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Lincoln Startup Week returns September 25-30
Startup Week returns to Lincoln with programming and events running September 25-30. The 6th annual Lincoln Startup Week is a five-day celebration of the local community that builds momentum and opportunity around entrepreneurship, led by entrepreneurs and hosted in Lincoln’s favorite entrepreneurial spaces. ‘We have seen lots of growth over the last 6 years, not…
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This $50,000 demo day shows how communities can support startups
If you’ve ever moved, you know how awful moving really is. Five years ago, my wife and I and our three kids moved from Arizona to Florida to Missouri in the span of six months. The fact that a beta fish was the only living thing we lost track of still amazes me. The fact…
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HDC 2017 welcomed over 800 developers to Omaha
AIM Heartland Developers Conference (HDC) returned last week to the Embassy Suites Conference Center in La Vista, Nebraska. The 14th annual HDC event included hands-on workshops, speakers, breakout sessions and networking events. HDC is 3-day software development event for tech professionals where attendees learn from national industry experts as well as regional and local leaders…
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TS Bank brings back REV pitch competition, offers $25,000 prize
Applications for REV, TS Bank’s annual pitch competition are now open. For the last two years, TS Bank has sponsored a pitch competition for businesses and entrepreneurs where applicants compete to win up to $25,000. Through the program, over $50,000 has been distributed to small businesses to help ignite their business. Previous winners include FliteBrite…
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AIM HDC launches Startup Connections event
New this year to the AIM Heartland Developers Conference is Startup Connections, a networking event geared towards merging developers and attendees in order to promote the sharing of ideas and expertise across the Silicon Prairie community. AIM HDC Startup Connections will take place Friday, September 8 from 10-1:30 and will feature six area tech startups…
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vGolf is the first mixed reality golf simulator
Tom Kudirka, founder of Omaha-based vGolf, is building on his experience from the video game world to release the world’s first mixed reality golf simulator. The simulator allows the user to virtually play a real world golf course by wearing a pair of augmented reality glasses and hitting a ball into a net or onto a…
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St. Louis Announces $5 Million Dollar “Spirit of St. Louis” Seed Stage Fund
Paul Heirendt, a principal at True Bearing Advisors and co-founder of multiple startups, has first-hand experience with how hard it can be for entrepreneurs to find seed funding in St. Louis. “Of the nine startups I’ve been involved with in St. Louis in the last few years, four had to relocate to find adequate seed-stage funding,” said Heirendt. Relocation is far from the worst thing that can happen to…
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Startup messaging: Your story is your strategy
This is the third installment of a multi-part series authored by The Startup Collaborative cofounding team: The Death (or Evolution) of Startup Accelerators and Incubators as We Know Them! –– Your startup’s story IS your startup’s strategy, at least according to Ben Horowitz. We tend to agree at The Startup Collaborative. Casting a vision, clearly…
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What goes into concepting a new social media network?
After talking with a retired basketball professional at a state tournament who was looking for a way to connect with youth in need of coaching, CEO and Founder Frank Emsick had an idea for a new type of social platform. Social networks aren’t built overnight though, and now Emsick is learning first-hand that it takes…
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Eleven Nebraska startups that could be the next big thing
This article originally appeared on canworksmart.com. __ Nebraska is not California. Omaha is not San Francisco. This sounds glaringly obvious but sometimes entrepreneurs in the Midwest get caught up in proving that we’re the same as any other startup scene in the country. But we’re not… and that’s okay! It doesn’t mean we don’t have…