April 14, 2012

  • Photos and project updates from Day 2 of Startup Weekend Kansas City

    Swelling skies appeared likely to put the breaks on outdoor activities at any moment this afternoon in Kansas City, Mo., but that certainly didn’t slow the speed of progress inside the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Board Room (left) at Union Station. There, 12 teams and 98 participants in total busily built their ideas…

  • The nine teams of Hack Omaha, a public data competition

    Hack Omaha, a weekend programming competition during which participants are challenged to turn a local dataset of public government information into something useful, is off and running with more than 50 developers, designers, journalists and civic instigators gathered in the Omaha World-Herald building’s first and second floors. The inaugural event kicked off Friday …

  • Weekly Startup Links: ‘Selling Versus Selling Out’ and more

    Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.