Midwest
Silicon Prairie Social
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007I recently had the chance to interview Tim Courtney of Silicon Prairie Social. It’s an interesting idea and Tim seems to be having lots of success with it. The Q&A is below.
1. How did Silicon Prairie originate? Where did the idea come from?
Our company, XNet is a successful Internet startup from […]
Fargo, ND - New Microsoft Hotspot
Thursday, May 24th, 2007Fargo, ND just got put on the tech map thanks to a move by Microsoft to expand its Fargo campus with a new 120,000-square-foot building.
This great news for the start up community in Fargo. The facility will add demand for 575 more tech-oriented employees, and thus will facilitate a stronger technology culture […]
Vidoop - Tulsa, Oklahoma
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007One of the hottest companies of the year comes from a city with less than 400,000 people. Vidoop is making waves at conferences, trade shows, and all over the web with their visual password technology for better system security.
People are lax with their passwords, so I think this is a great way to improve […]
MacMeter - Voting on What’s Hot in the Apple/Mac Community
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007Louisville entrepreneur Ben Thomas recently launched MacMeter, his third entry into the web startup world. MacMeter is a niche social voting site where users submit and rank stories about Apple and/or Macs. Ben considers the site to be like Digg, without all the noise.
My reason for creating this site was definitely not to […]
Mom and Pop Motels
Wednesday, April 18th, 2007Over the past three years I have been fortunate enough to travel across 14 countries and roughly 12 States. During this span I have literally slept everywhere. Hotels, motels, inns, hostels, train stations, airports, condos, bed and breakfasts – you name it.
The over-riding conclusion I have arrived at during the course of my (sleepless) […]
Search Kindly - Search to benefit charity
Sunday, April 1st, 2007 I conducted an interview with Syed Karim, founder of searchkindly.org, a search engine that donates money from your searches to charity. Every time you visit the site, Syed and his team donate ad revenue portions to charity. Syed is a student at Lake Forest College in Chicago, with a self-designed major in Social Entrepreneurship.
What […]
Sparkmeter - Rate The Political Bias In News Stories
Wednesday, March 28th, 2007Louisville entrepreneur Ben Thomas recently launched SparkMeter - a social news website that lets the community vote on the relative bias in news articles. According to Ben:
It provides a platform for you to react to political punditry by rating news and comments as leaning-left, leaning-right, and objective.
The media has feigned objectivity for decades. […]
Reputation Defender - Louisville, KY
Monday, March 5th, 2007Louisville entrepreneur and Harvard Law graduate Michael Fertik has launched a new company called ReputationDefender. From the website:
Our trained and expert online reputation advocates use an array of proprietary techniques developed in-house to correct and/or completely remove the selected unwanted content from the web. This is an arduous and labor-intensive task, but we take […]
SalaryScout
Monday, January 8th, 2007Louisville entrepreneur Ben Thomas has launched an interesting new site called SalaryScout. Users can submit salary information anonymously, and compare their compensation with others. From the site:
Let’s face it, salary negotiations are difficult, and in most cases extremely uncomfortable. SalaryScout can help reduce some of that stress by giving you enough confidence to […]
