Don’t Panic Labs

  • Catching Up with Tech Innovator Doug Durham of Don’t Panic Labs and Nebraska Global

    Catching Up with Tech Innovator Doug Durham of Don’t Panic Labs and Nebraska Global

    Every year, the AIM Tech Celebration awards ceremony recognizes individuals, organizations, teams, students and educators furthering the cause of technology in the community.  Doug Durham is one of those people.  In 2016, Durham won a Tech Celebration award in the Tech Innovator category for his work as CEO of software development company Don’t Panic Labs…

  • Don’t Panic Labs and AIM Interface School announce software education partnership

    Don’t Panic Labs and AIM Interface School announce software education partnership

    Lincoln-based software design and development company Don’t Panic Labs and Omaha-based AIM Interface School have announced a partnership that will provide continuing education for professional software developers in the Omaha area. “AIM Interface School is eager to partner with Don’t Panic Labs to offer advanced software engineering training for people in the Greater Omaha area,”…

  • Lincoln-based Fourstarzz Media goes international with influencer marketing

    Lincoln-based Fourstarzz Media goes international with influencer marketing

    Dennis Doerfl and Daniel Troesch met while working for Groupon in Switzerland, traveling all over the world managing the company’s international projects. Through that business relationship, the two found themselves in Lincoln, Nebraska launching their own influencer marketing company, Fourstarzz Media. Doerfl, a former University of Nebraska at Lincoln student, felt that the Lincoln startup…

  • QA with Doug Durham on thinking beyond Agile practices

    QA with Doug Durham on thinking beyond Agile practices

    Doug Durham is co-founder and CTO of Nebraska Global and Don’t Panic Labs in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 2016 he was awarded “Tech Innovator of the Year” at AIM’s Tech Celebration. On March 28th Durham will be presenting on “Enabling innovation through integrating agile and software development best practices” at Infotec in Omaha. SPN caught up with…

  • Don’t Panic Labs pioneers “dev-for-equity” model to help startups

    Don’t Panic Labs pioneers “dev-for-equity” model to help startups

    Lincoln based Don’t Panic Labs doesn’t believe that building software should be a matter of uncertainty. “There’s a lot of conventional wisdom right now that says if you’re going to build software and you have all these uncertainties and changes coming for it, basically you can’t architect for it,” said Brian Zimmer, Business Director at…

  • Money goes further to teach kids to code during Give to Lincoln Day

    The Lincoln Community Learning Centers and volunteers from Don’t Panic Labs hope to raise $2,500 to be able to teach more third to fifth grade students how to code…

  • Silicon Prairie Spooky: Companies across the region celebrate Halloween

    Two years ago we shared some of the Silicon Prairie’s spookiest Halloween costumes. Now we’re back for a second round of Halloween hijinx and startup shenanigans. Check out some of the best parties, pumpkins and punny costumes the Silicon Prairie had to offer this year …

  • With “expanded mission” Don’t Panic Labs lends technical help outside

    Don’t Panic Labs fielded and consistently passed on offers for consulting work for some time following its launch in late 2010. But eventually Don’t Panic Labs, the technical arm of Lincoln-based software investment firm Nebraska Global …

  • Digital developer, business analyst, marketing intern and more

    We’re excited to bring you our 102nd Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions using our Job …

  • April Fools: Google Fiber Bar, Iowa Foxconn plant and a new ‘Lab’

    Three Silicon Prairie cities are the subjects of a couple April Fools’ Day jokes today. First, Kansas City, Kan. and Kansas City, Kan., the cities chosen by Google in 2011 to be the first to receive its coveted gigabit internet speed later this year, were announced as the launch pad of the internet giant’s first…