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Pipeline CEO to appear on Microsoft’s BizSpark Show tonight at 5 p.m.
Monday evening PIPELINE president and CEO Joni Cobb will appear on The BizSpark Show, Microsoft’s startup TV chat show. The program is hosted by Douglas Crets and features individuals from around the world…
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How to create unique user experiences and be a rock star startup
Sponsor: Thanks to Microsoft BizSpark, a Microsoft program for startups, for supporting Silicon Prairie News. The program will be providing posts each month throughout 2013. About the author: This post is authored by Sonal Mane, a Microsoft BizSpark Startup Technologist based in Chicago. I have been working with Chicago-based entrepreneur Nihal Advani for a while now. He is one…
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How ideas can grow into companies
Amazing ideas often come from concerns we find in our everyday lives. That piece of wisdom rings especially true for Pixsi, a new consumer-centric mobile marketing company whose headquarters are located in Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Over the past few months, I’ve had the opportunity to watch Pixsi grow first-hand. As a Startup Technologist for Microsoft,…
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A field guide to BizSpark
If you visit Silicon Prairie News often you may have seen a banner for BizSpark. As I engage startup communities across the central U.S. I’m often asked to help founders maximize their BizSpark membership, or to explain …
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Stay tuned for the Big Omaha videos presented by Microsoft BizSpark
With another event freshly entered in the annals of SPN history now is the time to remind you that you don’t need to wait 12 months to experience more of Big Omaha. Thanks to the support of Microsoft BizSpark, a major sponsor of Big Omaha 2012, we’ll be releasing video of the 14 presentations delivered…
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Savvy college students: Register for the April 4 Startup Job Crawl
When I started my senior year, the term startup was foreign to me. It wasn’t until a few months before I started my spring internship at Silicon Prairie News that I started to get a feel for what a startup really is and the impact entrepreneurship can have on a community. Once I started going…
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Evidence of a perfect storm? Why the Gigabit Challenge is important for the Silicon Prairie
(This is a sponsor post by Chris Bernard of Microsoft BizSpark.) There’s an old adage that the best way to describe a job you love is that you would do it for free. I’m fortunate enough in my role in Microsoft that I’ve been able to experience that opportunity by working and meeting with investors,…
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Welcome new sponsor: Microsoft BizSpark
We are very excited to kick off a new level of sponsorship today with Microsoft BizSpark! BizSpark is Microsoft’s startup-specific program designed to get software and server products directly in the hands of people building …
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A belated Thinc Iowa thank you to Microsoft BizSpark
We are sending out a special Thinc Iowa thank you to the amazing team at Microsoft BizSpark for their support of this year’s event, as well as their continued support of our work at Big Omaha and Silicon Prairie News. Microsoft BizSpark is a global program that helps software startups succeed by giving them access…
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Thinc Iowa Closing Party presented by Microsoft BizSpark coming Friday
Wrap up the inaugural Thinc Iowa experience with the Closing Party presented by Microsoft BizSpark. The party, which starts at 8 p.m. on Friday at Americana (1312 Locust St), is open to the public. (The Thinc Iowa Opening Party presented by T8 Webware is open to the public.) By this time in the conference, attendees…