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  • Prairie Moves: Hasani Hunter, Ryan Velgersdyk, Grain & Mortar and more

    What is Prairie Moves? 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…

  • Behind the scenes of Zaarly’s SXSW launch

    As I prepared for the trip down to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive earlier this month, I kept a close eye on the Silicon Prairie attendee Twitter stream to see what folks from the region were up to in Austin. The expected tweets about panels and parties raised my anticipation as usual, but…

  • Zaarly closes $1 million seed round, Bo Fishback going full-time

    Remember that startup we first wrote about less than two weeks ago? The one that launched at Startup Weekend Los Angeles on February 20 with a pitch by Kansas Citian Bo Fishback? The one that had celebrities Demi Moore and LeVar Burton tweeting about it the night it launched? Yeah, that one: Zaarly. Earlier today,…

  • Zaarly turning ecommerce on its head, set to launch at SXSW (Video)

    (Left, Bo Fishback presents Zaarly at Startup Weekend Los Angeles. Photo by Jim Alden via flickr.com/techfrog.) Over the course of three weeks, Zaarly will go from building a prototype and pitching Hollywood celebrity and startup investor Ashton Kutcher to aggresively launching at the tech industry’s largest conference, South by Southwest Interactive. If their quick turnaround…

  • Have an idea? Three rules of thumb from attorney Eric Koester

    At the Startup Organizers Summit on October 2nd, Startup Weekend Board of Advisors member Eric Koester gave a presentation to address legal concerns that may arise during the event. From one of the first questions often asked, “Is my idea patentable?” to the one of the final questions, “How should we distribute equity?” Koester provided…