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Join us for the Silicon Prairie News Meetup on July 7 at Amici Espresso
I’m very excited to announce our first Silicon Prairie News meetup in Des Moines! Please join us for Happy Hour from 5-6:30 p.m at Amici Espresso downtown for casual conversation and drinks. A big part of the mission of Silicon Prairie News is to bring people together and we haven’t, yet, had the chance for…
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Messages and images from Maker Faire: Kansas City
On Saturday, I made it out to the first full-blown Maker Faire put on by anyone other that Make Magazine and O’Reilly Media. O’Reilly Media developed a playbook for organizing and executing the event, and Kansas City was home to the pilot of that program, using the historic Union Station as the venue. The event…
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Big Omaha alumni Andrzejewski, Hauser make Inc. list of 30 Under 30
Chalk it up to the Big Omaha bump. OK, no, don’t chalk it up to that at all. That Foodspotting’s Alexa Andrzejewski and Grasshopper’s David Hauser made this year’s Inc. list of 30 Under 30 has everything to do with Andrezejewski and Hauser’s hard work and execution on big ideas, not their work on stage…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Ben Huh of Cheezburger Network
Today we’re pleased to share with the you the sixth video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. In the video above, Ben Huh, founder and CEO of Cheezburger Network, shares his story from his humble beginnings with I Can Has Cheezburger in September 2007 to today, overseeing a network…
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Startup Spaces: CAMP Coworking, Omaha’s first coworking space
School’s out, but CAMP is in session. Last week, we ran an update on the progress Omaha’s CAMP Coworking (1111 North 13th St.) experienced in its first year. Today, we want to provide a visual of the collaborative workspace. Megan Hunt, the owner of CAMP, recently said via Twitter, “Someday I want to tell the…
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With the Smart Station, GiqueGEAR has your smartphone covered
It’s clear in the way he addresses the subject of smartphones that GiqueGEAR co-founder Todd Arendt has a tendency to, well, geek out about the devices. But for all his excitement over smartphones, Arendt …