Silicon Prairie

The Silicon Prairie, a take on the Silicon Valley, can refer to one of several places in the United States: in Texas in the Dallas area, one in Illinois; and a multi-state region loosely comprising parts of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Kansas.[1]

Dallas–Fort Worth Silicon Prairie

North Texas's Silicon Prairie refers to north Dallas and Dallas and Fort Worth's northern suburbs, all part of the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It is named for the high concentration of semiconductor manufacturing, telecommunications, and other information technology related companies in the area.

Dallas–Fort Worth area business in these industry sectors include:

The Telecom Corridor in Richardson is usually considered the birthplace of the North Texas Silicon Prairie with Texas Instruments and University of Texas at Dallas dating back to the 1960s.[2][3] There are also a large number of recognized video and computer game developers in the area, known as the Dallas Gaming Mafia, including Gearbox Software, id Software, 3D Realms, Nerve Software, Bonfire Studios/Zynga Dallas, and Ensemble Studios.[4] These videogame studios, especially Gearbox Software, helped get public interest and municipal funding for the National Videogame Museum to make its home in Frisco.[5]

Illinois Silicon Prairie

The Illinois Silicon Prairie typically refers to the Chicago and Champaign/Urbana areas.

The Chicago Metropolitan Area is home to several companies in the industrial automation, consumer electronics, telecommunications, and online services industries. The Illinois Technology and Research Corridor along Interstate 88 and the Golden Corridor along Interstate 90 have particularly high concentrations of such businesses.

Among the Chicago area companies and organizations that comprise the Illinois Silicon Prairie are:

Much of the high technology industry base in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area consists of research and small start-up companies working with the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. Seven Fortune 500 companies have research entities at the university's research park located in Champaign. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications is in Urbana.[6]

Midwest Silicon Prairie

An area of the Midwestern United States is often referred to as the Silicon Prairie. This region can loosely be defined as the states bordering along Interstate 29 in the Upper Midwest; mainly Missouri, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, South Dakota, and Nebraska.[7]

Gateway

Computer company Gateway 2000 and several other companies began using the moniker in the mid -1990s in advertisements and promotional materials.[8]

Silicon Prairie Communications (prairie.net) - ISP and regional BBS

Founded in 1992, Silicon Prairie Communications started as a regional BBS and UUCP gateway, expanding to a boutique ISP that still serves as the delegated admin for a large group of .us domain localities, both regionally in Iowa and several large metro cities.

Silicon Prairie News

"Scale Computing" Scale Computing eliminates traditional virtualization software, disaster recovery software, servers, and shared storage. Fully integrated, highly available.

In 2008, the online technology and entrepreneurial news publication Silicon Prairie News[9] was founded to highlight achievements of companies in the region's principal cities such as Des Moines, Kansas City, St. Louis, Omaha, Sioux Falls and any adjacent cities.[10]

Silicon Prairie Portal & Exchange d/b/a Silicon Prairie Online

In 2016, the MNvest portal operator Silicon Prairie Online[11] received registration approval from the Minnesota Department of Commerce [12] to commence operations as a JOBS Act approved crowdfunding portal operator.[13]

Iowa Governor Culver

In 2009, Governor Chet Culver (D-Iowa) used the term to describe his desired future reputation for his state after their investment in wind and other renewable energy industries.[14]

ISU Research Park

Ames, Iowa [15]

Workiva - An Ames, Iowa-based business enterprise software company. In 2016 Workiva received the Technology Association of Iowa's Prometheus Award for Top Growth Company of the Year.[16]

Des Moines

Dwolla - A mobile payment company,[17] whose business model includes speeding up business to business and business to consumer transactions and payments.[18]

Nebraska Angels[19] - An Omaha-based group of approximately 60 investors[20] who fund local start-ups.

References
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  2. The Tale of a Happy Union Between UTD and Richardson
  3. UT Dallas Timeline
  4. D Magazine
  5. Dallas News
  6. Tech News World" Silicon Prairie May Be Fertile Ground for Emerging Homeland Security Biz." Originally published 7 March 2006. Retrieved 30 March 2007.
  7. Rubin, Josh (2010-07-16). "Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie'". CNN.com. Retrieved 2010-07-16.
  8. Lohr, Steve (1997-09-04). "Gateway 2000 Chairman Blames Haste for Earnings Lag". New York Times. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
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  10. "About Silicon Prairie News". Silicon Prairie News. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
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  12. "" MNvest Approved Portal Operators
  13. "Second Equity Crowdfunding Portal Goes Live in Minnesota". Twin Cities Business. 2016-12-19.
  14. Strawn, Jessi (2009-08-06). "Governor visits Iowa State as part of renewable energy tour". Iowa State University Featured News. Retrieved 2009-10-31.
  15. http://www.isupark.org/
  16. http://siliconprairienews.com/2016/04/iowa-2016-prometheus-award-winners-include-funnelwise-kinosol/
  17. https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/22/us/silicon-prairie-takes-root-in-the-great-plains.html
  18. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-09-27/congratulations-america-your-paycheck-will-soon-clear-in-one-day
  19. Schaper, David "Silicon Prairie: Tech Startups Find A Welcoming Home In The Midwest", "All Things Considered", March 12, 2015. Retrieved on Oct. 20, 2016
  20. http://nebraskaangels.org/about/
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