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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.
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MusicSpoke pitches at Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Demo Day in STL
On November 9th Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator held their Demo Day in St. Louis. Lincoln’s MusicSpoke co-founder Jennifer Rosenblatt joined this year’s cohort after reading an article in SPN. MusicSpoke is an online marketplace for artist-owned sheet music. SPN caught up with Rosenblatt to see how it went. “It’s been a busy few days,” she said. “It was…
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Boxo is a subscription box for adventurous coffee drinkers
Truckily’s Derek Kean is moving back to Kansas City with a whole new startup for coffee drinkers who like to try new things. When Kean arrived in Hong Kong from Kansas City in 2013, he started importing small batches of coffee from coffee roasters in the U.S. for fun. “They would arrive at our door and…
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How Proxibid turned a crazy idea into an e-commerce powerhouse
The founders of Proxibid look back on their 15 year journey from Dot-com dream to high-growth startup. Even for people who lived through it, it’s hard to remember what technology was like around the year 2000. No wi-fi. No cloud. No smart phones. Nearly everyone was still accessing the web via dial-up services. But Proxibid founders…
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Ace Blooms wants to grow the flower market for men
If you’ve ever bought flowers online, you’ve flipped through dozens of bouquets trying to decide which one says “You’re a pretty awesome grandma.” But what many buyers don’t realize is that when you send flowers, the order is being fulfilled by a florist near grandma’s house. If that’s in small town Nebraska, they might not have…
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DealAnyDay helps consumers find discounts in their city—no coupon required
Mailani Veney’s Hawaiian heritage permeates the culture of her Lincoln startup, DealAnyDay. “It’s been really easy for us to recruit talent because of our ‘Aloha Spirit,’” said Veney, the company President. “It’s the spirit of doing something without expecting something else in return.” DealAnyDay is a website and mobile app that allows users to search…
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With Proseeds you can donate to your favorite nonprofits at no cost
Donating to your favorite nonprofits just got easier—and free. Proseeds is a seamless way for people to support their favorite local nonprofit organizations by simply visiting participating Proseeds merchants. Upon signing up, consumers choose one or more of their favorite nonprofits they wish to support and link an existing credit or debit card to their…
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Lawnhiro wants to use Zillow data to become Uber for lawns
Many startups are born out of a personal pain point. Lincoln startup Lawnhiro is no exception. “I’m a single dad and would come home after work, make dinner and notice the lawn needed to be mowed,” said Jacob Christensen, Lawnhiro founder. “The grass was super tall, but at the same time I was tired from work…
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MusicSpoke joins Prosper Women Entrepreneurs accelerator in St. Louis
Lincoln based MusicSpoke has announced that it will take part in the Prosper Women Entrepreneurs Startup Accelerator in St. Louis, Missouri, this fall. Jennifer Rosenblatt, CEO and co-founder, will participate in the three-month intensive program designed specifically for women looking to grow their businesses. Rosenblatt credits a Silicon Prairie News story about mobile content publishing company…
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Zinnia’s Andy Holz on the many trials of startup life
Zinnia has completed over 700 orders in the last year, and they’ve learned major lessons along the way. Since SPN first profiled Zinnia last August, the online floral marketplace team has been hustling. The team is currently working with one florist in Omaha. Zinna co-founder Andy Holz explained that they plan on expanding to Lincoln…