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10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to Lincoln’s startup community
While the Silicon Prairie may span across several states, include vastly different types of companies and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds (and football rivalries), supportive communities are one factor that tie them all together. Whether you’re in Omaha or Des Moines, Kansas City or Cedar Rapids, you’ll find people who really care about helping their fellow…
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With “expanded mission” Don’t Panic Labs lends technical help outside
Don’t Panic Labs fielded and consistently passed on offers for consulting work for some time following its launch in late 2010. But eventually Don’t Panic Labs, the technical arm of Lincoln-based software investment firm Nebraska Global …
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Busy Beehive graduates to new space, looks ahead to “critical times”
Beehive Industries is movin’ on up … to the fourth floor. The Lincoln company, now 18 months old, is growing up, in a sense; in May, it moved upstairs one floor in the Haymarket district …
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Startup Nebraska launches, Kiene shares ‘state of Nebraska’ (Video)
Startup Nebraska, a statewide effort in conjunction with the Startup America Partnership, launched Friday with a hour-long event organized by individuals spearheading the cause. “This is very exciting,” Tom Chapman of Nebraska Global, the event’s emcee, opened the program in front of about 40 attendees. “I think we have sort of the startup motif going,”…
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Startup Nebraska: Now is the time to get involved
The Startup Nebraska effort is launching on Friday. What does this mean? It means that now is the time to get involved. The event is a launch but not a completed …
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Omaha Chamber names new entrepreneurship director, Dusty Reynolds
The Greater Omaha Chamber has informed Silicon Prairie News that Dusty Reynolds will take over as the Chamber’s new director of entrepreneurship and innovation, effective Nov. 14. Reynolds will be part of the Greater Omaha Economic Development Partnership, whose mission is to increase business, investment and employment in Greater Omaha. In his new role, Reynolds…
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Innovation Chamber: What is it like to work in a startup?
On August 29, I began working for Nebraska Global. Nebraska Global is an odd place because it partners a software investment fund with the creation of software enterprises. Currently, our portfolio includes a number of startup companies – including two that I am working with more intimately. Moreover, our company itself is relatively young –…
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Hudl’s John Wirtz: ‘We don’t … do anything unless we can be the best’
On the eve of kicking off the football season that will be his company’s biggest yet, Hudl COO John Wirtz presented at Cornstalks on Thursday night, sharing some pages from a playbook that’s helped Hudl build its field’s top-ranked team over the last five years. Hudl, based in Lincoln, makes web-based analysis and coaching tools…
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Hudl’s John Wirtz to speak Thursday at Tom Chapman’s last Cornstalks
As football teams across the country gear up for their seasons to start in the coming weeks, a man whose company is central to what so many of those teams hope to accomplish will update us on his own team’s outlook for the upcoming season. John Wirtz, the co-founder and COO of Hudl, will speak…
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Innovation Chamber: How to engage in entrepreneurship & keep a day job
So, you are not an entrepreneur, but you want to engage in the Silicon Prairie community. What should you do? First, I question whether or not you are an entrepreneur. In my opinion, entrepreneurship looks a bit like a bell curve. While most people are not as entrepreneurial as Richard Branson, many could become entrepreneurs…