Alexis Ohanian

  • Snapshots of reddit co-founder’s tour stops through the Silicon Prairie

    Last week reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian made his way through the Silicon Prairie—stopping first in Lincoln, then heading south to Kansas City to speak at Compute Midwest. But this is by no means the first time Ohanian has visited the Prairie. Last fall the Internet 2012 Bus Tour made four stops across the …

  • Reddit co-founder schedules stop in Lincoln next week during book tour

    Next Wednesday, Oct. 23, reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian will be making a stop in Lincoln as part of a five-month tour to promote his book, Without Their Permission. Wednesday evening Ohanian will make an appearance at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln …

  • Local entrepreneurs give inaugural Big Kansas City a lift

    Midwestern hospitality takes many forms, like a home-cooked meal or a “What can I get you?” Our inaugural Big Kansas City event last month was welcomed into the community by a group of entrepreneurs who wanted to get the local Big Series event off to a rousing start. Weeks before the event, Claude Aldridge (right),…

  • Reddit co-founder wants you to start working on your idea

    Projected behind reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on the Big Kansas City stage last week was his personal motto in all caps, paired meme-style with a snarling wolf: “Have an idea. Start doing it.” Before his user-generated website built steam, he had to let another idea crash and burn. At our Big Kansas City event, he…

  • “Silicon Prairie” film available today; Dwolla to host screening at 6 p.m.

    “Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy,” a short documentary that stresses the importance of the Open Internet by telling the stories of startups in the middle of America, is now available on the film’s website. “Pay what you want, from $0 up,” the site states, encouraging donations to the film that began as crowd-funded project.…

  • CNN@SXSW captures Silicon Prairie, Kansas Sen. Moran in Austin (Video)

    CNN last Saturday premiered its roundup of more than a week’s worth of coverage of this year’s South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. “The annual SXSW festival is where the tools developed in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are turned into the culture of today,” said CNN producer Josh Rubin, the host of the 30-minute…

  • Big Season Pass now on sale, first Big Kansas City speakers revealed

    Registration for the Big Season Pass, a golden ticket to attend all three of The Big Series events, is now available. This pass provides an exclusive 20 percent discount and guarantees a seat to Big Kansas City, Big Omaha and Big Des Moines. The Big Season Pass is on sale for a general admission price…

  • “Silicon Prairie” documentary to premier at CES (Video)

    A short documentary shot in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas just three months ago debuts today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. “Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy,” a 22-minute film that follows reddit’s Internet 2012 Bus Tour last October, will show at 9:30 a.m. local time at the Las Vegas Convention…

  • Watch the Internet 2012 Bus Tour entrepreneurship panel in KC (Video)

    reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian has good news about his campaign on behalf of the internet. “It’s going to be a landslide,” Ohanian said. ‘I think things are going really well for the internet right now.” He delivered the good news during a gathering Oct. 8 at Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Mo. Ohanian…

  • Raikes School, Hudl welcome Bus Tour to talk power of Open Internet

    Heads turned and necks craned Friday afternoon as the blue and red bus and souped-up hot rod rumbled through the streets of Lincoln and onto the campus of the University of Nebraska. In a purely superficial sense, the Internet 2012 Bus Tour had achieved one of its primary objectives — getting people to take notice…