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Jeff Raikes speaks about entrepreneurship in Nebraska
Nebraska Entrepreneur recently caught up with Jeff Raikes and asked him a few questions about entrepreneurship in Nebraska. Raikes is a Nebraska native who currently serves as the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To see his full bio, visit gatesfoundation.org/leadership. Here’s the full transcript…
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disRUPT: Omaha doctor invents ergonomic medical instruments
If you underwent triple bypass heart surgery, you wouldn’t want your doctor’s hands to cramp, or lose his grip of an instrument. During an average surgery lasting two to four hours, surgeons not only suffer the consequences of standing in one place for an extended time, but also the occasional slippery scalpel handle. Guru Instruments…
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CEO Bruce Hoberman & co-founder Joe Petsick tell the Proxibid story
(Left: Proxibid CEO Bruce Hoberman and co-founder and CFO Joe Petsick.) Last November, while hundreds of bidders gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan for the auction of Bernard Madoff, the man behind a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, thousands of bidders flocked to Proxibid.com, a website allowing bidders unable…
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European natives found interactive media startup Fresk Interactive
One of the latest interactive media startups to launch on the Silicon Prairie was founded by a pair of unlikely Iowans: Stefan and Thomas Hansen. The pair are sons of Danish citizens, were born and raised in Germany and now choose to live in Des Moines. While school initially attracted each of them to Iowa…
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Adrian Blake discusses the Omaha startup community
A few weeks ago, we interviewed Adrian Blake, CEO of TownCommons.com. Today, we have some additional footage of Adrian giving us his thoughts on the Omaha startup scene. As was mentioned in the previous piece, Adrian comes to Omaha after having worked all over the world, and he brings a unique perspective to this dialogue…
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Geosync Global seeks out emerging technologies for local businesses
Earlier this summer, Shayne Huston and Nabeel Meghji sat down with me to discuss their Des Moines-based startup Geosync Global. Huston, the company’s CEO, describes Geosync as an “innovation group-for-hire.” They fill the void of identifying, researching, and vetting emerging technologies that can be beneficial to companies who may not have…
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Jonathan Sharp on Omaha’s tech scene & appendTo’s distributed team
Jonathan Sharp, co-founder and president of appendTo, has a busy day ahead of him tomorrow. At 9 a.m. he’ll be delivering a keynote speech at Omaha’s Heartland Developer’s Conference. During the day he’ll log onto Skype to communicate with the rest of the appendTo team, which is located across the U.S. Then, sometime in the…
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Adrian Blake of TownCommons.com, a ‘Google News for local events’
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with Adrian Blake, CEO of Omaha-based TownCommons.com. Adrian comes from an interesting background of management consulting with a history of working with large organizations, and he brings a unique and fresh perspective to the his startup. Simply put, Town Commons is a website that aggregates…
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Carla White: NASA designer by day, iPhone developer by night
I witnessed the power of Big Omaha this past May when I traveled all the way down to Omaha from Sioux Falls and then met an incredible designer, Carla White, who lives in my own backyard. Not literally, but in the community of Sioux Falls which doesn’t have a big yard. Carla and I kept…