December 6, 2010

  • SaaS startup idea wins UNL Venture Plan Competition

    (Left: Undergraduate division winners Alex DeBrie and Mike Ritner of Kid Safe-D Net) This past Friday night, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) students brought their ideas out in force, from an engineering firm to a software as a service (SaaS) startup monitoring and limiting children’s internet access. In all, nine students representing eight teams…

  • On TechCrunch: Planely – On the Silicon Prairie: Uppward

    In preparation for her upcoming trip to the LeWeb conference this week, TechCrunch writer Alexia Tsotsis tried out the service of one of the conference’s partners, Planely, a web-based app designed to help you connect with other passengers on your flight. After signing up and entering her flight details, a match was made. She learned…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Melody McCloskey of StyleSeat

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re excited to release the next video in our Big Omaha 2010 video series, that of Melody McCloskey, co-founder of StyleSeat, a San Francisco-based company providing online tools for beauty, health, and wellness professionals to build and grow their businesses. McCloskey previously managed video analytics and started the digital…

  • Interaction Designer, E-Commerce Marketer & Java Software Engineer

    We’re excited to bring you our thirty-third Opportunities on the Prairie today with positions from Hudl in Lincoln as well as Oriental Trading and Database101.com in Omaha.