Event Draft

  • Speed networking kicks off onslaught of ‘Event Draft’ events in Omaha

    Thirty entrepreneurs will get a chance to speed network with subject experts from 7-9 p.m. March 26 at Aromas Coffeehouse in Benson. It kicks off the first set of events chosen during the Omaha Event Draft on Feb. 13.

  • Diverse events come from first Omaha Startup Community Event Draft

    Fifty days of events in the next 106 days. Entrepreneurs will be in for quite the tidal wave of events from now through June after Thursday’s first Startup Community Event Draft. More than 50 Omahans attended the draft in which nearly every participant volunteered to put on an entrepreneurial-related event that will get up to…

  • Five things you need to know about Thursday’s Omaha Event Draft

    (Guest post by Dusty Reynolds) Thursday evening is Omaha’s inaugural Event Draft, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Aroma’s/402 Collective, 6051 Maple St., in Benson. Each event will receive up to $400 in grants from a $20,000 fund provided by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce to help fund tech entrepreneurship events…

  • 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…