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  • How do we intentionally build communities that foster entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity?

    How do we intentionally build communities that foster entrepreneurship, innovation and creativity?

    Andy Stoll shares insights from 20 years of building programs and communities to help entrepreneurs and creatives turn their ideas into reality.

  • 10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to the Creative Corridor

    10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to the Creative Corridor

    While the Silicon Prairie may span across several states, include vastly different types of companies and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds (and football rivalries), supportive communities are one factor that tie them all together. Whether you’re in Omaha or Des Moines, Kansas City or Cedar Rapids, you’ll find people who really care about helping their fellow…

  • Seed Here helps produce four-day road tour with AOL’s Steve Case

    Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Seed Here Studio announced today it will partner with Revolution and UP Global to present the “Rise of the Rest” road tour with AOL co-founder Steve Case. While the four-day, four-city tour won’t stop in the Silicon Prairie, co-founders Amanda Styron and Andy Stoll say the trip helps continue Seed Here’s mission…

  • Seed Here celebrates second birthday with Cedar Rapids’ Vault Coworking

    Seed Here will celebrate its second birthday––which technically falls on Independence Day––and the “success of the East Coast of the Silicon Prairie” …

  • Q&A: RecBob CEO discusses going full-time with Startup Weekend idea

    John Schnipkoweit (left), the co-founder and now former CTO of Ovation Networks in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has gone full-time with an idea he first pitched at Startup Weekend Iowa City in October. And he’s not alone. “I’ve sold all of my shares in Ovation Networks to my co-founder,” Schnipkoweit said in an email interview on…

  • Guest Post: Answering Scott Case’s challenge to the Silicon Prairie

    At Thinc Iowa in Des Moines last month, Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and founding CTO of priceline.com, described the mission of the Startup America Partnership. Initiated by the White House but operating as an independent, private-sector entity, the Startup America Partnership is dedicated to growing more resources for entrepreneurs in the…

  • Prairie Moves: Clay Wiese, Mike Roeder, Kaimi and more

    With our inaugural Thinc Iowa in the books, our staff time is freed up for some serious content production. Take this Prairie Moves, for example, it’s two weeks worth of goodness – links to funding news, product announcements, media mentions and more. Each time I open my Google Reader to grab the latest headlines from…

  • Vault open to Wednesday coworking, set for full-scale launch in November

    Downtown Cedar Rapids is getting an office space like it has never seen before. Vault, a coworking and collaboration space located on the fifth floor of the historic Guranty Bank Building (302 3rd Ave SE), is offering free community workspace every Wednesday in August for area entrepreneurs and creatives with plans for a full business…

  • With more than 100 attendees, inaugural BarCamp ICR a success

    The inaugural BarCamp ICR was held on Saturday at the Iowa City Public Library. We couldn’t have had a better event! We met over 100 attendees and our day was extended hours longer due to many more people wanting to talk than we could have imagined. Just three minutes after opening up the grid for…

  • Release of Dear World: Omaha photos and letter from founder

    (Editor’s Note: With today’s release of the Dear World: Omaha photos, we’re also pleased to have the opportunity to share with you a letter from the startup’s founder, Robert X. Fogarty.) Dear Silicon Prairie News Readers, Here is a secret that you may know. It’s one that others now tell. Omaha is a fly to—not…