Comments of the Week: GiftBright, Joe Olsen interviews, and more

From Adam Haeder: Congrats to the folks at http://giftbright.com for winning the prize. I think it’s a great idea; with 4 kids of my own and more birthday parties every year, this is a service I can really get behind. | From Chris McCann: Big startup opportunity: make it easy to go from email newsletters…

In case you missed the introduction post to this new series, you can find it at http://spne.ws/88L.

From Startup Weekend Omaha – The Teams:

Barb Durham   

Mar 20, 2010 09:24 PM

I really like the “Gift for Kids” idea, because I NEVER know what to get my nieces!

From Startup Weekend Presentations – Live Stream at 6 p.m. CDT:

Adam Haeder   

Mar 21, 2010 10:30 PM

Congrats to the folks at http://giftbright.com for winning the prize. I think it’s a great idea; with 4 kids of my own and more birthday parties every year, this is a service I can really get behind.

From Traditional Business Skills: An interview with Stephanie Healy:

Matt Sherman   

Mar 23, 2010 11:09 AM

Great interview Joe…and great real world advice Stephanie. Seeing how other successful businesses have operated is very valuable and makes me want to go back and do it all over again and not start something right out of college.

From Startup Digest launching in Omaha Monday, March 29:

chris mccann   

Mar 23, 2010 04:43 PM

Interesting use case adding a copy to scribd! We tried posterous and wordpress but the formatting tends to mess up with any blog platform.   

Big startup opportunity: make it easy to go from email newsletters to blogs! It’s really a big pain point especially for us

From Traditional Business Skills: An interview with Mike McCarthy:

pat    

Mar 24, 2010 03:32 PM

Well done Joe. Mike’s comment “We don’t value failure high enough in Nebraska”, was particularly accurate. Good interview.

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