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SPN interviews Jay Wilkinson of Nebraska Angels
Before Omaha-based SkyVu Pictures received national attention with its first iPhone app, Battle Bears, it had the attention of a small group of angel investors in its home state. The group, Nebraska Angels, is made of up about 35 individuals who collaborate on due diligence while making investment decisions on their own. Formed in 2006…
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Sioux Falls inaugural Domain Xchange Jan. 22
A new tradition is about to begin in Sioux Falls. It’ll be a holiday tradition like no other, redefining the term stocking stuffer. This Tuesday will be the first-ever Xtreme Xmas Domain Xchange. The event originated from a Twitter conversation I had about how great a domain would be as a Christmas gift. I always…
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UNL competition winners to start businesses in 2010
Jessica Quick was awarded first place in the graduate track for Top to Bottom Baby Boutique, a retail cloth diaper store which will open in Omaha next year. There’s that old mantra, “nothing ventured, nothing gained.” Nearly 30 teams of local entrepreneurs took that advice to heart earlier this month, submitting business plans to do battle with…
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Weekly Wrap Up
Mentioned this week: Filming on location outside of the Scott Technology Center, Wednesday’s day trip to Des Moines to visit with contributor Geoff Wood and others, Lincoln-based Archrival one of 14 to make Facebook’s developer consultant program, Jimmy Winter of RockDex wins Invest Nebraska’s East-2-West Competition, show guest Ken Moreno of the Scott Technology Center…
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The Nadas’ year-long recording project reaches completion
One band that is taking an innovative approach to the process of making an album is The Nadas [link thenadas.com], Des Moines-based roots rocker, in their new project Almanac [link thenadas.com/almanac]. I recently had the chance to sit down with one of the band’s founders, Jason Walsmith [twitter: @thenadas], at the Authentic Records [link: authenticrecords.com]…
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Closing this week: iPhone app submissions, reader survey
BitMethod, based in Des Moines, developed BNO News’ iPhone push application, which was recently rated one of the Top 10 Mobile Web Products of 2009 by ReadWriteWeb. iPhone/iPod Touch apps developed on the Prairie Next week, Aaron Onken will publish a post with a list of names, icons, and descriptions of iPhone / iPod Touch…
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Five in Five with Mike Templeton from Catchfire Media
Name(s): Katie Miller-Smith, Jarad Bernstein, Mike Templeton, Abby Harvey Full-time job(s): Working at Catchfire Media, a social media strategy and consulting firm City you’re blogging from: Des Moines 1. What is the name, subject and URL of your blog? Our blog doesn’t have a catchy name (yet), so for now it’s just the Catchfire Media…
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Cornstalks set for Dec. 16
It’s Cornstalks time again, folks! Wow. It actually occurs to me that this will be the last one of 2009. My, how the year has flown by! Last time (for those of you who weren’t there), we heard from Tim Kephart of Graffiti Tracker and Susan Thaden of Client Resources, Inc. We posted that footage…
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RockDex wins $50K at Invest Nebraska competition
Dan Hoffman of Invest Nebraska Corporation poses with Jimmy Winter of RockDex following Friday’s competition. Congrats to Jimmy Winter of RockDex for winning Invest Nebraska Corporation’s first-ever East-2-West – The Nebraska New Venture Competition! Jimmy and RockDex take home the $50,000 equity investment, which they will use to expand their server capacity. According to Jimmy,…
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Performance Marketing provides workspace, mentoring
Performance Marketing (PM), a West Des Moines-based creative agency, decided to take a different approach to celebrating their 10-year anniversary. Rather than throwing a big celebratory party, they took a staff poll to find ideas that would give back to the community. One such idea was the creation of PM Underground, a project that is…