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LivingSocial co-founder talks about building viral products
“The first deal we ran we started in just one city – in Washington D.C., our home base – and we sold 53 vouchers to a local sushi restaurant,” said Aaron Batalion, co-founder of LivingSocial. “On our one-year anniversary we were live in 53 markets. So, it’s been a pretty exciting year in launching this…
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Prairie Moves: The World Tri, Proxibid, Medizzle and more
(Photo by hennasabel via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…
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Omaha World-Herald launches Daily Deal Omaha
Yesterday, the Omaha World-Herald (OWH) threw their name in the hat for daily deal offerings serving Omaha. Although their launch trails that of major players Groupon and LivingSocial, they have an existing audience, ad sales team, and, of course, a strong local brand that will accelerate their version, Daily Deal Omaha, to the forefront. “What…
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Prairie Moves: Andrew Wirick, Clint Harvey, Susan Thomas and more
(Photo by Caza_No_7 via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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,…
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Daily deal website LivingSocial adds Omaha to its list of 52
There’s no doubt about it, three things are currently trending: email newsletters, daily deals, and Justin Bieber’s song Omaha Mall. There are few similarities between the three, especially with the latter in the mix, but one that hits on them all is the news of the day: LivingSocial adds Omaha to its list of 52…
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Account Executive, Programmer, Email Marketing Specialist & more
We’re excited to bring you our sixteenth Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Living Social, Princess Lasertron, HowMuchWhere.com, and Oriental Trading, all located in Omaha. If you or your company has one to add, please contact Danny at jobs@siliconprairienews.com with the listing…