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YouthfulNest brings eDesign to children’s rooms and nurseries
When Lisa Janvrin found herself moving from New York to Omaha after the 2008 market crash, she didn’t anticipate the move would eventually lead her to join the ranks of the Silicon Prairie’s female founders. But through identifying a gap in the Midwest’s interior design services, the concept for YouthfulNest was born. YouthfulNest is an…
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State of Our City event will challenge young professionals to take actionable results
Next month’s Greater Omaha Chamber Young Professionals’ State of Our City event will bring an open dialogue on building a strong city to Omaha’s impassioned, young professionals. State of Our City is extending conversations that began at this year’s YP Summit and opening a new discussion on what Omaha should look like, focus on and…
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Commerce Village coworking space brings new life to old building
When renovations began in 2015 on a nearly 100-year-old mail terminal in downtown Omaha, the plan was to once again make the building an active commercial hub. Two years later, the renamed Rail & Commerce Building opened its doors to entrepreneurs, creatives, and thinkers and welcomed them to Omaha’s newest coworking space, Commerce Village. Just…
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Kansas City Startup launches grass-fed beef delivery services
Kansas City-based River Watch Beef recently announced an expansion of their regional delivery service to include all 48 contiguous states. Chris Kovac, founder of the food startup, said that beef and commodity markets can be hard to anticipate so to solve that problem, the company takes their product directly to consumers. “Our goal at River…
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Universal Information Services introduces AI powered press clipping platform
Omaha-based Universal Information Services recently announced the release of the world’s first press clipping service enhanced with artificial intelligence. The unveiling came during the 49th World Media Intelligence Congress in Berlin, Germany. The Alpha Clips news monitoring service focuses on the origins of news stories that are commonly shared online, delivering them in a format…
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Appsky Labs builds apps, supports other small businesses
When Appsky Labs founder Taylor Korensky graduated from UNOmaha’s IT Innovation Program in 2016, he was already freelancing in iOS development. “A lot of that program focuses on business development, product development, and the technical side of things,” said Korensky. “Through that program, I really found a passion for mobile development and spun my career…
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Johego improves social service access in Missouri’s communities
Michael Kehoe recognized a gap in the social enterprise space while attending church one Sunday morning. “I decided to stick around for free donuts and coffee after church […] and I observed an elderly gentleman approach a very haggard stranger and patiently inquire about the stranger’s needs,” said Kehoe. “By memory, he directed him to…
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NMotion Labs launches 2017 fall cohort
NMotion Labs, a new 7-week mini accelerator from NMotion, kicked off its inaugural cohort at the beginning of October. The program was previously known as “Prelaunch” and was designed as a way to help potential founders explore their business ideas and establish whether or not those ideas were something that could lead to the launch…
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Archrival successfully grows company culture by taking risks
Archrival moved into Lincoln’s Haymarket ten years ago and quickly established itself as the cool kid on the block––not surprising since the creative agency specializes in youth brands and culture. As the firm’s client base grew all the way to the coasts, their headquarters grew too. Archrival co-founder and Managing Director Clint! Runge said they…
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Plastomics is growing the next generation of crops with agtech
The FAO’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development has set 17 sustainable development goals and global objectives aimed at improving global conditions in a variety of areas like poverty, hunger, climate change and sustaining natural resources. At the heart of these initiatives is agriculture. According to the FAO, in order to ensure a global food supply…