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  • Prairie Moves: Christopher Kollars, SmartyPig, C-Blend & more

    (Photo by James Jordan via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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…

  • Aspiring journalist Andrea Ciurej shares her SPN internship experience

    (Editor’s Note: We asked our 2010 summer intern, Andrea Ciurej, to share her experience as a summer intern at Silicon Prairie News.) As we approach our mid-20s, we often wonder if getting our first car at 16 and becoming legal at 21 were the last milestones left to look forward to. As a journalist with…

  • Sunday Video: Warren Buffett on building your personal moat

    In preparation for the release of its annual “Forbes 400” issue, the publication sent a photo and video crew to Omaha, Nebraska, where two of the individuals on the list came together for a photo shoot and video interview. Those individuals were hip hop artist and entrepreneur Jay-Z and Omaha’s own Warren Buffett. In the…

  • Weekly Startup Links: Software by Rob, Simeon Simeonov, 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.

  • Nebraska Film Series highlights six individuals in growing community

    Over the past six weeks, we escaped our usual industry of focus, the tech industry, and put the spotlight on six individuals in our state’s burgeoning film industry. The goal of this series, titled “Nebraska Film,” was to highlight individuals, companies and organizations who are working hard to grow…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Roger Fransecky of The Apogee Group

    After debuting our Big Omaha 2010 Video Series on Tuesday with Scott Harrison’s moving presentation, we’re excited to bring you our second video which features visionary and business leader Roger Fransecky of The Apogee Group. Fransecky’s insight, vision and leadership challenge served as a motivating presentation to open our first day of talks on Friday,…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Scott Harrison of charity: water

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re excited to release the first video in the series of presentations from Big Omaha 2010, which was held at KANEKO, May 12-15. We chose to begin with one of the most powerful talks from the event, that of charity: water founder Scott Harrison. Harrison’s presentation was not only…

  • Prairie Moves: Laura Brooker, Ben Sinclair, Leann Jacobson & more

    (Photo by jon smith ‘una nos lucror’ via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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…

  • Big Omaha: Behind the scenes with Malone & Company

    The week has finally arrived! In the next few days, we’ll be releasing the first Big Omaha 2010 speaker video. Before we do so, however, we’ve asked Malone & Company, the team behind the first-class photography and video of Big Omaha 2010, to share the backstory and amount of work they put into the two…

  • Sunday Video: Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures on TechCrunch TV

    This week’s video features Fred Wilson, a venture capitalist and principal of New York-based Union Square Ventures, answering questions during the “Ask a VC” series moderated by Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch. Enjoy this brief clip and be sure to follow Wilson on Twitter, @fredwilson, and his blog, avc.com, for his outstanding take on the venture…