September 26, 2012

  • Traffic and sales soar, investors call on eCreamery post-Shark Tank

    eCreamery founders Becky App and Abby Jordan didn’t walk away from their appearance on ABC’s “Shark Tank” (above) with the $250,000 investment they sought from the show’s panel of celebrity investor judges. But even though the Sharks didn’t bite on eCreamery, plenty of others have since the show aired on Friday. In a phone interview…

  • Prairie Portrait: Beka Doolittle of The Pink Store

    Silicon Prairie News: For those who aren’t familiar with The Pink Store’s origins, what’s the story behind the business? | Beka Doolittle: I was living in a house with our three teenage boys and my hubby when the idea for The Pink Store came to me. I knew I wasn’t the only one who loves…

  • Watch the eight pitches of Startup Weekend Omaha (Video)

    After the winner of the fourth Startup Weekend Omaha was named Sunday, event judge Mark Crawford, CEO of Invest Nebraska, called the eigtht ideas pitched “extremely diverse.” “It wasn’t all software,” event judge Bart Dillashaw, an attorney and the president of the Nebraska Angels, said. “You had some hardware and stuff that was like games.”…