Nick Bowden

  • MindMixer nabs $4 million from Nelnet, Dundee, Optimas and others

    MindMixer nabs $4 million from Nelnet, Dundee, Optimas and others

    It’s shaping up to be quite the year for MindMixer. Last month, the Omaha startup revealed it acquired a social media analytics company. Today, it announced it closed a $4 million Series B round led by Lincoln, Neb.-based Nelnet, a publicly traded company. Omaha-based …

  • MindMixer acquires VoterTide to add social media tools, tech team

    One Omaha Gov 2.0 startup has purchased another. MindMixer today announced it has acquired VoterTide, a social media analytics startup that gives politicians and special interest groups insight into their online audience. As a result, VoterTide’s technology will be integrated into MindMixer’s online …

  • Watch MindMixer present at the Code for America Summit (Video)

    MindMixer, an Omaha startup that makes a web-based platform for community engagement, is in the homestretch of the inaugural Code for America Accelerator, which concludes with a Demo Day on Tuesday in San Francisco. The accelerator, run by San Francisco-based nonprofit Code for America, is a four-month program designed to give tech-based …

  • MindMixer launches RNC site, continues to expand client base

    With November elections fewer than four months away and the Democratic and Republican conventions less than two months out, political conversation in the United States is beginning to reach a fever pitch. And as of this week, one Omaha startup’s platform is being used to help bring more order to some of that conversation. The…

  • Code for America Accelerator elects MindMixer to first class

    MindMixer last week announced it has been chosen to participate in the first Code for America Accelerator, a four-month program run by Code for America designed to give tech-based civic startups the network and training they need to grow. MindMixer, an Omaha startup that makes a web-based platform for community engagement, was one of seven…

  • The strategic and tactical roles of a founder

    First things first, the role of a founder is to do things like this. Share their experience, learn from others’ experiences, and give back to communities that have helped shape and grow their companies. I believe founders have both strategic and tactical roles. Strategic roles are things like crafting the vision, creating and maintaining a…

  • MindMixer raises $1.9m seed round led by Dundee Venture Capital

    MindMixer, a web-based platform billed as a “virtual town hall,” announced today it closed a $1.9 million seed round led by Dundee Venture Capital, an Omaha-based venture capital firm whose founder, Mark Hasebroock, is also a co-founder and executive of the startup. The round was led but not fully funded by Dundee VC and brings…

  • Summit panels focus on startups and ‘studentpreneurs’ (Video)

    At this year’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, one of the three breakout tracks focused on startups, involving five entrepreneurs from a variety of industries. Videos from the track are now available (below) and feature SPN’s own Danny Schreiber and Michael Stacy as moderators. …

  • Terry turns to Omaha startup’s site for feedback on internet piracy

    Rep. Lee Terry of Nebraska (left), a former co-sponsor of the Stop Online Piracy Act (“SOPA”) who dropped support for the bill on Jan. 18, is looking to his constituents for ideas on how to curb online piracy. Utilizing the virtual town hall product of Omaha startup MindMixer, Terry has posted “Internet Piracy” as one…

  • Prairie Moves: Jennifer Hoyt, Red Nova Labs, Bumble and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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 Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…