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  • Calvin Pappas puts school on hold, focuses on privacy startup SelectOut

    In honor of Data Privacy Day today, Calvin Pappas launched a new look for his online privacy management site, SelectOut. He also added features aimed at helping individuals protect their online privacy and companies shore up their privacy practices. “Give or take, well over half of companies on the web don’t have any privacy policy,”…

  • SelectOut’s Pappas, 20, gives his take on the ‘Silicon Prairie’ (Video)

    Calvin Pappas, founder of internet privacy startup SelectOut, recently recounted his experience of spending a summer in Silicon Valley as an intern and then returning to Lincoln, Nebraska to pursue his entrepreneurial endeavor. “(Silicon Valley) has everything you could possibly want,” Pappas (left) said in an Ignite Lincoln presentation in January. “They offered me several…

  • Remember to stay focused and keep shipping

    (This is a guest post by Calvin Pappas.) Following up Dusty Davidson’s great article on goal setting will be no easy task, but coincidentally by writing this I’m taking a step in the right direction for one of my goals to write more. Looking back on what process I go through to set and achieve…

  • 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. …

  • Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more

    Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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…

  • Prairie Moves: Michael Collins, Goodsmiths, 34ideas 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…

  • Summer at home proving valuable for SelectOut founder Pappas

    Midway through a phone call last week, Calvin Pappas made an admission about the sometimes disorienting nature of running a startup. “If it weren’t for your email, I probably wouldn’t know that today was actually Thursday,” said Pappas, a 20-year-old University of Nebraska student and the founder of SelectOut. (For an introduction to Pappas and…

  • Prairie Moves: Scott Blaine, Secret Penguin, Zaarly and more

    Published every Tuesday, 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • Thriving privacy site SelectOut.org puts 19-year-old in high demand

    Calvin Pappas seems to eat, sleep and breathe online privacy policy. Sometimes almost literally. Pappas, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Nebraska and founder of online privacy manager SelectOut.org said he has brushed up on internet privacy by reading more than 600 policies — most of which amount to 2,500 words of drowse-inducing legalese.…