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Six Straight Shot startups stay in Omaha, five receive funding
With its inaugural class of startups through the program, Omaha-based accelerator Straight Shot is looking to the future and preparing for round two, which will launch June 2014 …
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Straight Shot’s inaugural class uses demo day to launch forward
Thursday night more than 425 entrepreneurs, investors and members of the Omaha community gathered at the Aksarben Cinema for Straight Shot’s inaugural Demo Day. “All of the companies did such a nice job tonight,” said Dundee Venture Captial founder Mark Hasebroock …
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Straight Shot reveals inaugural class of seven startups, three from Omaha
The Omaha startup community just grew by four startups, or seven if you’re counting three local companies you’ve likely never heard of before today. The new names and faces behind them—14 founders in all—make up the inaugural class of Straight Shot, Dundee Venture Capital’s new startup accelerator. “We think we have a diverse group (and)…
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Hayneedle co-founder to launch ecommerce, SaaS startup accelerator
A little more than 10 years ago, Mark Hasebroock teamed up with two other Omaha entrepreneurs to buy and turn Hammocks.com into a viable business. Today, that company is known as Hayneedle, and it’s one of the internet’s largest retailers. Hasebroock (left), who now manages a venture capital fund, has a new goal in the…