Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org, Yael Cohen of FCancer movement and Seth Goldstein of turntable.fm

With less than one month away from our fourth annual Big Omaha, we want to share with you three more amazing entrepreneurs who will make their way to the Silicon Prairie in May!

Help us welcome Charles Best of DonorsChoose.org, Yael Cohen of F Cancer movement and Seth Goldstein of turntable.fm to the Big Omaha 2012 speaker’s slate! These amazingly accomplished individuals have proven themselves leaders in the entrepreneurial world and have already made a major impact in their respective industries.

Here’s more about each, with excerpts from their respective bios (see bigomaha.com):

Charles Best

Charles Best is an entrepreneur and founder of DonorsChoose.org, a nonprofit organization which provides a simple, personal, and accountable way for people to address educational inequity. Donors Choose was recently named one of the “50 Most Innovative Companies” by Fast Company and has several prominent supporters, including comedian Stephen Colbert, a member of the board, and Oprah Winfrey, who named DonorsChoose.org one of her “Favorite Things” in 2010. The site has helped fund over 200,000 projects across the United States thus far and helped public school teachers raise more than $30 million for classroom resources.

Yael Cohen

Yael Cohen is the founder and president of F Cancer, F Cancer, a charity for cancer prevention and early detection, shortly after her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. F Cancer has already raised over $1 million to date and recently won the Mozilla Firefox challenge for social and humanitarian causes with support of actress and spokeswoman Sophia Bush, and Forbes recently mentioned Yael as an “Up and Comer” in its April edition. F Cancer is focused on educating the public about their personal cancer risk factors, as well as the earliest warning signs for many cancers. The charity teaches people how to look for cancer instead of just finding it, because the vast majority of cancers have found to be curable if caught in stage one.

Seth Goldstein

Seth Goldstein is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He currently serves as the chairman of turntable.fm, the social music service which was named the top music startup of 2011 by Billboard Magazine. Seth has worked alongside Fred Wilson as Entrepreneur in Residence at Flatiron Partners and helped to create Pier 38 in San Francisco, a vibrant startup community which gave birth to a number of successful startups. He also started SocialMedia.com, the first company to make advertising social, which was later acquired by LivingSocial. He has a lengthy slate of accomplishments within the entrepreneurial community and we’re thrilled to bring his knowledge, passion and ideas into to Big Omaha.

See our full speaker slate at bigomaha.com

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Thanks to our sponsors!

Another special thank you to our amazing group of sponsors to make this year’s event possible!  We’re fortunate to have many of our previous partners join us again for this year’s event, as well as a dynamic group of new sponsor join this year’s event. 

We ask you to please take a moment to look through the list of this year’s companies involved in Big Omaha 2012, and extend a special thank you when you see them at the event and conduct business with them throughout the year!

Credits: Big Omaha branding and identity by Oxide Design. Speaker photos provided by Charles Best, Yael Cohen and Seth Goldstein, respectively.