Eric Dinger

  • How Powderhook won Outdoor Life’s corporate award after 1 year of business

    How Powderhook won Outdoor Life’s corporate award after 1 year of business

    “At its current trajectory, we will soon associate access with Powerhook the same way we’ve come to associate the 2nd Amendment with the NRA.”

  • Powderhook’s Eric Dinger: How I balance my startup and my marriage

    Powderhook’s Eric Dinger: How I balance my startup and my marriage

    Balancing the demands of a marriage, family and startup can be tough. My wife, Stephanie, has been an integral part of any success we’ve had at Powderhook. She doesn’t have a title, tasks or projects, yet her role is essential. We’ve been in business a little over a year, and our marriage is stronger than…

  • Powderhook closes $650K seed round, hires five team members

    This week Powderhook, a free web and mobile service connecting outdoorsmen with places to hunt and fish, closed a $650,000 seed round led by the Nebraska Angels. The funding, which has been secured for a few months, will build Powderhook’s software development team…

  • Eric Dinger’s 10 reasons to quit your job and work at a startup

    (Guest post by Eric Dinger) In every gig there are career days, work days and job days. Ever come home from work unfulfilled, defeated and crabby? That’s because you had what I call a “job day.” Do you sometimes have days worth of things that suck to do, but just need to get done? That’s…

  • Powderhook expands to all 50 states, logs 535 million total acres

    Powderhook, a free web and mobile service that connects hunters and anglers with places to hunt and fish, is now in all 50 states with more than 535 million acres of public land logged. Recently the Lincoln startup finished using public data from state and federal wildlife divisions to map all of the publicly accessible…

  • Powderhook expands to 11 states, lists 20K hunting, fishing locations

    Lincoln-based startup Powderhook—a free web and mobile service that connects hunters and anglers with places to hunt and fish—has now expanded to 11 states, stretching from Texas to North Dakota and more in the middle of America.…

  • Lincoln startup connects hunters, anglers with available outdoor sites

    For an experienced entrepreneur like Eric Dinger, finding a field he is passionate about is almost as important as building a business. Now with his newly launched Lincoln-based startup Powderhook—an online marketplace that allows individuals to find places to hunt and fish—Dinger is doing both …

  • Energy Pioneer Solutions wins Invest Nebraska’s New Venture Competition

    Following the conclusion of last Friday’s Invest Nebraska East-2-West New Venture Competition at the Old Mattress Factory, I spoke with the winner of the event, Scott Kleeb of Energy Pioneer Solutions. I asked him about the backstory of his new endeavor (if Kleeb’s name rings a bell, it’s because he’s ran for public office twice…