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Rachel Jacobson tells Film Streams story, an art-house theater in Omaha
“I had budgeted initially for 500 members,” Film Streams founder Rachel Jacobson recollected. “I never imagined that we’d have 2,000. I mean, that really just shows how great Omaha is about supporting this kind of thing.” The “thing” Rachel’s referring to is a nonprofit art-house movie theater located in Omaha’s North Downtown District. In the…
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Five in Five with Sara Davidson from Walk, Talk, Chew Gum
Name: Sara Davidson | Full-time job: Marketing Specialist, Consumer/Distribution Marketing at Mutual of Omaha | City blogging from: Omaha | 1. What is the name, subject and URL of your blog? Walk, Talk, Chew Gum is a metaphor about wanting to experience and have it all in life. I use it as a platform to…
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Christian Renaud talks about the needs of a startup community
In the second part of my interview with Christian Renaud, CEO of Palisade Systems, we discussed the entrepreneurial ecosystem in Des Moines. Christian’s broad experience in the entrepreneurial space, including nearly eight years targeting and vetting new markets for Cisco Systems at the company’s San Francisco headquarters, gives him the unique perspective to benchmark the…
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Online Publications on the Prairie: The Post South Dakota
Next up in our series of interviews with online publications emerging on the Silicon Prairie is The Post South Dakota out of Sioux Falls. Although The Post isn’t producing content with the same frequency as yesterday’s spotlight, the Kansas City Free Press, it’s covering a wide variety, as well. From music to local eats to…
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Interviews from YP Summit about #YourSeat2010 and I Live in Omaha
At last Thursday’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit I tracked down two of the individuals behind the two most common phrases of the event: the Twitter hashtag #YourSeat2010 and the blue signs and stickers touting I live in Omaha. First up, Mark Pohl, the chair of this year’s Summit and an employee of the Omaha…