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The twitterverse replies: What is Big Omaha?
About halfway into my drive to Omaha last Wednesday for Big Omaha, I realized that I was in the car with two fellow Des Moines residents who were, as Big Omaha MC David Hauser affectionately …
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Big Omaha – Travis Kalanick: ‘Whatever it is that you’re afraid of, go after it’
Travis Kalanick is the co-founder and CEO of Uber, a startup working to provide high-quality, on-demand car service booked easily through a user’s iPhone or SMS. His previous company, Red Swoosh, was sold for $19 million in April 2007. Prior companies include Scour, the world’s first p2p search engine, where Kalanick also achieved the distinction…
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VineMe launches, offering photo ‘Timeline for the World’
For almost one year now Josh Fleming, Tony Muse and Chris Taulborg have been hard at work building Des Moines’ newest startup, VineMe. VineMe is billed as a “social platform that allows the world to crowdsource content by time, tags, places and people.”