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Gentry Underwood closes Big Omaha with the story of Mailbox
Gentry Underwood is trying to redefine the way smartphone users interact with their email. “We want to build the best email experience in the world for as many people as we can,” he said. Since the Mailbox founder spoke at Thinc Iowa last October, he says the last seven months have been “an absolute whirlwind.”…
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What’s your favorite Style Your Startup Tee submission?
In celebration of our high fashion Big Omaha 2013 brand, we invited attendees to style a startup tee for a chance to win a ticket to next year’s event. From here, it’s up to you. Below are our eight finalists, which ever one get the most collective social media likes by midnight will win the…
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Noah Kagan pushes entrepreneurs to focus on self-improvement
Noah Kagan calls 2012 his “year of failure,” and came to Big Omaha with tips for entrepreneurs who may be a little burned out. His advice? Don’t focus on the money, or even the business. Focus on you. For Kagan, there are three things that control his happiness: wealth, health and love. Wealth “I am…
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McClure’s point that “everything sucks” gets lost in everything else
Dave McClure started his Big Omaha talk warning it would offend some people. He was right. His focus was on the idea that “everything sucks and nobody notices,” but it ended up lost amid potentially offensive exchanges and an abundance of cursing, which quickly sparked a conversation on Twitter. Beyond that, he told the crowd…
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On quest to redefine business, Cindy Gallop addresses attitudes on sex
As the founder of If We Ran the World and Make Love Not Porn, Cindy Gallop is taking steps to tackle the absence of honest conversation in society about sex. At Big Omaha this afternoon, she described the business model of Make Love Not Porn as shared values combined with shared action to create shared…
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The story behind the Big Omaha standing ovation
By now, Big Omaha attendees have been in and out of their seat several dozen times, and some may be wondering: what gives with giving each speaker a standing ovation before they begin? Credit David Hauser of Grasshopper, who started the tradition when he spoke at the second Big Omaha in 2010. “I remember sitting…
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Kauffman’s Kander tells founders to let their startup baby grow
These days, Diana Kander has babies on the brain. And quite understandably so—the senior fellow at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is six months pregnant. So naturally when she took the stage at Big Omaha on Friday morning, Kander spoke about how “toddlers and startups actually have an amazing amount of things in common.” Both…
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Marc Ecko deciphers The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Ten Crack Commandments”
After he set the scene onstage with an armchair and a stiff drink, Marc Eckō this morning shared the ten rules of business he uncovered in The Notorious B.I.G.’s song, “Ten Crack Commandments”. Never let no one know how much dough you hold. “In life, we use metrics,” Eckō said. “We will count everything. Quit…
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Antonio Neves wants you to ask yourself, “Who makes you better?”
Every year since he was in sixth grade, Antonio Neves has received a nutcracker for Christmas from his mom—a reminder of the moment in his young life where he turned a corner. At Big Omaha today, he stepped away from his emcee duties to share why he has devoted so much of his time to…
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Watch the Big Omaha live stream
Weren’t able to make it to KANEKO today for our fifth annual Big Omaha? Don’t worry. We’re providing a free live stream starting at 9:00 a.m., thanks to our sponsor Hayneedle. Here’s today’s schedule …