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  • 1 Million Cups Omaha-Lincoln set for Wednesday launch, will split meetups

    In Des Moines and Kansas City, Wednesday mornings mean coffee and sharing ideas with other entrepreneurs. Now two more Silicon Prairie cities—Omaha and Lincoln—are being added to the 1 Million Cups roster. “After seeing the impact 1 Million Cups has had on neighboring cities, we’re excited to bring the event to Nebraska,” said organizer Shane…

  • Reddit co-founder schedules stop in Lincoln next week during book tour

    Next Wednesday, Oct. 23, reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will be making a stop in Lincoln as part of a five-month tour to promote his book, Without Their Permission. Wednesday evening Ohanian will make an appearance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln …

  • Lincoln-based Travefy launches redesign, closes $320K seed round

    After launching their public beta back in January, co-founders David Chait and Chris Davis have been working to make Travefy the go-to option for planning a group trip. Since then, they’ve introduced a major redesign and distilled the user experience to a dead-simple interface …

  • Lincoln Startup Week continues with family-friendly competition

    Those who attended the inaugural Lincoln Startup Week last year will remember the breathless excitement that surrounded it. Organizers and attendees alike seemed a bit awestruck whenever they talked about how the week had rather spontaneously come together. “It just sort of happened,” said Social Assurance’s Ben Pankonin while presenting Startup Weekend Lincoln prizes on…

  • Startup Weekend Lincoln winner helps fitness instructors find subs

    Exercise My Schedule, “a better way to manage group fitness scheduling,” emerged from a field of six as the winner of Startup Weekend Lincoln. A marketing consultant by day and fitness instructor by night, Ali Schwanke came up with the idea for Exercise My Schedule. In her pitch Sunday night, Schwanke explained that her email…

  • Lincoln-based firm creates apps that use data to improve lives

    Technically, Lincoln-based app shop SectorNow has a massive mission: to use data to improve people’s lives. “We want to build really niche products that meet specific market needs that work really well for people,” said co-founder Evelyn Bartlett (right). But ultimately, the company’s focus is on two narrower areas that ignite its co-founders’ personal passions:…

  • Lincoln’s ISoft teams up with UNL professors to help make food safer

    Midwesterners are no strangers to food-related illness—and we’re not just talking about the kind that results from too much fried stuff on-a-stick. A recent cyclospora outbreak…

  • Lincoln startup helps online shoppers simplify Internet payments

    “Buy now, pay later.” It may well be the mantra of online shopping junkies the world over. But now with the help of a Nebraska startup, customers are able to do just that. FuturePay partners with online merchants to present consumers with a one-touch payment option, all without using a credit card. The company, which…

  • Digital scrapbooker turns hobby into Lincoln-based business

    We’ll venture a guess that unless you are already a digital scrapbooker, you probably aren’t aware of Gotta Pixel, a Lincoln, Neb.-based digital scrapbooking community. But with 25,000 users and a gallery of more than 250,000 layouts, what started as a hobby has now become a full-time endeavor. “My next-door neighbors don’t know,” said owner…

  • Lincoln Startup Week, Startup Weekend set to return in September

    Demo Day. Startup Weekend. Tech Crawl. Startup Olympics? Yup, Lincoln is getting its entrepreneurs off their keyboards and behind the steering wheels of go-karts for the Startup Olympics. The inaugural games will be one of more than a dozen events over a nine-day period in September that make up Lincoln Startup Week, a celebration of…