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CrowdSavings snaps up Midwest daily deal network Deal Garden
Omaha-based daily deal network Deal Garden has been acquired by CrowdSavings, a Tampa, Fla. company that operates more than 60 local daily deal sites. With the purchase, CrowdSavings adds six Midwestern cities, including Sioux City, Iowa and Lawrence, Kan., along with a regionally-focused vacation deals site. “We are extremely pleased with the success …
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Bootstrapping is about balancing scarce resources
(Guest post by Pat Lazure.) Simply put, bootstrapping is about balancing scarce resources. A neophyte entrepreneur may believe that he understands what bootstrapping is all about. In fact, it wasn’t until recently that I understood it myself. The common perception is that bootstrapping is all about juggling financial expenses – but really, there’s a whole…
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Prairie Portrait: Cody Butler of Deal Garden
Silicon Prairie News: After stints with more established businesses, you made the jump to a startup a little over a year ago in joining Deal Garden. What drove you to enter the startup world? | Cody Butler: I was one of those guys that quit his more-than-decent-paying corporate job thinking I could start a business…
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Web developer, account executive, graphic designer, intern and more
We’re excited to bring you our 77th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions at Corporate 3 Design, Deal Garden and Anderson Auto Group; Thought District in Lincoln; Integer …
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Prairie Moves: Marq Manner, VoterTide, Kelsey Dempsey and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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 …
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Prairie Moves: Dave Rowe, I Smell Brains, Slouch Couch and more
As Thinc Iowa nears (now just 12 days away), our staff resources have been moved around for event planning and execution and unfortunately for our readers, this means our content volume and deadlines take a hit. Expect fresh stories daily, but look to Prairie Moves to keep you in the loop on the activities of…
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Market account executive and media coordinator
We’re excited to bring you our 70th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions from Deal Garden and Sojern in Omaha. If you or your company have one to add …