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Out and about by The Bay: A photo recap of SPN’s visit to San Francisco
Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but…
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Gumroad founder builds products to scale himself, leave legacy (Video)
When Sahil Lavingia turned 18, he came to an important conclusion. “I was an adult,” he said, “so I decided I was going to get serious about my career.” That career, in a very short span, has included stints at Pinterest, Turntable.fm and now Gumroad. Lavingia founded Gumroad, which is designed to help people share…
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Sahil Lavingia: ‘Build products to scale yourself.’
Sahil Lavingia is a 19-year-old who likes to build things. Apparently big things. The founder of Gumroad, a site that “lets you sell like you share,” Lavingia draws on his background with Pinterest and Turntable to produce more, better, faster. “I build products to scale myself,” the founding Pinterest designer said during his morning talk…
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Get to know the Big Omaha 2012 Thursday speakers
Already pick out your clothes in anticipation of Big Omaha? Now, it’s time for you to do your homework on the speaker lineup. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard part and put together a series of links on the latest news and videos of each of the speakers in hopes of building your enthusiasm…
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Help us welcome a founder, a chef and a journalist to Big Omaha
We’re super excited to introduce to you to two more Big Omaha 2012 presenters and our emcee. Please help us welcome Sahil Lavingia, the founder of one of Silicon Valley’s most buzzed about startups, Gumroad, and Eddie Huang, the dynamic young chef and budding media personality behind …