David Hauser spoke at Big Omaha 2010 and will serve as MC this year. Photo by Malone & Company Photography.
Haven’t had time to do your homework on all of this year’s Big Omaha speakers? Not to worry; we can help you cram. We’ve combed the world wide interwebs to come up with a couple of stories, interviews, videos or otherwise noteworthy nuggets on each of our Big Omaha presenters so that you can brush up before you sit down at KANEKO on Thursday morning.
David Hauser (MC), Founder of Grasshopper
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- From Silicon Prairie News: “Q&A with David Hauser, organizer of National Entrepreneurs’ Day,” on Hauser’s work to make Nov. 19 a day to recognize entrepreneurs
- From The Business Beware Show: “Out of the box office spaces,” on Grasshopper’s Boston headquarters
Ben Huh, Founder and CEO of Cheezburger Network
- From the Harvard Business Review blog: “The Business of Humor” (Video), on how Huh’s crowd-sourced sites stay agile and funny
- From Know Your Meme: “KYM: We Can Haz Cheezburgers,” on the Cheezburger Network’s March purchase of Know Your Meme
Leila Janah, Founder and CEO of Samasource
- From TechCrunch: “Of Reggae Roads and Blood Diamonds: The Dawn of Tech in Liberia and Sierra Leone,” on Janah’s April trip through Liberia and Sierra Leone
- From crowdsourcing.org: “Samasource: Tapping the Private Crowd,” on Samasource’s model, examined in the context of crowdsourcing with “public” vs. “private” crowds
Aneesh Chopra, United States CTO
- From the White House’s Open Government Initiative Blog: “Access to Capital: Fueling Buiness Growth and Job Creation,” on Chopra’s experience at the Access to Capital Conference and his takeaways from a dialogue on how to best cultivate investment and growth
- From Xconomy Seattle: “Aneesh Chopra, Obama’s Chief Techie, on Building a Startup-Friendly Region and Why Now is the Best Time to be an Innovator in American,” on the opportunities for innovation in healthcare, education and energy
Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown
- From danmartell.com: “5 Big Lessons Skateboarding Taught Me About Business,” on how a teenage hobby taught Martell lessons on risk, focus and measuring progress that he applies in business today
- From The Next Web: “4 easy tools to keep up your 24-hour Twitter feed,” on four Twitter automation tools, including the Flowtown product Timely
Erich Broksas, Startup America Partnership
- From the Startup America Partnership blog: “An Important Next Step for Startup America: $400 Million in Commitments and Resources from Google, LinkedIn, Microsoft, HP, Intuit and Others,” on the April announcement of a huge wave of funding for Broksas’ organization
- From ThomasNet News: “Will You be America’s Next Top Energy Innovator?” on a new competition, backed by the Startup America Partnership, for recognizing entrepreneurs at the cutting edge of clean technology
Shervin Pishevar, Former Chairman of Social Gaming Network
- From TechCrunch: “Milk Completes $1.5 Million Angel Round, Packed With Valley Names,” on Pishevar joining several other angel investors — including Big Omaha speakers Philip Kaplan and Gary Vaynerchuk — in funding Kevin Rose’s most recent startup, Milk, a mobile development lab
- From New York Times DealBook: “A Myspace Founder Builds Again, Buying Game Companies,” on the purchase of Pishevar’s Social Gaming Network by MindJolt
Sarah Lacy, Senior Editor at TechCrunch
- From sarahlacy.com: “So That’s What 10,000 People Looks Like,” on Lacy’s trip earlier this month to Nigeria, where she delivered a keynote at an event called the Platform
- From TechCrunch: ” ‘I Love The Petting Zoo Guy’: The Curious Characters Sarah Lacy Met While Writing Her New Book” (Video), on the highlights of “Brilliant, Crazy, Cocky: How the Top 1% of Entrepreneurs Profit from Global Chaos,” the book Lacy released in February
