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FanWord is a comprehensive college sports app
A tennis scholarship brought Christopher Aumueller from Germany to Nebraska for college. A business idea spawned from the sport’s frustrating lack of attention is keeping him here as the Founder of FanWord, a comprehensive college sports app. “My sophomore year, we qualified for nationals for the first time in school history,” Aumueller said. “There was…
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Beth McKeon steps into Brian Ardinger’s role for NMotion in 2017
Earlier this year, Beth McKeon joined the team at Lincoln’s NMotion Accelerator as Program Manager. Now she is moving into the lead role as founder Brian Ardinger moves to Econic full-time. What does this mean for her and NMotion? “I think Lincoln is ready to level up as a community,” she said. “That’s not a…
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Decision Logic uses data to save millions for restaurant franchises
Restaurants manage mounds of information every day, from personnel and schedules to sales and ‘variance,’ the discrepancy between inventory on hand and the amount used. “There’s waste, and it’s real money,” said Ryan Mack, Vice President of Lincoln’s Decision Logic. “Profit is leaking out the back door.” Like many industries, until recently the processes around…
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MusicSpoke pitches at Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Demo Day in STL
On November 9th Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator held their Demo Day in St. Louis. Lincoln’s MusicSpoke co-founder Jennifer Rosenblatt joined this year’s cohort after reading an article in SPN. MusicSpoke is an online marketplace for artist-owned sheet music. SPN caught up with Rosenblatt to see how it went. “It’s been a busy few days,” she said. “It was…
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Custom software company Agilx finds its “sweet spot” in Lincoln’s Haymarket
About 18 months ago SPN profiled Dustin Clonch and Jake McElroy, co-founders of Lincoln technology company Agilx. We sat down with them again to get an update. For starters, the custom software company has moved from the Nebraska Technology Park into space formerly occupied by FUSE Coworking in the Haymarket. How’s that working out “We love…
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Phynd proves the model for “rural sourcing” startups [Updated]
As the landscape of U.S. health care changes, startups are emerging around patient monitoring, nursing practices and managing information about licensed providers. “The geography of providers is shifting away from hospital location-centric, said Tom White, CEO and Founder of Dallas and Kearney, Nebraska, startup Phynd. “It’s moving to a network that goes out and recruits a bunch of…
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Ocuvera’s predictive algorithm knows when patients will get out of bed
A patient falling in a nursing home is considered a “never” event. It should never happen. But what if it does? “It’s a big problem,” said Paul Bauer, Product Manager for Lincoln startup Ocuvera. “Medicare or Medicaid may not pay for care resulting from falls. Quality metrics may be impacted, bad things that can be…
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The Poultry Exchange offers an online marketplace for chicken meat
Most chicken meat is sold by contract, but about 10-20% is sold on the spot market, a labor-intensive process that requires a lot of phone calls. “There’s a sense of drudgery,” said Janette Barnard, Founder & CEO of The Poultry Exchange. “Less than 10% of the volume takes 40% of the time.” And the buyers…
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Why Silicon Valley startup Monolith expanded to Lincoln, Nebraska
Monolith Materials, a Silicon Valley industrial tech startup, announced plans about a year ago to build a carbon black manufacturing plant near Lincoln. This week the company upped the ante by stating its intent to locate its manufacturing headquarters in Lincoln. “We’re taking it a step further,” said co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer Rob Hanson…
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Beehive Industries solves infrastructure headaches for local governments
The asset management platform meets the growing demand for better municipal software. Local governments often struggle to manage and keep track of infrastructure and assets like power lines and heavy equipment because of outdated processes and legacy systems. Lincoln startup Beehive Industries is changing that. “Frankly, the thing we run into most is that an organization’s things…