Dusty Davidson

  • Startup Omaha Week | Day 5 Recap

    Startup Omaha Week | Day 5 Recap

    The final day of Startup Omaha Week kicked off with Entrepreneurs & Favors. Next up was a live edition of SPN Office Hours featuring exit-ed Nebraska founders. The day ended with the E-Commerce & Friends Meetup.

  • Startup Omaha Week | Sept. 25-29

    Startup Omaha Week | Sept. 25-29

    See what’s in store for Startup Omaha Week 2023 and follow along throughout the week for live updates and behind the scenes access.

  • WordPress hosting startup Flywheel raises $1.2M from Linseed, others

    WordPress hosting startup Flywheel raises $1.2M from Linseed, others

    OMAHA—Flywheel, the WordPress hosting and management service for designers, freelancers and creative agencies, has landed a $1.2 million seed round.

  • Flywheel grows to 13 employees, plans move to Downtown office

    Flywheel grows to 13 employees, plans move to Downtown office

    Flywheel, Omaha’s WordPress hosting startup, has hired 10 more employees and is moving to a new office Downtown to accommodate its growth…

  • Dusty Davidson: Speaker diversity comes through conscious effort

    (Guest post by Dusty Davidson) I try not to get caught up in internet flame wars, regardless of which side of the topic I happen to land on. However, I do find the whole “Why are there no female speakers at Nebraska Code Camp” to be an interesting lesson in a bunch of things. The…

  • Flywheel leaves private beta, rolls out hosting services to the public

    Flywheel’s WordPress web hosting services are ready to fully get rolling. Focused on premium offerings for designers, freelancers and agencies, the Omaha-based startup today opened its site to public signups …

  • “Hosting for designers” startup Flywheel lands funding, opens beta

    Flywheel, the Omaha startup on a mission to make web hosting easy for designers, is in month two of its private beta, with more than 150 design firms and freelancers using its product. “We’re a hosting company, but we also look at ourselves as a software company,” co-founder Rick Knudtson said. “We’re trying to solve…

  • Omaha trio behind Flywheel hopes to help designers with hosting hangups

    A trio with ties to Silicon Prairie News has revealed its next endeavor, Flywheel, a startup offering premium WordPress hosting and soon a management product. SPN co-founder and CEO Dusty Davidson teamed up in early August with Rick Knudtson and Tony …

  • Barcamp Omaha comes to Slowdown Sept. 8, tickets on sale

    Barcamp Omaha, an unconference now in its fifth year, is Sept. 8 at Slowdown in North Downtown Omaha, with an opening party kicking it off the night before, Sept. 7. Tickets ($10) went on sale today and, as in year’s past, are expected to sell out. The new year features a fresh look, too. A…

  • Arch team to speak Thursday at Cornstalks

    The team of four behind Arch (left), a mobile app that allows users to request media or information from other users, will speak Thursday at Cornstalks, a monthly forum for individuals interested in high-growth entrepreneurship. Though currently in private beta, Arch has showcased its potential on its website, archcrowd.com, and in a pomotional video (below).…