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  • By thinking small, Creative Ocean’s Tom Miller generates big demand

    Tom Miller thinks small. 40k small. That’s the size restriction called for by most ad agencies in online banner advertising today. “That’s what I take a lot of pride in, the ability to squeeze large amounts of visual information into teeny, tiny ad restrictions,” Miller said. “That’s where I get a lot of my repeat…

  • Prairie Moves: Scott Blaine, Secret Penguin, Zaarly and more

    Published every Tuesday, 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT: Hollrback demoing at SF New Tech

    Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT tonight to watch Gabe Kangas of the Omaha-based startup Hollrback give a 5-minute demo his mobile contact management app at SF New Tech, a monthly meetup with more than 5,000 members. In preparation for tonight’s event, I caught up with Kangas today by email. He said that he had…

  • Prairie Moves: Kate Richling, Adam Trabold, Shoplr and more

    Published every Tuesday, 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 emailinfo@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Wrapping it all up (Video)

    As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we’ve…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Hollrback demo by Gabe Kangas (Video)

    Hollrback founder Gabe Kangas presented his company’s context-specific, event-based contact-management system. That description, Kangas said, is “a fancy way of saying that when you meet people, we’re going to try to take care of making that information useful to you.” Technical difficulties prevented us from recording Kangas’ presentation on Demo Night, but he was kind…

  • Prairie Moves: Brandon Weber, Shane Mac, VineMe and More

    Published every Tuesday, 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. And if you…

  • Watch Cornstalks Demo Night live — hashtag: #prairiedemo

    We’ve set up shop at Creighton University’s Harper Center, where Cornstalks Demo Night presentations are set to kick off at about 7 p.m. We’ll be live-streaming the presentations here, so stay tuned for eight-minute pitches from eight Silicon Prairie startups …

  • Cornstalks Demo Night tonight – Live stream at 7 p.m. (tune in here!)

    A limited number of seats remain for tonight’s Cornstalks Demo Night. The event is being held inside Creighton University’s Harper Center and kicks off at 6 p.m. with an hour-long networking reception in…

  • Hollrback gets big win over Big Give Media in TechStars’ Startup Madness

    Give Hollrback this: the Omaha-based startup seems to have a flair for the dramatic. For the second time in two rounds of TechStars’ Startup Madness tournament, Hollrback advanced with a win by an oh-so-slim margin. With the narrow victory, Hollrback advanced …