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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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SXSnippets: Keeping people of the Prairie from feeling home alone
Last year around this time, I felt an awful lot like Kevin McCallister. When South By Southwest Interactive rolled around, my fate mirrored that of the precocious protagonist from “Home Alone.” Silicon Prairie News team leaves town. Michael stays in town. Michael is home alone. And, once the novelty of using dad’s aftershave and eating…
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The Silicon Prairie at SXSW 2012: Panels, pitches, party and more
“Spring break for nerds” is about to begin – er, I mean – South by Southwest Interactive starts Friday in Austin. The annual event, one of three events that make up the 10-day South by Southwest festival, will bring together nearly 20,000 people from around the world for five days of panels, presentations, parties and…
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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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2012 SXSW Accelerator open for entries
Yes, it is hard to believe, but we are a few short months away from South by Southwest Interactive 2012, to be held March 9-13 in Austin, Texas. For a second year, I was asked to serve on the advisory board for the SXSW Accelerator, taking place March 12-14. A live audience and a panel…
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Vote for SPN and “Panels from the Prairie” in the SXSW PanelPicker
With more than 3,200 submissions, the competition is as fierce as ever to land a panel at next year’s South by Southwest Interactive, but through Friday you have a chance to help out your Silicon Priarie freinds with a quick “thumbs up.” To vote for one of the seven “Panels from the Prairie” submissions, two…
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SXSW 2012 PanelPicker now open, list of Panels from the Prairie
Unlike the old saying about picking friends’ noses, when it comes South by Southwest (SXSW) panels you can have it all – you can pick your friends, you can pick your own panels and you can pick your friends’ panels. With that delightful thought in mind, we wanted to call out the “Panels from the…