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Mozilla awards grants to projects that harness Gigabit power for education
Mozilla announced grants ranging from $5,000 to $30,000 to eight educational pilot projects in Kansas City and Chattanooga, Tenn., that are taking advantage of the cities’ gigabit Internet speeds …
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PrairieCast Video: Pipeline Innovator of the Year, the Gigabit Challenge
This week on PrairieCast, we’re joined by Marco Santana, The Des Moines Register’s new technology and startup reporter, as well as our own Michael Stacy. We talked through all the news and notes from Pipeline’s Innovator of the Year festivities and looked back on the Gigabit Challenge to discuss what it means to the region.…
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Prairie Moves: Jeremy Harrington, 1Weather, MindMixer and more
What is Prairie Moves? Published twice weekly, 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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Think Big Partners announces new initiatives at Gigabit Challenge event
The 16 teams that pitched business plans at the finale of the Gigabit Challenge on Wednesday weren’t the only ones to introduce big ideas at the event. Think Big Partners, the Kansas City, Mo.-based early-stage business incubator and startup accelerator that put on the Gigabit Challenge, took the opportunity Wednesday to introduce some new projects…
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SEIN Analytics takes top prize in Gigabit Challenge
After more than three hours of business-plan pitches and an entire day’s worth of events, SEIN Analytics and Asset Management emerged from a field of 19 finalists to earn the grand prize …
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Live-streaming: The Gigabit Challenge finale’s 19 pitches
The Gigabit Challenge, a business plan competition hosted by Kansas City’s Think Big Partners to mark the arrival of Google’s one-gigabit fiber network in the city, wraps up today with a full day of events, highlighted by 19 business pitches, at the Kansas City Public Library’s Plaza Branch (4801 Main St.). If you can’t make…
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Gigabit Challenge to culminate in daylong event Wednesday
The finalists are in place. The speakers are set. The judges are, too. Now, about all that remains is a good, old-fashioned business pitch session. The Gigabit Challenge, a business plan competition hosted by Think Big Partners to mark the arrival of Google’s …
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Gigabit Challenge reveals 19 finalists, pitch competition set for January 18
The Gigabit Challenge, a business plan competition being hosted by Think Big Partners to celebrate the arrival of Google’s one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, revealed its 19 finalists today, whittled down from the 39 semi-finalists announced two weeks ago. To reach this final stage …
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Prairie Moves: Sue Munnik, Mark Palmer, Juan Gomez 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. …
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Gigabit Challenge announces 39 semi-finalists
The Gigabit Challenge, a competition being hosted by Think Big Partners to celebrate the arrival of Google’s one-gigabit fiber network in Kansas City, announced its 39 semi-finalists today chosen from a field of 113 submissions. …