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Service providers with startups in mind set up shop in Mastercraft
An alliance of four professional service providers – an intellectual property law firm, a corporate law firm, an accounting firm and a bank – have set up shop in The Mastercraft building in north downtown Omaha to cater to startups. “The idea is to be able to engage entrepreneurs, startups and the creative community so…
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David Milligan of Advent IP to present Thursday night at Cornstalks
David Milligan, founding partner of Advent IP and co-founder of Leap Ventures, will present at this month’s meeting of Cornstalks, which takes place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at CAMP Coworking in the the Mastercraft Building (1111 N. 13th St.). More on Milligan, courtesy of the Advent IP website: David is a founding partner of Advent…
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Prairie Moves: Sojern, Annie Sorensen, Wade Arnold and more
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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Midlands Business Journal unveils its 10th annual ’40 Under 40′
The Midlands Business Journal has announced its 10th annual “40 Under 40” class, a group of 40 of the greater Omaha area’s top entrepreneurs, executives and professionals under the age of 40. The MBJ also named Chris Hughes of Artifact Bag Co. its Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Hughes and this year’s 40 Under 40…
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Hollrback in action – the fastest QR code reader we’ve experienced
Yesterday, when Jimmy Winter of RockDex stopped by our office to say hello, we cut a short video of us demonstrating the use of Hollrback, a contact management iPhone and web app that launched out of Omaha yesterday. Also, Hollrback’s creator, Gabe Kangas, published a thorough post yesterday on his personal blog, Gabe’s Digital Life…
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David Milligan & Kevin West give the rundown on patents
At last month’s Midlands Venture Forum gathering, David Milligan and Kevin West, both patent attorneys at Advent IP, gave a 25-minute presentation on patents. In his opening remarks, Milligan introduced their talk with a one-sentence summary. “We’re basically going to go through what we would consider kind of an assessment of…
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Prairie Moves: Advent IP adds two, Smelly Puppy releases app & more
(Photo by Let Ideas Compete via Flickr) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie…
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WordPress Happy Hour, foursquare Meetup, Beer & Blog and MVF
Here are four events hitting Des Moines and Omaha this week, starting with the…
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MVF: High growth business initiatives discussed at June’s networking dinner
I apologize for my tardiness on posting this video. Through our partnership with the Midlands Venture Forum, we’ve agreed to post video of all of their events. Although this took place over a month ago, I still strongly encourage you to check it out as it covers the current efforts of four people and organizations…