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How to achieve hypergrowth with your startup
Want to achieve more growth in a month than most companies achieve in a year? You have to think differently. Technology startups are about speed. Founders can’t wait to share their vision, employees want to experience new challenges, and investors want to think about multiples not percentages — 10x not 10 percent. The need for…
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Drive Spotter secures $750,000 in seed round
Video analytics startup Drive Spotter has announced the completion of a $750,000 seed round, led by Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance. Drive Spotter was founded in 2015 by Chris Augeri and Andrew Prystai. Their platform allows commercial fleet managers to query dash cams and telemetry to prevent accidents. The company is positioning itself to ultimately take advantage…
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Omaha Startup Week releases full event calendar for March 21-26
The first ever Omaha Startup Week has announced its event calendar for the week of March 21-26. The week will include five tracks for youth, founders, corporate innovation, technology track and marketing and sales. The events will include everything from STEM preschool programming at Do Space to open mentor office hours for entrepreneurs. There will also…
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Entrepreneurship has levels of difficulty. Where should you start?
First time founders often take on more than they can handle. I love going fast. I graduated with my Bachelors Degree in Economics in 2.5 years. I started my first startup, CAN, because I didn’t want to wait—I wanted to get started. Silly me. You can’t fast forward maturity. Just like corporations, startups have career ladders.…
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Upklose wants to bring transparency to the art market
Upklose combines all of the qualities of a real-life curator into a high-quality app. With Upklose, users can browse original artwork, contact featured artists and virtually place art on their walls to see how it will look before purchasing. “We wanted users to have a way to search criteria (price, medium, size, genre, etc.) and to be…
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What I learned at my first CES
As a human race, we have a seemingly unquenchable thirst for the future and what it might bring. This fascination is what draws over 170,000 attendees, 3,600 companies, and 800 startups to annually convene in Las Vegas for the world’s largest technology exposition, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The stakes are high, with companies spending…
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David Arnold on the future of Straight Shot
Straight Shot’s Managing Director shares his perspective on the future of Omaha’s first startup accelerator. David Arnold has something to be proud of at Straight Shot. To date, the Straight Shot accelerator has invested in 20 companies with $400,000 in seed investment. Of those companies that have gone on to fundraise, they have collectively raised $4.5 million. Clearly the program…
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Crumb hopes to revolutionize the healthcare industry with its data-sharing platform
Crumb wants to solve a really tough problem: untangling the mess of patient data in order to save lives. “Hospital errors are the second leading cause of death in the U.S.” said Luis Lopez, Co-founder of Crumb, based out of The Exchange in Omaha. “It’s not because we have bad doctors or nurses. It’s because…