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Coworking space Innovation Cafe to move downtown April 1
Innovation Cafe will take its coworking office space and existing members downtown April 1 to 111 W. 10th Street after about two years in the Crossroads. The 13,000 square feet of usable space is a large step up from the previous location’s 5,500 square feet, which is the biggest reason behind the move, Innovation Cafe…
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CandyCam’s robotics confection puts controls in videographers’ hands
If you’ve ever watched a football game on TV, you may have noticed the over-the-field shots—the ones that look as if the camera is flying above the play. Those angles aren’t coming from the sidelines or stands. To get those shots, the camera has been suspended in air by Kevlar wire. Now, imagine putting that…
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“Silicon Prairie” film available today; Dwolla to host screening at 6 p.m.
“Silicon Prairie: America’s New Internet Economy,” a short documentary that stresses the importance of the Open Internet by telling the stories of startups in the middle of America, is now available on the film’s website. “Pay what you want, from $0 up,” the site states, encouraging donations to the film that began as crowd-funded project.…
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Creighton, Kansas Instagrammers are “March Madness Must-Follows”
This isn’t startup news, but since this week marks the start of March Madness, why not a post about two of the region’s best college basketball players on social media? Mashable on Monday named Creighton University’s Doug McDermott and University of Kansas’ Ben McLemore to its “10 March Madness Stars to Follow on Instagram.” “We’ve…
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Brad Feld to kick off Nebraska entrepreneurship event April 12
The Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship returns to the Omaha metro April 12 with a new name, brand and speaker lineup. The conference is now called Intersect and in addition to its local slate of speakers, the organizers are also bringing in three presenters from outside of the region. Venture capitalist, author and TechStars co-founder Brad…
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CNN@SXSW captures Silicon Prairie, Kansas Sen. Moran in Austin (Video)
CNN last Saturday premiered its roundup of more than a week’s worth of coverage of this year’s South by Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. “The annual SXSW festival is where the tools developed in Silicon Valley and elsewhere are turned into the culture of today,” said CNN producer Josh Rubin, the host of the 30-minute…
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Stackify wants to help companies remember to renew domains, SSLs
When Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform went down in late February because of an expired SSL certificate, Kansas City, Mo. startup Stackify jumped at the opportunity to create a free solution for everyone, including itself. Stackify, which uses Azure, learned of the platform’s crash on a Friday and later that day …
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RecBob scores one of 10 spots in first Nike+ Accelerator in Portland
Over the next three months, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, startup RecBob hopes to pick up its game. The team behind a recreational sports management app is one of 10 companies chosen to participate in the inaugural Nike+ Accelerator that kicked off today in Portland, RecBob founder John Schnipkoweit said Sunday. “They are giving the 10 companies…
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“I live in Omaha” creator John Henry Müller to move to California
In two weeks, What Cheer’s John Henry Müller, the Omaha designer behind the grassroots campaign “I live in Omaha,” will jump in a moving truck with his family and head west to San Francisco. After living in the Midwest their entire lives, Müller said today on his website that it’s now time for he and…
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Kansas City-born Divshot closes $1.1m seed round, lays roots in LA
Divshot, a team that came together at Startup Weekend Kansas City last April, isn’t slowing down. After building a prototype in its first 48 hours of existence, three months later it went on to win a Los Angeles pitch competition in July. The next month, it entered San Monica startup accelerator Launchpad LA. Today, less…