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And the winners of the 2014 Silicon Prairie Awards are…
After literally thousands of votes, the input of a handful of judges and a lot of creative social media campaigns, all of you dressed to the nines and joined us Thursday evening at Kansas City’s Midland Theatre to see who would be deemed the best of the Prairie. Now we’re excited to share with you…
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NMotion’s Turnstile Cards team releases app for Lincoln Saltdogs
An idea that began at a Startup Weekend in Cedar Rapids and is evolving through the NMotion accelerator came to fruition this week. Turnstile Cards set out to create digital collectible cards for sports teams, and this week, released its first app, a prototype for minor league baseball team Lincoln’s Saltdogs.
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Networking experts dole out 10 tips for entrepreneurs looking to expand reach
More than 50 people—some confident in their networking skills, others a bit shy—turned out for a discussion panel on “Leveraging Your Network To Advance Your Business” at Omaha’s Straight Shot accelerator on Wednesday…
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Amanda Morrow shares the tools she uses to design at Change
(Guest post by Amanda Morrow) Now, I’m not really one to obsess over tools. I try to take a pragmatic approach and focus more on what needs to be accomplished, then find the best tool for the task at hand. When others ask me what to use for designing apps or websites, I often suggest…
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Hurrdat joins Omaha’s B2 Interactive after impressing on national project
Hurrdat, a digital marketing startup created four years ago in Lincoln by two former Nebraska football players, has been acquired by Omaha-based digital marketing agency B2 Interactive. The terms were not disclosed. Hurrdat will remain in Lincoln and keep all 17 employees. They plan to move to a new office in September. B2 grows to…
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Stop, collaborate and rejoice with your Silicon Prairie neighbors Aug. 21
This is your heads up before August 21 rolls around and you’re left wondering where everyone in your co-working space or office has gone. It’s hard to pull entrepreneurs away from their work—passions, really—and get them all in one place, let alone a different city. But the results typically are incredible. Add in a passion…
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Come celebrate the last three years in Des Moines with StartupCity
For the last three years, StartupCity Des Moines has been a place for the central Iowa startup community to congregate and collaborate. Now, its organizers are calling the community together in the space one last time for a different purpose—to celebrate what’s been accomplished over the last three years…
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Which startup has the Best Culture? Vote now!
It’s our first year taking note of the vibrant, talented teams in our midst. The ones that somehow have an abundance of fun while also getting results. They made it this far, now they need your vote to deem them the best place to joyfully lug long hours.
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Notice something different? We’ve upgraded Silicon Prairie News
Since 2010, Silicon Prairie News has been operating on a custom back-end created by our co-founder Dusty Davidson. Back then, it was a pretty slick system, but the Internet has grown leaps and bounds in the past six years. So we decided it was time we grew, too…
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How Hail Varsity persuaded investors to put $300K in print, online media
Ask almost anyone and they’d tell you print is dying. But ask Aaron Babcock, founder of Hail Varsity, a startup media company covering the Huskers in Lincoln, and he’ll tell you another story…
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