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Startup Weekend Lincoln winner helps fitness instructors find subs
Exercise My Schedule, “a better way to manage group fitness scheduling,” emerged from a field of six as the winner of Startup Weekend Lincoln. A marketing consultant by day and fitness instructor by night, Ali Schwanke came up with the idea for Exercise My Schedule. In her pitch Sunday night, Schwanke explained that her email…
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Ladies Who Launch connects female entrepreneurs in Lincoln
When Jill Thayer Liliedahl, founder of the frozen treat company Pop Art, and Amber Pankonin, creator of the health-oriented recipe app StirList, met on the Lincoln, Neb. startup scene, the pair began noticing a missing demographic at the events they were attending. Both women were startled by the lack of female entrepreneurs. “We would show…
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StirList extends strong run, winning Lincoln Startup Week’s Idea Pitch
Lincoln Startup Week continued Tuesday night with a business plan competition. Invest Nebraska, Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development and PitchBurner partnered to create the Startup Week Idea Pitch. Participants had five minutes to share their ideas with a panel of judges for a chance to win $1,000 to help get their idea off the ground.…
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StirList wins first Startup Weekend Lincoln, eyes Lincoln Startup Week
As a kickoff to Lincoln’s first Startup Week, Lincoln’s first Startup Weekend was, by all accounts, a big success. “For the first event ever, it far exceeded my expectations,” said lead coordinator Amanda Thonen. The community support that rallied around the event was “atypical,” she said, perhaps because the 54-hour marathon was just the start…
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Watch the Startup Wekened Lincoln finale live at 6 p.m. (Updated)
The 10 teams of the inaugural Startup Weekend Lincoln are in the homestretch. All that stands between those teams and the finish line of a whirlwind weekend is tonight’s closing pitch session, which we will broadcast …
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A look at the teams and Day 2 photos from Startup Weekend Lincoln
The hometown Husker football team was on the road today, but that didn’t mean the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus was devoid of teams competing. Startup Weekend Lincoln helped ensure that. The event’s marathon middle day, which is now nearing its conclusion, saw 10 teams inside UNL’s Avery Hall busily building on business ideas. Sixty-eight participants…
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Startup Weekend Lincoln to debut September 7-9
Startup Weekend’s spread through the region’s major college towns continues. Organizers today announced that Startup Weekend Lincoln will make its debut September 7-9 …