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Iowa coder, entrepreneur doesn’t let disease stop her from running
Erin Rollenhagen, 33, had run six Dam to Dams when she was diagnosed with early onset Parkinson’s disease. Now more than two years later, Rollenhagen is headed back to the race course, determined not to let the disease get in the way of her love to run. …
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Cedar Falls residents can join Iowa’s first gigabit network for $275/month
Cedar Falls today becomes the first city in Iowa to make the national shortlist of “gigabit cities”—locations where gigabit Internet service …
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Watch EyeVerify, Banno demo their wares at bank tech event Finovate
Kansas City-based EyeVerify and Cedar Falls, Iowa-based Banno recently showcased their work at Finovate, a conference devoted to financial and banking technology. Their presentations, which took place May 14 in San Francisco, are now posted on the Finovate site, which we’ve linked to below. EyeVerify’s Toby Rush, CEO, and Chris Barnett, executive vice …
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Central students plan to pursue two Startup Semester companies
As the first Central College “Startup Semester” draws to a close, students from two of the six companies formed will continue to pursue their business ventures full-time over the summer. This past spring, Wade Steenhoek, director of the college’s Martin Heerema Entrepreneurship …
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The Big Omaha video you’ve been waiting for: Marc Ecko
In one of the most memorable talks in Big Omaha history, the one and only Marc Eckō shared a syllabus of knowledge and transformed our stage into an academic environment complete with tweed jacket and intellectual specs. And to top it off, he had a stiff drink in hand. Drawing inspiration from The Notorious B.I.G.,…
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Failure is focus of KANEKO, Omaha Chamber event Thursday
KANEKO and the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce are teaming up once again to shine a spotlight on failure. Thursday evening at KANEKO, the two groups will present the second installment of Failing Forward Conversations, which will feature …
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Kansas City team shines bright in global NASA Space Apps Challenge
Some of Kansas City’s stellar talent lit up global competition to land two awards in the NASA International Space Apps Challenge. A team of local programmers, designers, project managers and content developers from Salva O’Renick, Ingenology, RareWire, Sprint, Cerner, VML and Waddell & Reed worked on two applications April 20-21 at Ingenology’s offices in the…
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Ben Vu says his family’s journey from Vietnam inspired Battle Bears game
Media coverage of Omaha gaming startup SkyVu Entertainment often notes the irregularity of an animation studio based in Nebraska, but the story of how the company’s creator, Ben Vu, laid roots here has rarely been told. Vu’s parents and older brother immigrated to the state in 1975, fleeing South …