November 3, 2011

  • Startup Weekend KC returns Nov. 11-13 for Global Entrepreneurship Week

    Kansas City will be one of 21 cities participating in Startup Weekend Nov.11-13. The 54-hour event, during which participants build ideas into web or mobile applications that could form the basis of credible businesses, returns to the city as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week sponsored by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Startup Weekend, now an…

  • Nebraska designers’ laptop stand draws praise, needs funds

    A team of Nebraska designers is earning high marks — or even, we dare say, “mad props” — for its new laptop stand, The Prop. Nicholas Pajerski and Justin Brouillette, who work together with a group called MAKE Collaboration, created The Prop, a portable stand composed of two interlocking pieces of inexpensive, lightweight plastic, in…

  • A Thinc Iowa 2011 media roundup

    As we continue debriefing from the first Thinc Iowa, we are humbled by the support of our attendees and compelled to continue the dialogue started at the conference on Oct. 21. We have collected a list from various media outlets that covered the conference and that will help the conversation about Thinc Iowa remain dynamic…

  • Kauffman Foundation brings Startup Weekend into affiliate fold

    A pair of nonprofit organizations that play a prominent role in promoting entrepreneurship on the Silicon Prairie — and across the globe — will now do so in even closer conjunction. The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation today announced that Startup Weekend is now an affiliate of the foundation. Seattle-based Startup Weekend, which…

  • Nebraska Global helping spearhead national skills-based service effort

    Lincoln-based software investment fund Nebraska Global is among some 50 companies receiving recognition today in Washington, D.C. for its role in A Billion + Change, a national campaign to mobilize skills-based and pro bono volunteer services to help build the capacity of nonprofit organizations to effectively meet community needs. Nonprofit, business and government leaders are…