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Flywheel grows to 13 employees, plans move to Downtown office
Flywheel, Omaha’s WordPress hosting startup, has hired 10 more employees and is moving to a new office Downtown to accommodate its growth…
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Flywheel leaves private beta, rolls out hosting services to the public
Flywheel’s WordPress web hosting services are ready to fully get rolling. Focused on premium offerings for designers, freelancers and agencies, the Omaha-based startup today opened its site to public signups …
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“Hosting for designers” startup Flywheel lands funding, opens beta
Flywheel, the Omaha startup on a mission to make web hosting easy for designers, is in month two of its private beta, with more than 150 design firms and freelancers using its product. “We’re a hosting company, but we also look at ourselves as a software company,” co-founder Rick Knudtson said. “We’re trying to solve…
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Omaha trio behind Flywheel hopes to help designers with hosting hangups
A trio with ties to Silicon Prairie News has revealed its next endeavor, Flywheel, a startup offering premium WordPress hosting and soon a management product. SPN co-founder and CEO Dusty Davidson teamed up in early August with Rick Knudtson and Tony …
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Prairie Moves: Jennifer Hoyt, Red Nova Labs, Bumble 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…
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Playing tonight, Doom DJ puts the party playlist in the people’s hands
As anyone who’s had the minor misfortune of attending a party at my apartment can attest, I, against my better judgement and others’ protestations, enjoy masquerading as a DJ. And, although I possess just one form of low-grade DJ software and zero skill jockeying discs, I get strangely territorial about challengers to my throne at…
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GoPollGo.com launched Friday, how many polls have you made?
Just before 5 p.m. this past Friday, GoPollGo.com, the idea that Ben Schaechter, a Creighton University senior, had pitched in our first Creative Capital Pitch Session, was launched into public beta. Ben’s work on the polling web application with real-time and geolocation features began this past spring in his dorm room. When the fall semester…