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  • Watch Cornstalks Demo Night live — hashtag: #prairiedemo

    We’ve set up shop at Creighton University’s Harper Center, where Cornstalks Demo Night presentations are set to kick off at about 7 p.m. We’ll be live-streaming the presentations here, so stay tuned for eight-minute pitches from eight Silicon Prairie startups …

  • Cornstalks Demo Night tonight – Live stream at 7 p.m. (tune in here!)

    A limited number of seats remain for tonight’s Cornstalks Demo Night. The event is being held inside Creighton University’s Harper Center and kicks off at 6 p.m. with an hour-long networking reception in…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night companies and details (note: change of venue)

    Nine companies are set to demonstrate their products to a crowd of around 70 people this Thursday, March 31, at Cornstalks, a monthly gathering for entrepreneurs starting or running high-growth businesses.

  • Five Silicon Prairie startups at SXSW and how they fared

    (Photo by Janae Weinbrenner of Imijfoto) Leading up to South by Southwest Interactive I wrote a post about five startups from the Silicon Prairie that I thought had a chance to break out at the five-day conference – “Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW.” With this post, I wasn’t predicting any…

  • Prairie Moves: T8 Webware, The Foundary, PeggyBank & More

    (Photo by Brad Folkens via Flickr) Published every Tuesday, 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,…

  • Hollrback moves forward in TechStars’ Startup Madness

    Hollrback is one win away from the Sweet 16. Of sorts. The Omaha-based startup advanced yesterday to the second round of the Startup Madness Tournament, an NCAA tournament-style contest pitting 64 startups in competition for a grand prize worth more than $25,000. Startups advance through the…

  • Hollrback, ScoreYard, Uppward enter Madness in TechStars contest

    The NCAA men’s basketball tournament doesn’t tip off until later today, but another type of tournament got under way Monday — and some Silicon Prairie startups are vying for the title. Startup accelerator TechStars is sponsoring a Startup Madness Tournament hosted at thisorthat.com. Startup Madness, which is billed as a way to find “the next…

  • Five Silicon Prairie startups that could break out at SXSW

    (Photo from Seth and Alexa Andrzejewski via Flickr.) South by Southwest Interactive isn’t a conference. It isn’t a summit. It isn’t a networking event. And it certainly isn’t a party. Nope, it’s all of those things, and because of that, it makes it one of the best places for a startup to launch or market…

  • Prairie Moves: Josh Dreyer, Jeff Valder, Jonathan Sharp & More

    Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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, please…

  • PrairieCast with Christian Renaud & James Eliason (Video)

    Our guests today were Christian Renaud of StartupCity Des Moines and James Eliason of Eliason Media, Uppward, and Craft.ly. Discussed this week: – From Green Bein’ Productions in Lincoln, Nebraska: “Kid Command adds 56k users in January” – Connecting with software users in real life: Hatchlings meetup in Austin, Texas, and upcoming Dwolla Meetup -…