SPN’s most-read stories from last week

1. “Women tech groups blossom in Nebraska, but there’s room to grow” by Katrina Markel (5/14)

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2. “Pushlee launches at 42 Kum & Go locations just in time for EntreFEST” by Megan Bannister (5/13)

3. “Kansas City Startup Village community lures NexusHQ from NYC” by Kate Brosseau (5/13)

4. “Nebraskan with idea for afterlife social site wins Kansas Startup Weekend” by Julia Hogren (5/15)

5. “A year later, UNL’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic has proven its model” by Patti Vannoy (5/12)

Iowa

• Geoff Wood shared his list of “15 people to know in the Iowa startup community.” What do you think? Any additions? — Welch Avenue Daily 
• Bawte was named in a “listicle” of worst startup names. We don’t agree, but they made the “top 10” with Chubbies and Hadoop. — Inc. 
• ClusterFlunk co-founders AJ Nelson and Joe Dallago were the lead photo for a story about companies applying to Y Combinator. — San Jose Mercury News
• A handful of StartupCity Des Moines residents and co-workers spent last Tuesday volunteering with Habitat for Humanity’s Rock the Block program. — Facebook
• The Dwolla team shared 10 small business and entrepreneurship blogs that everyone in the startup community should be reading. — Dwolla Blog
• Last week Bloomsnap was featured by the founder and CEO of LockerGnome, Chris Pirillo. As of Monday morning, the vlog had more than 12,000 views. — YouTube
• Mark your calendar: the dates for the I/OWA conference have officially been announced. Join the Des Moines community for the second annual conference Oct. 16-17. — I/OWA Conf

Kansas City

• Entrepreneurial spirit sags as business startups hit a 30-year low. — Kansas City Star
• Kansas City Startup Village co-founder wants to bring Lean Startup Machine to KC. — StartupKC
• Knoda co-founder Kyle Rogers is on Spare Room Radio. — Spare Room Radio
• Peer-to-peer pressure: Meet the insurgents—Lyft, Uber and Airbnb. — KC Business Journal 

Nebraska 

• Volano Solutions shares their take on Big Omaha lessons. — Volano Solutions
• Straight Shot Managing Director David Arnold shares his thoughts on what he learned at Big Omaha. — Straight Shot
• NerdWallet calls Omaha the third best place to start a business. — NerdWallet
• Omaha home furnishing ecommerce site Haymarket partners with Zillow. — Omaha World-Herald
• A new meetup for Ruby developers is kicking off June 12. — Meetups
• Accelerators with niches are the way to go, OWH editorial board says. — Omaha World-Herald
• Boutique Window launched new features last week. — Boutique Window