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Shane Mac at Big Omaha: “Curiosity is the core of all innovation”
Shane Mac, CEO and Co-founder of Assist, speaks at Big Omaha 2015 about how he discovered the secret of curiosity. With energy and enthusiasm, Mac shares how he found success after realizing he didn’t know anything and began asking questions. “All these doors started opening when I stopped being the guy who knew it all.” Watch more…
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Big Omaha announces 2 more world-changing speakers
Big Omaha has announced two more speakers for this year’s conference: Shane Mac and Shivani Siryoa.
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Real relationships make things happen
Sometimes, when you look back, a single moment in time can have so much more impact on the path we are on than we think. Big Omaha is one of those. Four years ago, I responded to a tweet from a girl who lived in Omaha. A week later, on Skype, she said I should…
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Zaarly rolls out redesigned website, hints at ‘Zaarly Anywhere’
Zaarly announced a redesigned website Monday, rolling out changes that its Kansas City-based CEO Bo Fishback said improve the entire user experience. Crediting user feedback in a company blog post, Fishback outlined the three major updates: ability to browse offers without logging in; redesigned browse map, realtime search and “my activity” …
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Zaarly adds Arrington to investor list, sets sights on seven core cities
Less than a week after its national rollout on May 19, Zaarly CEO Bo Fishback sat down with TechCrunch co-editor Michael Arrington in a backstage interview at TechCrunch Disrupt New York. “Full disclosure,” Arrington said at the end of the May 23 interview, “I asked you if I could invest and we’re trying to work…
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Prairie Moves: Brandon Weber, Shane Mac, VineMe 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event
Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy’s producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she’s given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie…