Lincoln Startup Week

  • Startup Week is coming to Lincoln, Nov. 13-18

    Startup Week is coming to Lincoln, Nov. 13-18

    Startup Week is a free, week-long celebration of the startup community in Lincoln. Connect with the SPN team and other founders, funders and resource providers at events, Nov. 13-18.

  • Announcing the Ten Hour Challenge

    Announcing the Ten Hour Challenge

    Close out Lincoln Startup Week with us at the Ten Hour Challenge on Saturday, Nov. 18 at the Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.

  • Lincoln Startup Week returns September 25-30

    Lincoln Startup Week returns September 25-30

    Startup Week returns to Lincoln with programming and events running September 25-30. The 6th annual Lincoln Startup Week is a five-day celebration of the local community that builds momentum and opportunity around entrepreneurship, led by entrepreneurs and hosted in Lincoln’s favorite entrepreneurial spaces. ‘We have seen lots of growth over the last 6 years, not…

  • Nobl’s new office highlight of Lincoln Startup Week’s tech crawl

    Nobl’s new office highlight of Lincoln Startup Week’s tech crawl

    LINCOLN—More than 100 people turned out for a mid-week crawl of local tech startups in Lincoln Wednesday. The event, part of Lincoln Startup Week, aimed to show off offices of local startups like Hudl, Ebbeka Design and Nobl. Another dozen or so startups had tables setup at the Mill Coffee in the Haymarket.

  • Here are daily highlights for a packed Startup Week Lincoln, starting today

    LINCOLN—It’s already begun, but here’s your reminder that Startup Week Lincoln—the free, seven-day celebration of entrepreneurship—hits its stride starting today. There are almost 30 more events left through Friday, but one of the organizers, Brian Ardinger, says to make sure you get to the Mega Meetup Mashup tonight. It will bring together groups from all…

  • Lincoln Startup Week continues with family-friendly competition

    Those who attended the inaugural Lincoln Startup Week last year will remember the breathless excitement that surrounded it. Organizers and attendees alike seemed a bit awestruck whenever they talked about how the week had rather spontaneously come together. “It just sort of happened,” said Social Assurance’s Ben Pankonin while presenting Startup Weekend Lincoln prizes on…

  • Startup Weekend Lincoln winner helps fitness instructors find subs

    Exercise My Schedule, “a better way to manage group fitness scheduling,” emerged from a field of six as the winner of Startup Weekend Lincoln. A marketing consultant by day and fitness instructor by night, Ali Schwanke came up with the idea for Exercise My Schedule. In her pitch Sunday night, Schwanke explained that her email…

  • NMotion’s inaugural class shows off 12 weeks of work at Demo Day

    It’s over. After twelve weeks of hard work, the five companies chosen to take part in Lincoln startup accelerator NMotion’s inaugural class presented their products at Thursday’s Demo Day. “We’re here to celebrate our first graduating class,” said Brian Ardinger, managing director of NMotion. “And more importantly, we have people in the room to keep…

  • Lincoln Startup Week, Startup Weekend set to return in September

    Demo Day. Startup Weekend. Tech Crawl. Startup Olympics? Yup, Lincoln is getting its entrepreneurs off their keyboards and behind the steering wheels of go-karts for the Startup Olympics. The inaugural games will be one of more than a dozen events over a nine-day period in September that make up Lincoln Startup Week, a celebration of…

  • First Tech Crawl showcases Lincoln startup scene

    Though Fuse Coworking isn’t scheduled to open until Nov. 1, the new Lincoln coworking space rushed part of its clean up and renovation in order to be a stop on the city’s inaugural Tech Crawl on Thursday. “This is exactly what the essence of Fuse Coworking is about,” Fuse co-founder Matt Westenburg said. “It’s about…