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Evan Williams: Invaluable insight from 20 years of experience
A native of Clarks, Neb., Evan Williams’ founding of Blogger, Twitter and Medium has significantly impacted the way we share our stories online. In 45 minutes, Williams shares much of the insight he’s gained from more than two decades of experience. Take a seat, grab a coffee and soak in all in. This isn’t one…
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Ev Williams’ talk in a 5-minute Tapestry recap
Don’t have 30 minutes to watch a Big Omaha speaker video? No problem. Our friends at Tapestry have compiled many of the highlights of our speaker talks into easily digestible, readable presentations. Be on the lookout over the next week, as we’ll be sharing a Tapestry for each of our speakers. It’s simple: tap to…
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Evan Williams: A play-by-play of his journey the last 20 years
My play-by-play of the Nebraska native and Blogger, Twitter and Medium leader: Evan Williams thinks the name “Big Omaha” is a little redundant. That’s because Omaha is synonymous with big, from his childhood point of view, he said. Clarks, his hometown was only 379 when he lived there in the 70s and 80s. Clarks is…
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Twitter’s Evan Williams coming to Big Omaha, tickets on sale at 11 a.m. CST
Thanks to everyone who joined us last night at Krug Park—we had a great time catching up. If you couldn’t make it, you may not have heard about our latest speaker to join this year’s Big Omaha slate. We’re extremely excited to announce that Evan Williams is coming home to Nebraska to speak at this…
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Nebraska native Evan Williams holds estimated $2.6 billion stake in Twitter
It’s been a big week for Twitter—yesterday the company’s initial public offering of stock opened trading on the New York Stock Exchange at $45 per share, raising 73 percent in the first day of trading. But for Nebraska native and Twitter co-founder Evan Williams, the company’s IPO is just the beginning. Williams, who holds a 10.4 percent…
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Innovation Chamber: A stack of aces
This week I was discussing the need for Nebraska to rebrand itself with a friend, when we struck up an idea that I would like to float out to the Silicon Prairie News readers. Currently our economic development leaders and minds are focused on recruiting companies to the states within the Silicon Prairie. What if…
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Prairie Moves: Jay Hannah, Dwolla & Evan Williams
(Photo by Jon Smith ‘Una Nos Lucror’) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie…
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Evan Williams video from UNL
As we reported, Evan Williams of Twitter was at UNL’s Raikes School last Friday afternoon. It was interesting to hear directly from Evan on his vision, history and outlook into Twitter’s future. Enjoy and stay tuned for more stories we’re going to cut of some of the outstanding students enrolled at the school.
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Webcast: founder of Twitter at UNL tomorrow
Nebraska native Evan Williams will return to his home state tomorrow to participate in a series of events at his alma mater, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Unfortunately, these events are not open to the public, but two of them will be webcasted. Evan Williams, the founder and chief executive of Twitter, will be at the University…
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Weekly Wrap Up
Every Friday, we’ll be linking to the previous week’s news that pertains to “SPNers” and listing the upcoming week’s events that pique our interest. News of Last Week 3/27 – NE Creative: MixTape.me, latest project by What Cheer 3/30 – OWH: Movers: Venture based on music buzz, Jimmy Winter of Music Arsenal 3/30 – Life…