Hopefully this announcement isn’t too short of notice for you, because if you’re free tomorrow evening it’ll be worth your time to check out Cornstalks at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce downtown office (1301 Harney). Following the usual format of the last Thursday of the month gathering, networking starts at 6:30 p.m. with provided snacks and beverages, and the speaker’s presentation begins at 7:30.

Here’s a bio of this month’s speaker, John Grange, compiled by Cornstalks organizer Tom Chapman:

John Grange is a 26 year-old internet and technology entrepreneur from the Omaha area. He originally attended University of Nebraska-Omaha and has a strong attachment to the school and its students. He was formerly the sales side of PowerDNN and is now with Layered Innovations.*

Power DNN was the top DotNetNuke provider in the country during Grange’s tenure there. DotNetNuke is the leading Web Content Management Platform (or CMS) for Microsoft ASP.NET, powering over 600,000 production websites worldwide. The flexible DotNetNuke open source CMS platform also functions as a web application development framework (from dotnetnuke.com).

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Layered Innovations is John’s most recent startup which is still in stealth mode. However, what I can say is that he has established quality winning relationships with angels and has some keen insights into how to raise money and leverage angel and investor expertise to help his companies. Moreover, with his new company, Mr. Grange is taking a significant amount of his learning from PowerDNN and applying it to a totally new space. In his work, he has proven himself as a tremendous sales person – he was one of the top five users of Microsoft’s products via PowerDNN and a top user of Salesforce.com. If you want to understand how to scale and leverage technology infrastructure, Mr. Grange has shown his ability to do this in multiple occasions and with clear results.

Here’s a look at future Cornstalks events to get on your calendar: (Added at 6:10 p.m.)

• July 28 – A lawyer and accountant will talk about unique startup issues – such as term sheets, formation and intellectual.
• Aug. 4 – Demo night, sponsored by Treetop Ventures will feature eight young Silicon Prairie companies including BATTLE BEARS and LoDo Software. For more information, contact Tom Chapman.
• Aug. 25 – Hudl/Agile Sports founder, John Wirtz, will discuss the continued growth and evolution of his company.

(Future events from omahayoungprofessionals.org)

*Updated Friday, July 1 – Grange is no longer associated with PowerDNN. When published, it was incorrectly stated that he is the sales side of PowerDNN. Grange was fomerly the sales side of PowerDNN.