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SXSnippets: Soggy Saturday still ‘overwhelming, cool and addictive’
11:30 a.m. – Head to Austin Convention Center in style. Sister lives here and takes me by her cute Fiat convertible door-to-door where I need to go. Cool!? Except it’s raining buckets here. Why did I leave 70 degrees in KC? | 12:40 p.m. – Fascinated by the characters everywhere. People in sumo outfits, light…
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SXSW Accelerator pitch today continues busy stretch for AgLocal
What already figured to be a whirlwind week at South By Southwest Interactive got a little bit busier for AgLocal just days before SXSW, when the Overland Park, Kan.-based startup was invited to participate in A Celebration of Ameican Startups, Not that the team from AgLocal, a marketplace that connects independent farmers and producers to…
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SXSnippets: Breakfast tacos and blow-up beds for Hudl’s CEO
4:45 a.m. – Wake up. This is one of those rare trips where I am flying out of Lincoln, so wake up is only 1 hr. 15 min. before my flight. | 7 – 9 a.m. – Layover in Minneapolis. Nothing like heading north before you fly south, but I’ve gotten used to the routine.…
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SXSnippets: Building a business on a bus
Day 3 of StartupBus was a lesson in endurance. Many of us started the morning after logging just slightly more than four hours of sleep for the week. We gathered our gear and loaded the bus for our final leg into San Antonio/Austin. Today would be the day that the world would get to know…
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Meet AgLocal, the online market for local meat picked to pitch at SXSW
With South By Southwest Interactive and the fourth annual SXSW Accelerator on the horizon, a Silicon Prairie standard bearer has emerged. It was announced on Monday that AgLocal, a startup based in Overland Park, Kan., was chosen from more than 670 companies as one of the 48 that will participate in the Accelerator on March…
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LiveOn named SXSW Awards finalist for ‘technical achievement’
LiveOn, a site enabling users to capture memories and share with loved ones, is a finalist for the South by Southwest Interactive Awards, an event recognizing the year’s best new digital work. Based in Kansas City, LiveOn was named one of five finalists in the …
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StartupBus is back, Silicon Prairie vying to get on board
Like Startup Weekend? Then you might want to jump on board StartupBus. It’s a similar competition but much, much faster — like, 60 mph faster. For the third year, StartupBus is holding its extreme startup competition …
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SXSW: Zach Hunnicutt talks social media, new technologies on the farm
Twitter users tweet, but in August 2009, fifth-generation Nebraska corn, popcorn and soybean farmer Zach Hunnicutt and other agriculturalists began “mooing” to support dairy farms and their struggle to survive due to low milk prices. #Moo became a top-10 trending topic on Twitter for about eight hours one afternoon, resulting in more than 500,000 unique…
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Context is everything: Hollrback rolls out Android app on eve of SXSW
Hollrback, a startup that’s made “context is everything” its mantra, illustrated an appreciation for the importance timing today with the release of its latest mobile offering. The context-based contact management system unveiled its Android app today (left, screenshots from market.android.com), on the eve of South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. “We’re all about meeting…