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Big Omaha alumni Andrzejewski, Hauser make Inc. list of 30 Under 30
Chalk it up to the Big Omaha bump. OK, no, don’t chalk it up to that at all. That Foodspotting’s Alexa Andrzejewski and Grasshopper’s David Hauser made this year’s Inc. list of 30 Under 30 has everything to do with Andrezejewski and Hauser’s hard work and execution on big ideas, not their work on stage…
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Sunday Video: The Foodspotting Pitch at Women 2.0 Startup Weekend
For this week’s Sunday video, we’ve chosen the final pitch from Foodspotting at the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend held nearly eighteen months ago in San Francisco. The pitch is done in Alexa Andrzejewski who spoke on the entrepreneur panel at last year’s Big Omaha. Foodspotting is arguable one of the most successful companies to come…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Entrepreneur Panel
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the eleventh presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010. This video features the “Entrepreneur Panel” in which David Hauser of Grasshopper Group led the discussion of three entrepreneurs: Matt Galligan, co-founder of SimpleGeo, Alexa Andrzejewski, co-founder & CEO of Foodspotting and Justin Shaffer, founder of…
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Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event
Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy’s producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she’s given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie…
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Big Omaha: Saturday live blog
8:03 a.m. Welcome to Day 2 of Big Omaha. After an educational, enjoyable, and inspirational day of speakers, parties, and connecting yesterday, we’re getting set to jump into another shared experience with the likes of Dennis Crowley (foursquare), Melody McCloskey (StyleSeat) and Tony Hsieh (Zappos). I’m the duly appointed live blogger for today so if…
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Happy Foursquare Day from Big Omaha!
It’s Foursquare Day, and to celebrate we’ve announced a few more speakers to the Big Omaha roster! Anyone up for a game of Foursquare while wearing a pair of shoes from Zappos while dining on a delicious meal found on Foodspotting while reviewing data from SimpleGeo? Look for more details early next week, but take…