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Green Bein’ awarded $50K to help expand business in Lincoln (Video)
Green Bein’ Productions, Inc. won Invest Nebraska’s third annual venture competition last week at the Embassy Suites in Lincoln. Last Tuesday, Green Bein’ and the four other finalists competed for $50,000. The Lincoln-based entrepreneurs were given 15 minutes and then had an opportunity to answer judges’ questions. “All five of them did a really great…
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Owner Darcie Krueger offers a look at SitStay’s Lincoln warehouse
Previously, we profiled Darcie Krueger, owner of SitStay.com, and shared video from an interview with Krueger. Now, we bring you the third installment of our series on Krueger and SitStay, photos from a tour of the company’s Lincoln warehouse. Krueger said that SitStay actually started in her Lincoln home but it grew to be too…
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Two More Events: Lincoln YPG Event & StartupBus Stop in KC
When putting together yesterday’s event post, I overlooked two quality events taking place this week, one in Lincoln tonight and one in Kansas City tomorrow. Tonight there’s a presentation by entrepreneur John Moorhead of Free Air Collective, and tomorrow there’s a meet-and-great with the StartupBus team traveling from Chicago to Austin, Texas for South by…
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Lincoln Venture Competition – $25k up for grabs, deadline March 7th
Invest Nebraska, in partnership with the Lincoln Partnership for Economic Development and the University…
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TechBrew Iowa City, Ignite Lincoln, PechaKucha Omaha & more
There’s a solid lineup of events this week all across the Silicon Prairie, from Lincoln, down to Kansas City, and back up to Omaha. Check out the listings below and learn more about each by clicking on the provided link. To see events beyond this week, pay a visit to our events page, siliconprairienews.com/events. If…
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Venture capital fund Nebraska Global opens in Lincoln
Earlier this month, we were excited to add our first Silicon Prairie News contributor in our state’s capitol city, Lincoln, Nebraska (see our post: “Welcome our new writers”). Our new writer, Kate Ellingson, won’t begin contributing until early next year, and thanks to a website launch today, we already have a major item of news…
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Startup Events: Omaha, Lincoln & Des Moines
There’s quite the selection of startup events this week in Omaha, Lincoln, and Des Moines. If you’re interested in entrepreneurship and startups, I hope you’re able to make it out to at least one. Thursday, July 8, 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. – Lincoln Startup Drinks, Coffee Edition: The Cup. We’re going to try a…
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AIM Institute’s Lincoln office hosting open house Thursday, May 20
In early April, I spoke with my colleague Rod Armstrong, vice president for strategic partnerships at the AIM Institute, about the amount and depth of activity AIM is involved with in Lincoln and western Nebraska. This Thursday evening from 4-6 p.m., AIM’s new Lincoln office will be hosting an open house for folks to stop…
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Johnny Cupcakes, Ignite Lincoln, Cornstalks, Coding Dojo and more
There’s quite the variety of events headed our way in and around Omaha and Des Moines. We’ve included one, in particular, that is a bit outside of our regular entrepreneurial and creative event postings, but we’ve heard it’s a very cool exhibit –BODIES…The Exhibition. Hope you can get out, enjoy the nice weather, and the…
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First Startup Drinks Lincoln in the bag, second one on the calendar
The first Startup Drinks Lincoln was a resounding success! I arrived at Dino’s at 6:45 p.m. to find that some people were already there. I guess they were anxious. Not long after that people started trickling in at a steady pace and they just naturally did exactly what I hoped they would do, which was…