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  • Startup Spaces: Omaha Code School finds home in Little Bohemia

    Startup Spaces: Omaha Code School finds home in Little Bohemia

    Omaha Code School grew up somewhat an orphan. Cousins Sumeet Jain and Rahul Gupta had the idea and put it together so quickly that one of Omaha’s first code schools didn’t even have time to find a home…

  • Congressman Yoder visits KCSV Tuesday for Startup Day roundtable

    This Tuesday, Kansas City startups will have a chance to lend their voice to the national entrepreneurial conversation in a roundtable with Kansas Congressman Kevin Yoder as part of Startup Day Across America…

  • Prairie Portrait: Scott Siegert of BuilderTREND

    Prairie Portrait: Scott Siegert of BuilderTREND

    I do what I do because… I love helping people. Most of our customers run small-to-medium size business and they rely on us to help them operate more efficiently. I find that to be extremely rewarding.

  • David Arnold: Forget silver bullets, find the tools that work for you

    David Arnold: Forget silver bullets, find the tools that work for you

    (Guest post by David Arnold) Besides entertainment, the majority of apps – mobile or desktop – at their core are created to make us more efficient and productive. Attaining this goal, however, is largely dependent on having tools that have direct applicability to one’s needs. Fortunately, we live in a world where there’s an app…

  • Four years of scaling MindMixer: What’s worked, and what hasn’t

    Four years of scaling MindMixer: What’s worked, and what hasn’t

    (Guest post by Nick Bowden, MindMixer co-founder and CEO) It feels strange to be considered by some in the “prairie” as the old guard of startups, but we’ll take it. I suppose it means we have done at least one thing right: stay in business. As we approached the birthday and my anniversary, I did…

  • Pack, the social media site for dog lovers, releases iOS app

    Pack’s new iOS app is perfectly described in the App Store title: “Pack: Cute dog photos in your pocket.” The social media site for dog lovers has had a mini app before (read more about Pack Snack, the app that sends push notifications of dog pics) but the new app, released Monday, allows you to…

  • Small Business Innovation Research grants seminar at UNL July 31

    A USDA official will be in Lincoln July 31 for a seminar on Small Business Innovation Research federal grants. The event is from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln’s East Campus Union. USDA program leader Mary Ann Rozum will talk about projects the USDA wants to support and the rules and…

  • IEDA awards Demonstration Fund capital to Bawte, Pear Deck

    Last week the Iowa Economic Development Authority (IEDA) awarded five startups grants or loans from the Demonstration Fund, including two Iowa tech startups.

  • Ben Milne shares hard lessons learned building Dwolla in 2013

    (Guest post by Ben Milne) 2013 was one of the hardest years of my life. It wasn’t the hardest but it was challenging. The hardest, was one year as a kid when my dad got Parkinson’s, my mom got sick, my mom’s best friend died and the grandparent who helped raise me withered away like…

  • Former KC startup myEDmatch wins SXSW V2V edtech pitch competition

    Yesterday myEDmatch was named the education technology winner of the V2Venture pitch competition at SXSW V2V in Las Vegas. Out of more than 200 applicants, myEDmatch—a job-matching site for educators that connects schools and teachers based on missions—pitched against five other finalists innovating in the education space.