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Behind the scenes of Zaarly’s SXSW launch
As I prepared for the trip down to Austin, Texas for South by Southwest Interactive earlier this month, I kept a close eye on the Silicon Prairie attendee Twitter stream to see what folks from the region were up to in Austin. The expected tweets about panels and parties raised my anticipation as usual, but…
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Entrepreneurs honored, business ideas pitched at innovation events
The Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship started last week with Innovation Night on Monday and then Tuesday held a venture competition, the Nebraska Innovation Competition. At this year’s Innovation Night, current entrepreneurs were honored with the Nebraska Distinguished Entrepreneur Award. This year’s recipients were Charlie Hull and Clint Runge of Archrival, Steve Kiene of Nebraska Global…
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Startup Drinks, Twestivals, Hacks/Hackers & More
There’s a nice variety of events happening on the Silicon Prairie this week. Things kick off tonight with Startup Drinks Des Moines and tomorrow there’s a Business Innovation Zone luncheon with Dwolla’s Ben Milne that should be a great startup event, as well. This week also sees the return of the annual Twestival, a global…
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Green Bein’ awarded $50K to help expand business in Lincoln (Video)
Green Bein’ Productions, Inc. won Invest Nebraska’s third annual venture competition last week at the Embassy Suites in Lincoln. Last Tuesday, Green Bein’ and the four other finalists competed for $50,000. The Lincoln-based entrepreneurs were given 15 minutes and then had an opportunity to answer judges’ questions. “All five of them did a really great…