Brian Wong

  • GolfStatus, now with Kiip integration, available in App Store

    Ryan Cooper, developer of GolfStatus, an app that rewards golfers for checking in at different courses, said he’s ready to show off his creation, which now includes features inspired by a speaker at Big Omaha. We interviewed Cooper last year about the app when it was still in private beta. It soft launched in May…

  • Brian Wong’s 10 steps to controlling your own luck (Video)

    Brian Wong, the founder of mobile rewards network kiip, pulled from his personal and professional experience as an entrepreneur to convince the Big Omaha 2012 audience that people can create their own luck. “I’m here to say that you can control it,” Wong said Friday. “And I’m going give you 10 steps to do that…

  • Brian Wong: ‘Kiip Getting Lucky’

    Three years ago this Mother’s Day weekend, Brian Wong paid a sad surprise visit to his mom in Vancouver; he’d just been laid off from his business development gig at Digg. This year, the newly-21-year-old is 18 months into founding Kiip, which has 35 employees in New York and San Francisco and has given 40…

  • Read up on the Big Omaha 2012 Friday speakers

    Already pick out your clothes in anticipation of Big Omaha? Now, it’s time for you to do your homework on the speaker lineup. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard part and put together a series of links on the latest news and videos of each of the speakers in hopes of building your enthusiasm…

  • Get to know the Big Omaha 2012 Thursday speakers

    Already pick out your clothes in anticipation of Big Omaha? Now, it’s time for you to do your homework on the speaker lineup. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard part and put together a series of links on the latest news and videos of each of the speakers in hopes of building your enthusiasm…