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Prairie Moves: Macy Koch, Blake Pinneke, Lake Surf Co. and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (two days late this week), 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,…
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Guest Post: At CES, it’s all about standing out
This year marked a milestone for the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Association announced this week that the show reached a record breaking number of more than 3,100 exhibitors, up from around 2,700 in previous years. With 140,000 attendees walking around, the biggest feat that these thousands of companies come…
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Guest Post: From big to small, CES has it all
I’m very fortunate to be writing this post while sitting in Las Vegas amongst crowds of tech and gadget enthusiasts during the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). I’m here with my company, Syncbak, debuting our internet television platform, a solution that is supported by the Consumer Electronics Association, the organization putting on the event this week.…
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Prairie Moves: Songdish, StaffNinja, QuickCal and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays (one day early this week with last Thursday’s edition missed) 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…
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Simpson College releases highlight video from Startup Storm
Simpson College released a highlight video from last Saturday’s Startup Storm event on the institution’s YouTube channel. The video highlights the work of organizer Macy Koch, a graduating senior, and presents interviews with her and speakers Donni Alley and Ben Milne. Clips from Christian Renaud and Nathan T. Wright’s presentations …
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SPN Out & About: Startup Storm recap
This past Saturday I had the privilege to speak at Startup Storm, a first of its kind event put on by Macy Koch, a senior at Simpson College. The event, billed as “teaching and supporting innovation and entrepreneurial development,” featured an opening keynote by Nathan T. Wright, founder of Lava Row and co-founder of Uppward,…
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SPN Out & About: Startup Storm at Simpson College on Saturday
Our team at Silicon Prairie News is often invited to speak at community events and entrepreneurial conferences about either our organization or the geographic and industry areas we cover. We’re starting a new series “SPN Out & About” to document those experiences, and next up is Startup Storm, a student entrepreneurship conference taking place …
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PrairieCast with Macy Koch and Zach Cox (Video)
On this week’s PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and I were joined by guests Macy Koch organizer of Startup Storm at Simpson College and Zach Cox of Pongr. Discussed this week: Prometheus Award winners, Big Omaha adds three speakers and sells out of tickets, Q&A with Josh Inkenbrandt of Inkstagram, Sojern brings Yahoo! veteran Mark Rabe aboard…
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PrairieCast live stream: 1:30 p.m. with Macy Koch and Zach Cox
Tune in today at 1:30 p.m. CST for Episode 33 of PrairieCast streaming live from the Webcast One studios. We’ll be joined by guests Zach Cox of Pongr and Macy Koch, Simpson College student and organizer of this weekend’s Startup Storm. Discussion topics will include the Prometheus Award winners, Big Omaha 2011 sold out, Inkstagram…