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MindMixer announces it’s hiring a team in San Francisco
With offices already in Omaha, Lincoln and Kansas City, MindMixer today announced it will take its civic engagement westward, looking to hire a small team in San Francisco. Nick Bowden, co-founder and CEO, wrote in the blog…
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ISU professor lets students loose with $5 to create a business venture
Students at Iowa State University are learning it doesn’t take a huge investment to launch a successful business venture. This semester Andreea Kiss, assistant professor of management at ISU, gave each student group in her course a $5 initial investment and let them loose on a four-week challenge to create a business plan and raise as…
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Techstars names John Fein managing director for Sprint Accelerator
On Wednesday, Techstars announced John Fein as managing director of the Sprint Mobile Health Accelerator, powered by Techstars. David Cohen, managing partner and founder of Techstars, posted the news on the accelerator’s site, writing that Fein “has a wealth of experience managing large, cross-functional teams and has been involved in four different startups.” Fein served…
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A month after securing seed funding, Knoda releases its iPhone app
A month after announcing it secured seed funding from a local investor, Kansas City-based prediction startup Knoda today released its first application for the iPhone. Users can make predictions about any future event—the result of an MLB game or the name of a celebrity couple’s baby—in a friendly, competitive environment where other users weigh in…
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Voting for Startup Weekend’s Global Startup Battle is now live
A number of Silicon Prairie teams are getting ready to rumble as voting for the Global Startup Battle is officially up and running as the teams prepare to go head-to-head in the worldwide competition. The tied winners of Startup Weekend Des Moines—BeardOrNot.co and Brickit—as well as Startup Weekend Kansas City’s winner Pijjin will compete with…
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KU social entrepreneurship panel streamed at 10:30 a.m. today
This morning, Silicon Prairie News CEO Regan Carrizales will moderate a panel on social entrepreneurship at the University of Kansas School of Business beginning at 10:30 a.m, which will be live streamed on the School’s site. The panel will consist of Jeremy Farmer, Lawrence city commissioner and chief executive of Douglas County food bank Just Food;…
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Silbermann, Branson to host Google hangout today at 11 a.m. CST
Pinterest founder Ben Silbermann—who grew up in Des Moines—and Virgin Group founder Richard Branson will host a live Google hangout today at 11 a.m. CST. The conversation will focus on Silbermann and Branson’s experiences as entrepreneurs and how they have both scaled their companies into global businesses. The hangout is part of Google for Entrepreneurs‘ “Hangouts for Entrepreneurs” series, which…
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Launch KC celebrates one-year anniversary with event Thursday
As Launch KC celebrates its one-year anniversary, the tech and entrepreneurial communities are invited to spend an evening celebrating the program’s first year. The initiative launched last year and aimed to attract tech entrepreneurs and companies to the Crossroads Arts District and greater downtown Kansas City. Kansas City, Mo. mayor Sly James—one of the intiative’s key supporters—will…
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Creighton’s 3 Day Startup wraps Sunday with practice investor pitch
While Startup Weekends took place the past few days in Des Moines and Kansas City, a different sort of business-building event was hosted this weekend in Omaha. Twenty-seven students from Creighton University, the University of Nebraska at Omaha and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln spent the weekend at 3 Day Startup, developing a business idea and executing on…