Cornstalks Demo Night

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: The MightyMoRiver Project by Chris Augeri (Video)

    Although this last post in our series covering Cornstalks Demo Night isn’t highlighting a startup’s product built from the ground up, the event’s organizer, Tom Chapman of the Greater Omaha Chamber, included it in the lineup for its relation to current events. In response to the major flooding occurring throughout the Midwest, Omahan Chris Augeri…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: The MeNetwork by Craig Page (Video)

    While the mainstream daily deal and coupon sites have users sign up once to receive a constant stream of emails with deals, The MeNetwork, which operates via SMS, doesn’t believe that strategy translates to its platform. “We have taken the opposite approach to that,” Craig Page, the Omaha startup’s COO, said. “We believe that people…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Green Bein’ Productions by Nick Helton, Collin Caneva and Adam Templeton (Video)

    Green Bein’ Productions founder Collin Caneva began his presentation at Cornstalks Demo Night by hinting at the latest developments of his Lincoln-based startup. “Our company, locally, is usually known as Kid Command, but we’re more than that,” Caneva said. “We’re an online, multimedia development company. We develop everything …

  • Prairie Moves: Torsion Mobile, eDossea, Corey Spitzer and more

    Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. Also, a good portion of the items below are stories we will either cover in the coming days or ones we’ll miss covering because we can’t get to all of them. If you’d like to help us increase…

  • Watch Cornstalks Demo Night live (hashtag: #prairiedemo)

    We’re live at Creighton University’s Harper Center for Cornstalks Demo Night, where demos will get under way a little after 7 p.m. Six companies are set to present, and we’ll stream five of those presentations here. Follow along with our live stream, join in the chat above or share your thoughts on Twitter using the…

  • These six startups will present at tonight’s Cornstalks Demo Night

    At 6 p.m. tonight, the second Cornstalks Demo Night will kick off with a networking reception, followed by six product demos at 7 and then a post-networking reception at 9 to close out the evening. While Cornstalks, a monthly gather hosted by the Omaha Chamber for individuals interested in high-growth entrepreneurship, regularly meets at the…

  • Events: Co-Founders Meetup, TechBrew, Demo Night and more

    With a big week ahead of us, here’s a preview of what to expect on the Prairie. First, if you’re in Kansas City, check out the free events of the Smart Communications Technology Summit. This two-day event starts Tuesday with two networking activities before all-day speaker and breakout sessions on Wednesday. In Omaha on Wednesday,…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night returning August 4

    After a successful Demo Night in March, Cornstalks, a monthly gathering hosted by the Omaha Chamber for individuals interested in high-growth entrepreneurship, will be bringing back the event on August 4. The time and venue are set (details below) but the the lineup of presenting companies is still coming together. So far, participating in …

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Wrapping it all up (Video)

    As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we’ve…

  • Cornstalks Demo Night: Hollrback demo by Gabe Kangas (Video)

    Hollrback founder Gabe Kangas presented his company’s context-specific, event-based contact-management system. That description, Kangas said, is “a fancy way of saying that when you meet people, we’re going to try to take care of making that information useful to you.” Technical difficulties prevented us from recording Kangas’ presentation on Demo Night, but he was kind…