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  • Prairie Moves: James Armstead, Fresk, Nebraska Global and more

    What is Prairie Moves? – Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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,…

  • Startup Weekend KC’s Call Me Meeting finalist in TwilioCon contest

    Following closely on the heels of West Coast wins by two other startups with Midwest ties, Call Me Meeting is looking to author another Silicon Prairie success story this week at the Twilio Conference in San Francisco. Call Me Meeting, which was founded in April at Startup Weekend Kansas City and took …

  • Save the date: Startup Weekend Kansas City happening Nov. 11-13

    It was announced this morning that the fourth Startup Weekend Kansas City will be taking place November 11-13 at Cerner Innovation Campus. If you’re unable to make it to Omaha’s event later this month, Sept. 16-18, make sure to put this one on your calendar and consider attending. At Startup Weekend, small teams of developers,…

  • Boxcar’s Jonathan George reflects on Startup Weekend Kansas City (Video)

    The first time Jonathan George participated in Startup Weekend — April 16-17 at Startup Weekend Kansas City (SWKC) — it was as a keynote speaker and judge. Once upon a time, George, the founder and CEO of Boxcar, set the groundwork for Boxcar over the course of a weekend. But he did so without the…

  • Startup Weekend Kansas City: Photo and video wrap-up

    Looking to squeeze every last drop out of the 54 hours of Startup Weekend Kansas City before you transition back to those other 8,706 hours of your year? No to worry: we have you covered. We caught up with SWKC organizers Steven Chau and Adam Coomes to get their thoughts on this year’s event and…

  • Startup Weekend Kansas City: CraftWig walks away with win

    Behold the power of the T-shirt. It was fitting in a way that CraftWig, the only team to don matching T-shirts for Startup Weekend Kansas City final demonstrations on Sunday, walked away from the bizperc office space as the winner of SWKC. CraftWig, an online community for crafters that offers in-depth tutorials, shopping lists, price…

  • Startup Weekend Kansas City: Live-streaming final demos at 6:30 p.m.

    Join us around 6:30 p.m. for live-streaming of demo pitches from the eight teams at Startup Weekend Kansas City.

  • Startup Weekend Kansas City: Lineup and judges set for tonight

    Our editor, Michael Stacy, is both competing in and covering his first Startup Weekend at the moment and while he’s currently doing the former with his team, My …

  • Startup Weekend Kansas City: Talk from Boxcar’s George, photos

    Quoth great Kevin McCallister (because when isn’t a Home Alone quote at least marginally appropriate?): This is it. Don’t get scared now. Just a few hours stand between Startup Weekend Kansas City participants and their final presentations, which get underway at 6:30 p.m. here at the bizperc office space. Rest assured, “getting scared” won’t be…

  • Startup Weekend Kansas City: Notes and photos from opening night

    Day 2 of Startup Weekend Kansas City kicked off this morning on the heels of an energetic opening night. For starters, attendees on Friday enjoyed dinner, Boulevard beer and spectacular downtown views from the sixth floor of the bizperc office space. Co-organizer Adam Coomes served as emcee for the evening, and ice-breaking games got the…