June 24, 2011

  • How Silicon Prairie cities stack up in Business Journals rankings

    The Business Journals have recently published results from a handful of noteworthy On Numbers surveys, providing a quantitative measure of how the cities of the Silicon Prairie stack up against other cities across the country in a few categories of interest. But, before we get down to the numbers, I’ll make a disclaimer: I haven’t…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Neil Blumenthal of Warby Parker

    Today, we’re pleased to share with the you the third video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. The video features Neil Blumenthal, one of the Founders of Warby Parker, a company that he and three friends launched in early 2010 with the belief “that eyewear can be a powerful…

  • Weekly Wrap-Up: College World Series edition

    Back by overwhelming popular demand, Jeff Slobotski and Brittany Mascio co-hosted the Weekly Wrap-Up for a second straight week. Following on the heels of a magical WWU debut peppered with lively banter and timeless pop music references, our resident Regis and Rippa brought their ‘A’ game again today. By the way, today’s WWU title is…

  • Demo setter, social media director, designer, programmer and more

    We’re excited to bring you our 59th Opportunities on the Prairie today, with positions with Verdis Group, SubscriptionGenius, Dundee Venture Capital, Hayneedle in …

  • With $750k angel round, stealthy LiveOn set to come alive August 15

    In classic startup fashion, LiveOn co-founder and CEO Jonathan Whistman described his idea in a phone interview earlier this week: “It’s almost like Facebook meets Ancestory.com meets time travel.” As a former business development and sales consultant, Whistman executed on his idea with a classic business strategy: the cold call. “I started trying …

  • Artists behind Big Omaha exhibit open gallery in Midtown Crossing

    As I’ve written about before, one of my favorite parts of Big Omaha are the artists who contribute their time and talents to help us bring a unique and memorable experience to our attendees. At this year’s event, we had four artists or artist groups with installations ranging from a game utilizing QR codes codes…

  • Jerod Santo wins Hacker News API contest with HN Trends

    As an almost daily reader of Y Combinator’s Hacker News (HN) for more than three years and one of the social news site’s top 50 karma point holders, Jerod Santo fully appreciated the latest enhancement of the site, HNSearch, which was released June 4. (Photo courtesy of Santo) “Hacker News has long needed site search,”…