Dusty Reynolds

  • Omaha startup leaders hope Event Draft takes community to next level

    A group of Omaha startup community members hopes a football-like draft for dates will bring a more consistent lineup of gatherings and help create a more unified, empowered startup environment in 2014. They’re calling it the “Event Draft” because they want startup community members to each take a week for an event they’ll plan and…

  • Startup founder to address failure at KANEKO event Thursday

    This Thursday KANEKO, in conjunction with the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, will host the first in a three-part series of lectures on the the lessons that can be learned from professional and personal failure. Marcus Nelson (left), founder and CEO of San Francisco startup Addvocate, will speak at the first Failing Forward Conversations along…

  • 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…

  • Out and about by The Bay: A photo recap of SPN’s visit to San Francisco

    Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but…

  • SPN Out & About: Visiting San Francisco August 1-3

    Next Wednesday, Dusty Reynolds, the director of innovation and entrepreneurship for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, and I will touch down in San Francisco for three days of meetings with entrepreneurs and investors in the area. Though we’re based in the Midwest, it’s important to continue conversations and develop new relationships with other key…

  • Hudl, Proxibid find common ground at Chamber event on innovation

    For all the high marks Hudl has earned over the last half-decade — and the company, which has grown from 12 high school clients in 2008 to about two thirds of the high school football teams in the country this year, has had plenty of positive report cards — Hudl co-founder and chief product officer…

  • Omaha Chamber presents first Common Ground event July 24

    The Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce will kick off a new event July 24 geared towards startup executives and employees. Common Ground, a quarterly event, brings together two companies for an open discussion. The event begins at 9 a.m. with a three-hour private session, and then opens to the public at noon for a lunch…

  • More startups and students to join SPN Startup Job Crawl on Feb. 15

    On Wednesday, Feb. 15 from 5-8 p.m. we’re bringing startups and students of all majors together for something beyond a typical career fair. If you haven’t registered for next Wednesday’s Silicon Prairie News Job Crawl, make sure to join the 130 students from Creighton, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Nebraska-Omaha and other metro-area schools who…

  • Guest Post: Four goals for Omaha Chamber’s entrepreneurship director

    (The following is a guest post by Dusty Reynolds of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce.) Happy 2012! While it’s still up for debate whether it’s “two thousand twelve” or “twenty-twelve,” it’s always enjoyable to start fresh and look to the future. This is the time of the year where procrastinators (like myself) realize that…

  • Prairie Moves: Clay Wiese, Mike Roeder, Kaimi and more

    With our inaugural Thinc Iowa in the books, our staff time is freed up for some serious content production. Take this Prairie Moves, for example, it’s two weeks worth of goodness – links to funding news, product announcements, media mentions and more. Each time I open my Google Reader to grab the latest headlines from…