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Wired cover story includes a look at Omaha’s downtown revival
This coming month’s issue of Wired Magazine, which hit newsstands earlier this week, features a cover story, Smart Jobs,” that should be of high interest to our readers for a few reasons. First, the article takes a statistical look at something we’re dedicated to covering. “Work is out there,” page 134 states. “It’s cropping up…
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Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT: Hollrback demoing at SF New Tech
Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT tonight to watch Gabe Kangas of the Omaha-based startup Hollrback give a 5-minute demo his mobile contact management app at SF New Tech, a monthly meetup with more than 5,000 members. In preparation for tonight’s event, I caught up with Kangas today by email. He said that he had…
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BIZ Luncheon Series: Matt Kinley of Equity Dynamics on equity capital
Mike Colwell, director of the Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, holds an educational luncheon series for entrepreneurs across central Iowa called the Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series. Each luncheon features a speaker from the community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high-growth and…
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Nebraska Global’s Kiene, Smith to speak Thursday at Cornstalks
Steve Kiene and Patrick Smith of Nebraska Global will speak at Cornstalks on Thursday night at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce downtown office (1301 Harney). Networking starts at 6:30 p.m., and the presentation follows at 7:30. Kiene is managing principal and Smith is …
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A Big Omaha thank you to all our sponsors!
As the community continues the process of digesting the ideas shared and connections made at Big Omaha 2011, we’d like to use this week to thank our sponsors, an amazing group of companies who made it possible for us to put on the event that was enjoyed by, and inspired, so many. Much like the…
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Join us tonight! Silicon Prairie News Meetup at 5 p.m.
Come on over to blanc burgers + bottles sometime between 5 and 7 p.m. today for our second Silicon Prairie News Meetup in Omaha. Just weeks off the heels of Big Omaha, this will be a great time to chat about what you learned or what you’re now inspired to do, and if you didn’t…
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View from the FishBowl: Are we there yet?
I remember when I was a kid and my two sisters and I would load up in the Buick to go to Grandma Fisher’s house or maybe one of my aunts/uncles. Why do I only remember that we loaded up to go to grandma’s or maybe one of our aunts or uncles? Because, for the…
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PrairieCast with Andy & Geoff (Video)
Discussed this week: “Zaarly app now live, offers being posted on the Silicon Prairie,” “Using Zaarly, an impromptu Dwollapalooza is held,” Silicon Prairie storylines at TechCrunch Disrupt, “Google to expand ultra high-speed network to Kansas City, Mo.,” “With Design+Tech, Morrow looks to spur community to design for web,” “With planned focus groups …