblr…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Derek Flanzraich, Appsumo 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: RockDex, Smelly Puppy, Uppward & 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,…

  • Sunday Video: Matthew Rosenberg of Fast Society

    Recently, one of the founders of the Crunchies Award nominee for Best Bootstrapped Startup, Fast Society, was interviewed on the streets of New York by TechCrunch writer Erick Schonfeld. In the interview, titled “Not Your Mother’s Group Messaging App,” Matthew Rosenberg talks about why group texting startups are beginning to take off and how Fast…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Ben Horowitz, Gen Y Startup, 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: David Kerber, Matthew Helt, Jim Esch & more

    (Photo by Maerzbow 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, please…

  • Sunday Video: David Letterman interviews Biz Stone

    For this week’s Sunday video, we bring you a short clip of Twitter co-founder Biz Stone being interviewed by television personality David Letterman. In this abridged video of the full interview, the pair joke back and forth about all things Twitter and social media. The real excitement comes when Dave asks Biz who his favorite…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Rocket Watcher, Steve Blank, 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.

  • Annual Report: Wild, Almost Naive Ambition

    Over the next several weeks, we’ll expand on each of the items that are to be included in the inaugural “Silicon Prairie Annual Report,” which we’ve described as a “look back at the previous year in the Silicon Prairie region, taking into account such metrics as company formations, product releases and developments, investment and M&A…

  • Prairie Moves: Dan Young, Hillary Brown, Chad Stansbury & more

    (Photo by ActiveSteve 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, please…