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What’s a successful viral app look like? How about a six-hour drive?
On Monday we posted a story about Hatchlings running a charity campaign called “You Play, We Pay.” Hatchlings, which can be described as a virtual egg hunt inside of Facebook and other online apps, plans to give a total of $60,000 to three causes. In our story, Hatchlings founder Brad Dwyer told us…
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Graphic.ly draws in Ninth Division – ‘Extension of current dev team’
In late January we reported on a local connection to the $3 million funding round of Boulder, Colorado-based Graphic.ly (left, icon of their iPad app). Omaha-based Dundee Venture Capital participated in that round and we grabbed an interview with Dundee’s founder Mark Hasebroock the day the story broke. With this story, we’re a good week…
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Storenvy founder shares story of seed round, Y Combinator rejection
Being an entrepreneur is pretty awesome, right? We love being our own boss and seeing our ideas come to life. But being an entrepreneur is not so easy either. There are many days you wake up and ask yourself what the hell were you thinking quitting that day job and bootstrapping it? Thankfully, we have…
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2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship – Fri., Feb. 25
Hopefully this post isn’t too late for you to take the day off or make plans for a short road trip to La Vista next Friday, February 25th to attend this year’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship. With an increased tech and creative presence on the speaker lineup (which includes our own co-founder, Dusty Davidson), we’re…