Blake Mycoskie

  • YP Summit keynote Blake Mycoskie discusses sustainability, bootstrapping

    A big congratulations to the Greater Omaha Young Professionals for yet another outstanding Young Professionals Summit. Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes was the luncheon keynote speaker, and after his presentation he sat down with me to highlight some of his talk’s key points as well as more of the story around when he launched TOMS…

  • Interviews from YP Summit about #YourSeat2010 and I Live in Omaha

    At last Thursday’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit I tracked down two of the individuals behind the two most common phrases of the event: the Twitter hashtag #YourSeat2010 and the blue signs and stickers touting I live in Omaha. First up, Mark Pohl, the chair of this year’s Summit and an employee of the Omaha…

  • Who wants to go to the Omaha YP Summit? We have tickets!

    Silicon Prairie News has two all day passes ($125 value) to give away. To win one…

  • TOMS Shoes founder Blake Mycoskie discusses social entrepreneurship

    I had the opportunity to interview an individual that I’ve been inspired by for some time, Blake Mycoskie of TOMS Shoes. Blake has an amazing story of how he’s built the TOMS Shoes name into an internationally recognized social entrepreneurship success story. Blake will be the lunch keynote speaker at this year’s Greater Omaha Young…

  • Greater Omaha YP’s Style Your Sole event Thursday, February 18

    The Greater Omaha Young Professionals Council is hosting a Style Your Sole Party in prepartion for the Young Professionals Summit which takes place March 4! The event takes place this Thursday from 5:30 – 7:30 p.m. at Barley’s TipTop (1510 Cuming Street) in Omaha. It should be fun night of celebrity bartending by folks like…

  • Greater Omaha YP’s Your Omaha 2020 event this Tuesday!

    I caught up with Craig Moody while he was bicycling through downtown Omaha…well, we actually set an appointment to talk about an upcoming event the Greater Omaha Young Professionals is conducting this Tuesday evening! Your Omaha 2020 will take place Tuesday the 10th from 6:30 – 9:00 p.m., at the Holiday Inn Omaha Convention Center…