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States ‘starting up’ with Startup Fair and launch events (Video)
In conjunction with the one-year anniversary of Startup America Partnership today, the four states of the Silicon Prairie will each be “started up” by day’s end. In December, StartupIowa launched, on Friday, Startup Nebraska became official, and today, Startup Kansas and Startup Missouri will hold events to kick off their efforts. Headquartered in Washington D.C.,…
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Startup Nebraska launches, Kiene shares ‘state of Nebraska’ (Video)
Startup Nebraska, a statewide effort in conjunction with the Startup America Partnership, launched Friday with a hour-long event organized by individuals spearheading the cause. “This is very exciting,” Tom Chapman of Nebraska Global, the event’s emcee, opened the program in front of about 40 attendees. “I think we have sort of the startup motif going,”…
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Startup Nebraska to launch with Omaha event on Jan. 27
Startup Nebraska, a statewide effort in conjunction with the Startup America Partnership, will officially launch with an event at 3 p.m. on Jan. 27 at The Mastercraft …
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Startup Missouri is go for launch, will join in busy day on Jan. 31
The Show-Me State is joining some of its Silicon Prairie neighbors in launching a statewide effort later this month in conjunction with the Startup America Partnership. …
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Startup Kansas planning meeting to be held Jan. 11
If the organizers behind the regional efforts of the Startup America Partnership have it their way, the Silicon Prairie could have three “Startup States” by the end of January. Individuals in …
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PrairieCast with Scott Case, Emma Peterson and Jordan Lampe (Video)
One of the best TV shows of all time began each episode with one of the series regulars doing a voice over “Cheers is filmed before a live studio audience,” (in my head, it’s Cliff Clavin saying it) and for the first time we can claim the same for PrairieCast! In addition to the audience,…
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PrairieCast: Live at 2 with Scott Case, Jordan Lampe & Emma Peterson
There’s been a late addition to today’s show! Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and one of our Thinc Iowa speakers, will join us live at 2 p.m as a bonus guest! Case is in town as part of the StartupIowa launch today. Previously announced …
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Q&A: Renaud on StartupIowa, a statewide initiative launching today
StartupIowa, the eighth statewide “region” to join the Startup America Partnership, launches today in a closed event at Startup City Des Moines. Startup America …
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Guest Post – Update: Answering Scott Case’s challenge to the Silicon Prairie
As we watched the highly-anticipated Iowa-Nebraska and Kansas-Missouri football games this past weekend, it was evident that the Silicon Prairie is passionate about friendly state-vs-state rivalries. In the same spirit of neighborly competition, we have an update on the Scott Case Challenge to the Silicon Prairie as we wrote about a few weeks ago. …
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Guest Post: Answering Scott Case’s challenge to the Silicon Prairie
At Thinc Iowa in Des Moines last month, Scott Case, CEO of the Startup America Partnership and founding CTO of priceline.com, described the mission of the Startup America Partnership. Initiated by the White House but operating as an independent, private-sector entity, the Startup America Partnership is dedicated to growing more resources for entrepreneurs in the…