Startups

  • Rentping Media CEO saved his company–because the Bible

    Rentping Media CEO saved his company–because the Bible

    With a floundering website and staff layoffs,  David Watson turned to his faith–and it changed his whole approach to business. Rentping Media CEO David Watson and his wife moved into their first apartment in Omaha sight unseen. “We both had full-time jobs and didn’t have time to look around at places to live,” Watson said. “I thought…

  • Dusty Davidson on Flywheel: “Culture is about more than trips to Vegas”

    Dusty Davidson on Flywheel: “Culture is about more than trips to Vegas”

    Dusty Davidson co-founded Flywheel in 2012 with Tony Noecker and Rick Knudtson to provide WordPress hosting and support for web designers. Since then Flywheel has grown to a team of 28 in downtown Omaha. Flywheel was the winner of two Golden Analogs this year for Best Culture and Best Startup of the Year. SPN caught up with Davidson over…

  • Udder Panic sucks you into playing for charity

    Udder Panic sucks you into playing for charity

    Beam up cows in your UFO and make a kid’s wish come true. Udder Panic is the latest free-to-play mobile game from Omaha-based JB Gaming, in which you play an alien in a UFO, attempting to suck up cows while avoiding bombs and secret agents (Men In Black?). The game is very easy to play and hard…

  • 6 questions with Borrow For Your Bump co-founder Krystal Stubbendeck

    6 questions with Borrow For Your Bump co-founder Krystal Stubbendeck

    Borrow For Your Bump (BFYB) is an e-retail startup based in Omaha that rents out maternity clothing to expecting mothers. SPN caught up with Co-founder Krystal Stubbendeck over the phone. SPN: When we last spoke, you were planning on opening a store, starting Bump Love Club and possibly adding trimester boxes to your site. Can you update our readers…

  • EarMashin connects you to friends, concerts and tickets in real time

    EarMashin connects you to friends, concerts and tickets in real time

    EarMashin moved from Los Angeles to Iowa City to reinvent their new music discovery platform. “[Moving] wasn’t actually that big of a challenge for us,” says Ash Naguib, one of Earmashin’s founders. “We met a lot of great people here, and we actually found out that there’s a pretty big music community [in Iowa], so it’s been helpful.”…

  • Proxibid CTO: “The technology talent pool is tight”

    Proxibid CTO: “The technology talent pool is tight”

    Online marketplace Proxibid has experienced another year of high growth, beginning with a partnership with eBay announced in February. Revenue increased by 11% in Q2, driven by the heavy machinery and collectible car markets. In August Proxibid also received significant growth capital investment from Primus Capital, and the company is currently in hiring mode to keep up with its reach.  Greg…

  • Home Scene Pro wants to create more job opportunities for students and grads

    Home Scene Pro wants to create more job opportunities for students and grads

    After watching his post-graduate friends struggle to find jobs, Jurell became terrified to enter his senior of college in New York. “Everyone left ready to attack the job market, but a few years later those same friends didn’t have jobs, let alone jobs in their field. With graduation right around the corner, it was the…

  • InjuReplay announces partnership with Hudl

    InjuReplay announces partnership with Hudl

    Lincoln-based sports health startup InjuReplay has announced a new partnership with Hudl. Hudl will be offering InjuReplay videos through its recently launched Performance Center, which provides video content to millions of coaches athletes across the globe. “Not only does InjuReplay do a great job of turning technical sports injury details into bite-sized, highly informative video pieces, they…

  • MachineryLink Sharing brings the sharing economy to the farm

    MachineryLink Sharing brings the sharing economy to the farm

    The sharing economy is disrupting many industries. Agriculture is no exception. Today Kansas City-based FarmLink officially launched MachineryLink Sharing, the agriculture industry’s first Internet-based equipment sharing program. The platform has been in a beta-test, soft launch of sorts as of the last few months, according to Jeff Dema, president of grower services at FarmLink, receiving critical feedback…

  • Statim’s Jennifer Amis on the future of telehealth and her Pipeline experience

    Statim’s Jennifer Amis on the future of telehealth and her Pipeline experience

    Jennifer Amis is the founder of Statim, an Omaha-based telehealth service provider that provides remote patient monitoring over the Internet, with a particular focus on serving rural communities in western Nebraska. Amis is currently a 2015 Pipeline fellow. SPN caught up with Amis over the phone. SPN: Telehealth is really hot right now, and there’s a lot of…