Bo Fishback

  • Silicon Prairie News – Kansas City Edition launches today!

    (Photo by Tim Samoff via Flickr.) Today is a monumental day for Silicon Prairie News. Two years and seven months ago, we launched Silicon Prairie News in Omaha with the focus of telling the stories of entrepreneurs and creatives we knew existed in the community but hadn’t had a chance to have their great work…

  • Fast Company: ‘Why You Should Start a Company in… Kansas City’

    Yesterday, Fast Company magazine continued its online series highlighting entrepreneurial hubs around the country. Once again, they’ve landed in the Silicon Prairie. This time, in the “world’s barbecue capital,” Kansas City. The article, “Why You Should Start a Company in… Kansas City,” is an interview with Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship…

  • Startup Organizers Summit recap and takeaways

    (Marc Nager speaks at the Startup Organizers Summit. Photo by Steven Chau via Flickr.) Scott Heiferman, Meetup.com founder, said it best in a tweet following his closing keynote presentation at the Startup Organizers Summit. “Imagine! Ppl start @startupweekend chapters in cities globally &they come together in KansasCity. #sosummit was impressive.Watch this space!” Heiferman was spot…

  • A special thanks to the Kauffman Foundation

    We would like to share our gratitude to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for their support of this year’s Big Omaha event. We’ve had the opportunity to work with Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship, and others at the foundation for some time.

  • Recap of 2010 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship

    This year marked the fourth annual Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship held in Lincoln, Nebraska. Organized by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the event brings together over 400 educators, business leaders, government officials, entrepreneurs and small business owners to talk about different aspects of entrepreneurship and take a look at how Nebraska measures up in some of…

  • 2009 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship

    February 27th, 2009 Cornhusker Marriott – Lincoln, Nebraska If you’re at all interested in the current state of entrepreneurship in Nebraska, I recommend attending the 2009 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship. The schedule is included below, and features Bo Fishback of the Kaufmann Foundation who has been previously featured on SPN. Last year’s summit featured the…

  • Bo Fishback of the Kauffman Foundation at Highlight Midwest

    Here’s a clip that SPN did with Bo Fishback, VP of Entrepreneurship for the Kauffman Foundation.  Bo was the moderator during Highlight Midwest’s panel discussion and asked some very poignant and timely questions of the panel. Fishback’s role at the Foundation include developing and advancing transformative programs that strengthen entrepreneurial engagement in the economy and…