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Nebraska Global adds third company, Lincoln-based EC3H, to fold
Lincoln-based venture capital fund Nebraska Global earlier this month announced it has closed its third investment by adding Estate Creditor Claims Clearing House (EC3H) to its partner company portfolio. EC3H, also based in Lincoln …
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Musicpage seeks to simplify ‘business’ of music business
If David Codr’s forthcoming release is a hit, doing business in the music industry could soon be considerably simpler. Codr, from Omaha, is the founder of Musicpage, an online music “community,” that goes live tonight at 8 and aims to reduce the legwork necessary for processes across the music industry. “Basically, the foundation or the…
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Big Omaha alumni Andrzejewski, Hauser make Inc. list of 30 Under 30
Chalk it up to the Big Omaha bump. OK, no, don’t chalk it up to that at all. That Foodspotting’s Alexa Andrzejewski and Grasshopper’s David Hauser made this year’s Inc. list of 30 Under 30 has everything to do with Andrezejewski and Hauser’s hard work and execution on big ideas, not their work on stage…
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With the Smart Station, GiqueGEAR has your smartphone covered
It’s clear in the way he addresses the subject of smartphones that GiqueGEAR co-founder Todd Arendt has a tendency to, well, geek out about the devices. But for all his excitement over smartphones, Arendt …
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How Silicon Prairie cities stack up in Business Journals rankings
The Business Journals have recently published results from a handful of noteworthy On Numbers surveys, providing a quantitative measure of how the cities of the Silicon Prairie stack up against other cities across the country in a few categories of interest. But, before we get down to the numbers, I’ll make a disclaimer: I haven’t…
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Brace yourself: SPN2K is here
Reader, beware: you may be all alone. As you peruse this post, the Silicon Prairie News team is holed up in our basement conference room, armed with an electric generator and enough non-perishable food and Diet Mountain Dew to help us survive at least one year. Scores of others across the Silicon Prairie are all…
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Summer at home proving valuable for SelectOut founder Pappas
Midway through a phone call last week, Calvin Pappas made an admission about the sometimes disorienting nature of running a startup. “If it weren’t for your email, I probably wouldn’t know that today was actually Thursday,” said Pappas, a 20-year-old University of Nebraska student and the founder of SelectOut. (For an introduction to Pappas and…
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Nebraska Global’s Doug Durham offers inside look at ICORA launch
From the outset, Nebraska Global has touted the potential that exists where “nerds and money” intersect. But to folks outside the Lincoln-based venture fund’s Haymarket office, what Nebraska Global has represented since its launch in late 2010 has been mostly that — potential. Well, the tangible realization of that potential is under way, marked most…
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VolunteerLocal streamlines process for organizers and ‘happy volunteers’
VolunteerLocal has a clear message for event organizers seeking a better way to orchestrate volunteer forces: if you want your volunteer process to excel, scrap the old spreadsheet. “We know we’ve fixed the problem, and I think a lot of our big task is educating the market that there’s tools like this available,” said Brian…