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NMotion, Straight Shot & SPN partner for Aug. 12 “Halfway Point Meetup”
Silicon Prairie News is partnering with Nebraska’s two startup accelerator programs for a unique meetup that will attempt to engage the Omaha and Lincoln communities. Lincoln’s NMotion and Omaha’s Straight Shot saw the launch of their programs in early June. As we reach August, the respective classes are passing the halfway point. With the last…
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Second round of Mozilla Gigabit Fund projects launch in KC
For communities with Gigabit connectivity, like Google Fiber, the question has become how to get the most out of a high-speed Internet connection. And through a program run by Mozilla, 10 more solutions will receive about $165,400 to try to do so…
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Bodeefit CEO: How to make noise if your startup is bootstrapped
The way Adam Griffin, CEO of Bodeefit, sees it, startups have a few avenues for growth. There’s venture capital, there’s bootstrapping it yourself and there’s growing without paying for it. And by not paying he means inbound selling and what he calls programmatic selling. Griffin spoke with the seven Straight Shot accelerator teams last week…
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Ev Williams, Kevin Rose and more talk upbringing, overcoming fear
Antonio Neves sits down with Evan Williams, Kevin Rose, Ingrid Sanders and Alexis Tryon, covering a number of topics ranging from childhood to “attempted” retirement.
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iKC announces VegasTechFund’s Andy White as keynote
There are lots of way to help celebrate and grow a local startup community. At iKC: The Unconference, that means getting leaders from all different areas together in the same room and getting them to talk about what they find important.