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Big Omaha adds U.S. CTO Chopra, Startup America Partnership’s Broksas
We’re excited to announce two amazing speakers to the slate for Big Omaha: United States Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Startup America Partnership’s Erich Broksas. Chopra, who serves as an assistant to President Barack Obama and associate director for technology within the Office of Science and Technology Policy, will speak on the administration’s innovation…
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Kauffman Foundation announces Big Omaha ticket contest winner
Almost two weeks ago, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation gave vying conference-goers an opportunity to enter the Big Omaha “Express Your Pledge” competition for a chance to win a ticket …
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Big Omaha 2011 schedule overview and party details
We’re in the midst of finalizing speaker times and specific party details, but with the event less than two weeks away we wanted to supply attendees with a schedule of activities (speaker times coming soon) and non-attendees with the details of the Big Omaha party circuit. | Big Omaha 2011 Schedule: Wednesday, May 11: 8:00…
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A visit with Big Omaha 2011 speaker Dan Martell of Flowtown
We’re just two weeks away from Big Omaha 2011, and we want to share a conversation we recently had with Dan Martell, co-founder of Flowtown, a company focused on providing web-based tools that allow small businesses to measure their online marketing efforts. In November, Silicon Prairie News contributor John T. Meyer wrote a Tools for…
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‘Express Your Pledge’ and be entered for a chance at a Big Omaha ticket
We’re thrilled to share with you a phenomenal opportunity from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our premier sponsor of Big Omaha 2011. With tickets for Big Omaha selling out just one week after they went on sale, the Kauffman Foundation has offered to give one lucky entrepreneur the opportunity to attend our event. Here are…
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Big Omaha 2011: MC and more speakers added, tickets sold out!
Today, we’re thrilled to announce this year’s MC and two incredible speaker additions to the 2011 lineup: MC David Hauser of Grasshopper Group and speakers Marc Eckō of Marc Eckō Enterprises (left) and Bo Fishback of Zaarly (left). The response for Big Omaha this year has been overwhelming and incredibly humbling. After releasing Early Bird…
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Big Omaha 2011: Tickets now on sale!
The time has come to make a very, very special announcement. Tickets for Big Omaha 2011 are now…live! We’re extremely excited to bring you another amazing Big Omaha with many special additions for 2011. This year we’ve added a half-day of speakers, bringing the total to two days of some of the nation’s best and…
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Who’s ready for Big Omaha 2011?
(Photo by Malone & Company.) We’re just days away from releasing information regarding Big Omaha 2011: tickets, speakers, party details and all of the fun for this year’s event. From the added half-day of speakers, second lunch, third evening event – super secret entertainment to be announced soon – and seeing old friends as well…
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‘Big Omaha: In their own words…’ (Video)
A few weeks ago we debuted the phenomenal video (above) that the team at Malone & Co. put together to help us share the experience of our Big Omaha event. Since then, the video has been viewed nearly 1,000 times and shared by many on Twitter and Facebook. For those who haven’t had the opportunity…
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Big Omaha 2011 site launches!
It’s with amazing excitement that I’m happy to announce the 2011 Big Omaha branding has been released to the public to give us just a bit of what we’re in store for this year! Don’t fret, when you visit the site you won’t see speakers listed…yet. And no, it won’t be just Dusty and I…