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UNO CEO club takes home four awards at national conference
OMAHA—The students of the University of Nebraska Omaha Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization (CEO) may not want to work for others in the future, but their unorthodox approach to entrepreneurship worked for the judges at the recent Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization Nationals Conference…
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The new summer job: Nebraska high schoolers score tech internships
It’s a sunny afternoon in Omaha—a great day for teens on summer break to be outside. But high schoolers Okina Tran of Millard South High School and Katie Nguyen of Burke High School are working inside the darkened Aksarben offices of game developer, SkyVu Entertainment. And they’re excited about it…
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Student startup Expat Care looks to reduce loss of medical knowledge
“It was just a great idea that had to happen,” Patrick Kwete, a University of Nebrsaka at Omaha bioinformatics student, said of his brainwave of January 2011. Expat Care, a software system designed to facilitate easier communication about treatment results between doctors across the globe, was incorporated last summer. While talking with doctors and med…
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Prairie Portrait: Brady Churchill, University of Nebraska at Omaha junior
Silicon Prairie News: When and how did BetterBoo first catch your eye, and what drove your decision to become involved with the startup? | Brady Churchill: I initially met Nick Chmura, the founder of Betterboo.com, last October at the National CEO Conference in Fort Worth. He spoke again at the Midwest CEO Conference hosted at…
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Inaugural Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference coming Friday to UNO
The inaugural Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference (MWEC), an event that aims to provide attendees with actionable items for growing businesses …
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Prairie Moves: StartupCity, QuickCal, OneLouder 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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Startup Weekend Omaha: Final pitches live-streaming at 7 p.m.
Startup Weekend Omaha concludes tonight with a whopping 18 teams pitching their products to a panel of four judges and the crowd gathered at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner, followed by presentations at 7. And if you can’t be among the crowd at Mammel Hall?…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Teams and Day 2 photos
The Saturday midday check-in at Startup Weekend Omaha recently wrapped up, and 18 teams are back at work, scattered throughout the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall, preparing minimum viable products for Sunday night’s final presentations. Friday’s opening pitch session saw 51 ideas proposed, and those were whittled down to …
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Events: TechBrew Des Moines, WordCamp Kansas City and more
We’re striking a nice balance of events across the Priarie this week. With all events starting in the latter half of the week, the SBIR/STTR Proposal Strategy Bootcamp workshop begins on Thursday in Omaha and TechBrew starts sipping later that evening in Des Moines. Taking us into the weekend, we find …
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Prairie Moves: Sojern, Zac Triemert, James Eliason & more
Photo by Frapestaartje via Flickr Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps you 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…