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  • Prairie Moves: Brian Rupert, Andrew Tople, Hurrdat 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. And if…

  • Ten Silicon Prairie startups to watch in 2012

    In 2011, we did our best to keep a close eye on Silicon Prairie startups, covering entrepreneurs who dared to disrupt the established local marketplace, aimed to make the online shopping experience more social and dreamed of virtual town-halls that increased citizen participation. Among the startups we covered, there were a few in each city…

  • Prairie Moves: Sam Wilken, Local Hero Design, Locusic 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. And if…

  • LiveOn goes live with platform for sharing and storing memories

    LiveOn, a service created to share and store memories online, launched this afternoon. Initially set to go live by Oct. 1, the site that gives users a new way to keep and share …

  • Prairie Moves: Clay Wiese, Mike Roeder, Kaimi and more

    With our inaugural Thinc Iowa in the books, our staff time is freed up for some serious content production. Take this Prairie Moves, for example, it’s two weeks worth of goodness – links to funding news, product announcements, media mentions and more. Each time I open my Google Reader to grab the latest headlines from…

  • With $750k angel round, stealthy LiveOn set to come alive August 15

    In classic startup fashion, LiveOn co-founder and CEO Jonathan Whistman described his idea in a phone interview earlier this week: “It’s almost like Facebook meets Ancestory.com meets time travel.” As a former business development and sales consultant, Whistman executed on his idea with a classic business strategy: the cold call. “I started trying …