Lincoln

  • SPN Interviews David Graff of Agile Sports Technologies

    I had the opportunity to catch up with David Graff, CEO of Agile Sports Technologies, while in Lincoln and he shared with me some of the amazing impact their company has already made in a relatively short time. Agile Sports was founded in February 2006 by Graff, Brian Kaiser and John Wirtz, and was officially…

  • MVF: Networking dinner to highlight innovation in tough economic times

    For this month’s Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) meeting, the regular Omaha attendees will be making their annual trek to Lincoln for a networking dinner at the Cornhusker Hotel (333 S. 13 St) on Thursday, November 19th. The topic of the evening will be “Innovation in Tough Economic Times – Strategies to Transform Outlook,” and the…

  • Lincoln YPG Entrepreneurship Speaker Series: Agile Sports

    A coach’s playbook is his Bible. It’s a tome of knowledge, honed to perfection by decade after decade of stunning victories and crushing defeats. And when it comes time to pen another opus of X’s, O’s and dotted lines, it’s not unusual to draw inspiration from games long since played. In many ways, John Wirtz…

  • Nothing but good from @badbanana

    A couple of big props came out last week for Tim Siedell, Creative Director at Lincoln-based Fuse Industries, for his wit behind the Twitter account @badbanna. Thanks to consistently hilarious 140 characters or less statements like the one above, @badbanana has over 160,000 followers. That number is sure to continue growing thanks to being named…

  • Archrival’s Red Bull Project X named FWA Site of the Day

    Congrats to Archrival for earning The FWA: Favourite Website Awards’ Site Of The Day yesterday for their work on Red Bull and Shaun White’s Project X site. The FWA recognizes the very best in cutting edge website design. From my understanding, this a well-respected award and I think it’s very well-deserved. Enjoy the screenshots below…

  • SPN interviews Collin Caneva of Green Bein’ Productions, Inc.

    Collin Caneva accepts that video games are a staple in many kids’ lives nowadays. But just because they spend hours a day clicking away in front of a screen doesn’t mean the time they spend in a virtual world needs to go to waste. Enter Kid Command, the first product developed by Caneva’s game studio,…

  • Red Bull Stash on Facebook developed by Lincoln-based Archrival

    Added last line in first paragraph at 6:10 p.m. Earlier this week, Red Bull Stash, a Facebook campaign developed by Archrival, went live. Conducted solely through Red Bull’s Facebook presence, it’s a scavenger hunt for Red Bull Energy Shots in cities across the U.S. Red Bull is conducting the campaign as a way of saying…

  • Creative Capital Pitch Session III: Eight to compete for $1,000 prize Thursday, Oct. 1

    Congratulations to Nancy Williams, Grant Stanley, Nick Knudson, Timothy Kephart, and Andrew Curran, for rounding out our contestant line-up! You can view their one-minute pitch videos below, along with those of the first three contestants announced, Kyle Laughlin, Joe Frost, and Brendan Evans. Now, it’s time for the last two rounds. Join us Thursday at…

  • Have an idea? $1,000 could be yours

    Of all the events we’ve been talking about lately, this is the only one I can think of that’s ready to put money in your pocket. Submit your idea in a one-minute pitch by Wednesday at 11:59 p.m. and you could be one of eight finalists chosen to present at October 1st’s Creative Capital Pitch…

  • Creative Capital Pitch Session III: Lincoln, here we come

    Thanks to the support we’ve received in Omaha, our Pitch Session will be making a road trip to our state’s capital to award another aspiring entrepreneur Invest Nebraska Corporation’s $1,000 prize. In partnership with the Lincoln Young Professionals Entrepreneurship Group, Creative Capital Pitch Session III will be held at Turbine Flats, a Lincoln idea community,…