-
Get to know the five finalists for Best Creation
This Silicon Prairie Award goes to an incredible project—marketing campaign, physical product, hardware, app, website, anything—that innovates or re-imagines. And the finalists are…
-
Anyone can turn a problem-solving startup into a passion
(Guest post by Ben Pankonin) There’s this common thought that startups develop out of a certain personal belief that the problem you are solving impacts you greatly and causes a deep emotional reaction engaging every fiber of your being to solve it. At least for me, I always thought that was the way it was…
-
Prairie Portrait: Trent Allen, Social Assurance
Something most people don’t know about me: I sometimes wonder what would happen if you gave cats their own ecosystem. Would there become billions of equal cats or one vest-wearing cat to rule them all? Hence Investicats.com …
-
Silicon Prairie Spooky: Companies across the region celebrate Halloween
Two years ago we shared some of the Silicon Prairie’s spookiest Halloween costumes. Now we’re back for a second round of Halloween hijinx and startup shenanigans. Check out some of the best parties, pumpkins and punny costumes the Silicon Prairie had to offer this year …
-
Social Assurance launches new platform, partners with Fiserv
It’s been a busy couple of weeks for Nebraska-based Social Assurance. In August the company launched a new version of its …
-
Pankonin, Secoske team up to simplify social media compliance
Because of strict regulations, businesses in the financial industry can’t tweet just anything. Messages have to be approved by compliance officers. Only now with all these different social media avenues, compliance officers have a lot more to review. “We get asked, ‘Can you make it easier?’ ” said Ben Pankonin, co-founder, along with Matt Secoske…
-
Cornstalks returns Tuesday with Ben Pankonin and Matt Secoske
Cornstalks will return Tuesday, Jan. 31 at CAMP Coworking in North downtown Omaha with a networking reception at 6:30 p.m. and speakers’ program beginning at 7:30. For its first meeting since November, the event hosted by the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce …