September 16, 2013

  • MindMixer’s chief designer creates poster for charity: water campaign

    We so often hear of the incredible results that can be traced back to relationships built here on the Silicon Prairie, and here’s yet another tale of the good those connections can yield. Tyler Riewer, content strategist at charity: water in New York City, reached out to 14 designers, including Justin Kemerling, chief design officer…

  • Co-founders sell Big Blue Window, focus efforts fully on Bawte

    Since 2004, Big Blue Window, an ecommerce retailer for window grilles, has been a project of John Jackovin and his long-time business partner, Tom Love. That is, until recently when the pair sold the company to focus their efforts fully on Bawte, another company Jackovin and Love co-founded …

  • Cympel shares 5 conference lessons learned at TechCrunch Disrupt

    Last week the Omaha-based Cympel team—a digital advertising agency—hopped on a red-eye flight to San Francisco carrying a small banner and orange tablecloth and made its way to TechCrunch Disrupt. The Disrupt conference is one of the startup world’s most notable launching pads for budding technologies. Its star-studded speaker lineup included the likes of SV…

  • Startup Genome announces Kauffman grant, launches redesign

    Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced today that it’s awarded a grant to Startup Genome, a free online platform that builds tools to help community builders measure and grow local startup communities …