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SPN Out & About: Visiting San Francisco August 1-3
Next Wednesday, Dusty Reynolds, the director of innovation and entrepreneurship for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, and I will touch down in San Francisco for three days of meetings with entrepreneurs and investors in the area. Though we’re based in the Midwest, it’s important to continue conversations and develop new relationships with other key…
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Wednesday Whimsy: Bobby Convey will now tout his teammates’ tweets
As we’ve discussed before, there are lots of reasons that Sporting Kansas City is widely regarded as one the most technologically savvy outfits in all of professional sports Midfielder Bobby Convey is not one of those reasons. Kansas City’s Major League Soccer franchise has its own technology spinoff, Sporting Innovations, and a stadium, Livestrong Sporting…
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Journalists and news outlets find a new tool in VoterTide
VoterTide, a tool used by politicians to monitor social media activity, is now receiving recognition as a tool for journalists and media outlets as well. The Omaha-based startup has been cited over the past few months as a source for several mainstream media outlets, including Adweek, PBS News Hour, Businessweek (above) and, more locally, the…
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RAZ Mobile launches looking to help nonprofits fundraise via mobile web
Today marks the launch of RĀZ Mobile, an Overland Park, Kan. startup dedicated to helping nonprofits and other causes raise money via mobile web pages. As we reported about a year ago, the company raised $150,000 from local angels last August. Founder Dale Knoop said RĀZ Mobile closed on a second angel round in April…
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Hudl, Proxibid find common ground at Chamber event on innovation
For all the high marks Hudl has earned over the last half-decade — and the company, which has grown from 12 high school clients in 2008 to about two thirds of the high school football teams in the country this year, has had plenty of positive report cards — Hudl co-founder and chief product officer…