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  • Prairie Moves: John Gustafson, Jordy Clements, Fierce Robot & more

    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 email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • PrairieCast: Aayush Phumbhra of textbook rental website Chegg

    This week on PrairieCast our guest is Aayush Phumbhra, co-founder and senior vice president of Chegg, a Santa Clara, California-based company often described as the “Netflix of textbook rentals.” Aayush earned his MBA at Iowa State University in Ames and joined forces with the founders of Cheggpost.com, a local website focused on saving students money.…

  • TechCrunch goes in-depth on Chegg

    Last week TechCrunch published an in-depth review of Chegg as part of their TC Teardown series. This series, which analyzes a company’s business model and estimates their revenues, has previously looked at Zynga and Groupon. In this analysis the researcher estimates that Chegg will generate $130 million in revenue this year from their textbook rental…