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  • Prairie Moves: Josh Dreyer, Steve Gordon, Lava Row & more

    (Photo by Tim Lindenbaum via Flickr.) Usually 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…

  • Sunday Video: Brad Feld and David Cohen talk about Do More Faster

    This week’s video features Brad Feld and David Cohen sharing more about their recently released book, “Do More Faster.” The book looks at how the founders of TechStars identify the key issues that first-time entrepreneurs encounter, as well as offer proven advice from successful entrepreneurs who have worked with the TechStars program. Feld and Cohen…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Paul Graham, Backupify, 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.

  • Big Omaha Behind the Scenes: Event Details – Part II

    Today, I continue going through the presentation that Danny and I gave to a group of Startup Weekend organizers in Kansas City earlier this month. The presentation centered around the details of Big Omaha, and how they’re such a vital part of what makes the event special. In part one of this post, I covered…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re excited to release the video of Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo. Danae co-founded IndieGoGo to democratize fundraising as any project or idea on the site – creative, cause or entrepreneurial – can raise money, offer perks, and then keep 100% ownership of their own project. Ringelmann was recently honored…

  • New on Silicon Prairie News: Big Omaha videos page

    Today we’re excited to launch a new page on Silicon Prairie News which will serve as a landing page for all of our Big Omaha 2010 videos. To date, we’ve released four videos from the 2010 event, including Scott Harrison, Roger Fransecky, David Hauser, and Dennis Crowley. This page will be a great resource for…

  • Prairie Moves: Sojern, Zac Triemert, James Eliason & more

    Photo by Frapestaartje via Flickr Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps you 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…

  • Sunday Video: Steven Johnson on where good ideas come from

    For today’s video, I wanted to share with you the work of Steven Johnson. I became aware of Johnson on Fred Wilson’s blog as well as through Dusty and Danny over the last few weeks. Johnson is the author of the recently released book “Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation,” which…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Steve Newcomb, Coconut Headsets & 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.

  • Blog Action Day: Rahul Gupta of Planet Water Foundation

    (This is a guest post written by Rahul Gupta, an Omaha entrepreneur, erstwhile actor and recent addition to the team at the Planet Water Foundation.) A lot can happen in five months. I recently tweeted that Scott Harrison’s talk about charity: water at Big Omaha 2010 “literally changed the trajectory of my life.” That was…