May 7, 2013

  • A reflection on five years of Big Omaha

    Four and a half years ago, Sarah Lacy came through Omaha on a book tour, and unknowingly changed the entrepreneurial landscape across the Silicon Prairie. It wasn’t any one thing she said to the audience, but rather the mere fact that people gathered together. Here you had a diverse mix of entrepreneurs, creatives, developers, marketers…

  • Dwolla hackathon June 1-2 invites teachers, students “Hack to School”

    Classes may be out for the summer, but Dwolla is bringing teachers, students and administrators back together for its second Des Moines hackathon. …

  • Omawho aims to “keep Omaha’s creative community familiar”

    If you’ve ever struggled to recall the name of someone you recently met, then you can relate to Sumeet Jain, the co-creator of Omawho. “When I moved to Omaha a couple years ago, I starting meeting a lot of people—and I couldn’t always remember their names. So I wanted a way to put faces to…