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The new summer job: Nebraska high schoolers score tech internships
It’s a sunny afternoon in Omaha—a great day for teens on summer break to be outside. But high schoolers Okina Tran of Millard South High School and Katie Nguyen of Burke High School are working inside the darkened Aksarben offices of game developer, SkyVu Entertainment. And they’re excited about it…
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SkyVu launches next flagship game: Battle Bears Ultimate
It’s 5:05 p.m. on a Monday at SkyVu’s office in Aksarben, but Ben Vu’s day is not over. He’s in his office, a video camera over his shoulder and an iPad in hand…
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Ben Vu says his family’s journey from Vietnam inspired Battle Bears game
Media coverage of Omaha gaming startup SkyVu Entertainment often notes the irregularity of an animation studio based in Nebraska, but the story of how the company’s creator, Ben Vu, laid roots here has rarely been told. Vu’s parents and older brother immigrated to the state in 1975, fleeing South …
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Wall Street Journal blog features four Nebraska “guest mentors”
The Wall Street Journal today is presenting four voices from Nerbaska’s startup community in a series that answers the question: “Can startups be successful anywhere in the U.S.?” Startup founders Ben Vu, Julie Malhoch and Stephanie Jarrett chime in along with entrepreneur-in-residence Brian Ardinger. “Make no doubt about it; some of the most talented and…
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Applications for 2013 Pipeline fellowship class due Oct. 29 (Video)
Just more than 10 days remain for Midwest entrepreneurs to apply for Pipeline’s 2013 class. Pipeline, the Kansas City, Kan.-based regional fellowship for high-growth entrepreneurs, will accept applications for next year’s class until 11:59 p.m. on Oct. 29. Entrepreneurs from from Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska are eligible for Pipeline, which accepts …
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Lightbank leads way as SkyVu raises new seed funding
With the growing success of its free-to-play model, Omaha mobile games company SkyVu Entertainment reached profitability early this year and wasn’t actively seeking institutional investment. But that began to change in May, over the course of a couple of tweets. “We were in a comfy position to choose whether or not we needed to pursue…
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Proxibid, Ben Vu among AIM Institute award recipients
Proxibid and Ben Vu, the CEO and co-founder of SkyVu Entertainment, highlighted a list of companies and individuals recognized Tuesday night during The AIM Institute’s 2012 Technology Celebration Awards. Handed out by the Omaha-based AIM Institute, the awards honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to the region’s information technology scene.…
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Listen to an interview with Ben Vu, the brains behind Battle Bears
For your listening pleasure, here’s SkyVu Entertainment founder Ben Vu’s radio spot from Saturday on the Mulberry Lane Radio Show on 1290 KKAR in Omaha. Vu (left), who heads up SkyVu, the Omaha-based mobile games studio that brought the world Battle Bears, covered lots of ground in the course of an interview that ran just…