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People in pink at Big Omaha 2012
In the wake of our standard post-conference startup swag post and in my best Bill Cunningham form, I present you pictures of people in pink at Big Omaha 2012. The branding for the conference involved a lot of pink, and plenty of conference-goers donned one shade or another of the bold color. …
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Fast Company honors faces familiar to the Silicon Prairie community
We’re thrilled to see Fast Company’s “100 Most Creative People in Business” list released on Monday. This year’s list features four faces familiar to the Silicon Prairie community as introduced to us through Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa over the last year. …
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Brian Wong’s 10 steps to controlling your own luck (Video)
Brian Wong, the founder of mobile rewards network kiip, pulled from his personal and professional experience as an entrepreneur to convince the Big Omaha 2012 audience that people can create their own luck. “I’m here to say that you can control it,” Wong said Friday. “And I’m going give you 10 steps to do that…
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What Cheer uses DonorsChoose API to highlight Omaha schools in need
Charles Best created DonorsChoose to make it easy for anyone to help students in need. Last week, the crew from What Cheer made it a little easier Best spoke Friday morning at Big Omaha about DonorsChoose, the website he founded that allows public school teachers to post classroom project requests and, in turn, lets donors…