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Your Happy Plate wins Startup Weekend Omaha (full results)
Full post coming soon, but the results are… 1. Your Happy Plate – Mobile app for people with special dietary needs; yourhappyplate.com, @yourhappyplate, Your Happy Plate on Facebook 2/3. (Tie) Gossip Closet – Social game that involves scanning of bar codes on clothing and sharing the items with your friends – gossip-closet.kickofflabs.com, @gossipclosetapp, Gossip Closet…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Final pitches live-streaming at 7 p.m.
Startup Weekend Omaha concludes tonight with a whopping 18 teams pitching their products to a panel of four judges and the crowd gathered at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner, followed by presentations at 7. And if you can’t be among the crowd at Mammel Hall?…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: The 18 teams (with links) and Day 3 photos
Day three of Startup Weekend Omaha is well under way as our some of the teams products, with previews of a few of them on the web. Stay tuned for a post later today with the embedded video as we live stream the pitches starting at 7 p.m. tonight. Each team will have five minutes…
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Guest Post: Of internships and new grads
(This is a guest post by Doug Durham.) Internships are new to us. In fact, hiring people straight out of college is new to us. Historically, we have built our teams by hiring experienced (or relatively experienced) people often via word of mouth recommendations. We have always been quite protective of our culture and the…
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Sunday Video: Eric Ries on building the minimum viable product
At Startup Weekend Omaha? If so, watch this video. In a 2009 presentation a part of Standford University’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Lecture Series, Eric Ries gave an hour-long talk on the “lean startup,” a topic which he’s become the leading voice, evangelist and most recently author of – Ries book, “The Lean Startup,” was released…