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Big Omaha Video Series: Melody McCloskey of StyleSeat
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re excited to release the next video in our Big Omaha 2010 video series, that of Melody McCloskey, co-founder of StyleSeat, a San Francisco-based company providing online tools for beauty, health, and wellness professionals to build and grow their businesses. McCloskey previously managed video analytics and started the digital…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV
(Photo by Malone & Company.) Today, we’re excited to release the fifth video in our Big Omaha 2010 video series, that of Gary Vaynerchuk, founder of Wine Library TV, New York Times bestselling author of “Crush It!,” and co-founder of VaynerMedia. From the very first year that we had the idea for Big Omaha, Gary…
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Big Omaha Behind the Scenes: Event Details – Part II
Today, I continue going through the presentation that Danny and I gave to a group of Startup Weekend organizers in Kansas City earlier this month. The presentation centered around the details of Big Omaha, and how they’re such a vital part of what makes the event special. In part one of this post, I covered…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re excited to release the video of Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo. Danae co-founded IndieGoGo to democratize fundraising as any project or idea on the site – creative, cause or entrepreneurial – can raise money, offer perks, and then keep 100% ownership of their own project. Ringelmann was recently honored…
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New on Silicon Prairie News: Big Omaha videos page
Today we’re excited to launch a new page on Silicon Prairie News which will serve as a landing page for all of our Big Omaha 2010 videos. To date, we’ve released four videos from the 2010 event, including Scott Harrison, Roger Fransecky, David Hauser, and Dennis Crowley. This page will be a great resource for…
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Blog Action Day: Rahul Gupta of Planet Water Foundation
(This is a guest post written by Rahul Gupta, an Omaha entrepreneur, erstwhile actor and recent addition to the team at the Planet Water Foundation.) A lot can happen in five months. I recently tweeted that Scott Harrison’s talk about charity: water at Big Omaha 2010 “literally changed the trajectory of my life.” That was…
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Big Omaha Behind the Scenes: Event Details – Part I
(Photo by Malone & Company) Earlier this month, Danny and I spent a few days in Kansas City at the Startup Organizers Summer. There, we had the privilege of presenting to the group about our experience producing Big Omaha. For this talk, we chose to highlight some of the little things about Big Omaha that…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the fourth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our first presenter from the event’s second day, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of foursquare. Crowley and the foursquare team are continuing to make major waves in the industry and the crowd was excited…
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Big Omaha Video Series: David Hauser of Grasshopper
Today, we’re releasing the third presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our second presenter, David Hauser, co-founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs. Hauser gave attendees a look into how he and his team have built Grasshopper into what it is today. Giving the backstory and implementation of their…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Roger Fransecky of The Apogee Group
After debuting our Big Omaha 2010 Video Series on Tuesday with Scott Harrison’s moving presentation, we’re excited to bring you our second video which features visionary and business leader Roger Fransecky of The Apogee Group. Fransecky’s insight, vision and leadership challenge served as a motivating presentation to open our first day of talks on Friday,…