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Workshop secures $12M funding round — among the largest Series A raised by a Nebraska company
Omaha-based Workshop raised a $12M Series A round 18 months after securing $5M in seed funding. The startup plans to use the latest investment to innovate its internal communications platform and scale the team.
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Flywheel grows to 13 employees, plans move to Downtown office
Flywheel, Omaha’s WordPress hosting startup, has hired 10 more employees and is moving to a new office Downtown to accommodate its growth…
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Flywheel leaves private beta, rolls out hosting services to the public
Flywheel’s WordPress web hosting services are ready to fully get rolling. Focused on premium offerings for designers, freelancers and agencies, the Omaha-based startup today opened its site to public signups …
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“Hosting for designers” startup Flywheel lands funding, opens beta
Flywheel, the Omaha startup on a mission to make web hosting easy for designers, is in month two of its private beta, with more than 150 design firms and freelancers using its product. “We’re a hosting company, but we also look at ourselves as a software company,” co-founder Rick Knudtson said. “We’re trying to solve…
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Omaha trio behind Flywheel hopes to help designers with hosting hangups
A trio with ties to Silicon Prairie News has revealed its next endeavor, Flywheel, a startup offering premium WordPress hosting and soon a management product. SPN co-founder and CEO Dusty Davidson teamed up in early August with Rick Knudtson and Tony …
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Layeredi teams up with Hurrdat, hires ex-Tripleseat designer
Layeredi, an Omaha mobile marketing startup co-founded by our own Dusty Davidson, has entered into a sales agreement with Hurrdat, a Lincoln social media marketing startup, that will allow the two companies to leverage each other’s strengths. …
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Randomnade targets simple, shareable strategy for serious gamers
Take time to talk with Rick Knudtson — as I do almost daily, since Silicon Prairie News and Tripleseat, Knudtson’s employer, share an office space— and two of his favorite forms of leisure quickly become evident: competitive gaming and football. So it’s fitting that Knudston often explains Randomnade, the competitive gaming strategy site he co-founded…
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UNO’s new IT Innovation degree launches promotional video
In August, I wrote a short post about UNO’s new degree, the IT Innovation degree, which was going to allow students combine an IT degree with another, customized field of study. According to UNO’s press release, students have expressed interest in focusing their IT coursework with application to another field of their interest. To complete…