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  • A special thanks to the Kauffman Foundation

    We would like to share our gratitude to the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for their support of this year’s Big Omaha event. We’ve had the opportunity to work with Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship, and others at the foundation for some time.

  • Sunday Video: Marc Andreessen’s three criteria for startup success

    In my search for this Sunday’s video, I found a rare presentation that Marc Andreessen, former serial entrepreneur now of the venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, gave at Stanford University a few weeks ago. I have followed Marc for some time as he provides a precise understanding of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, both from an entrepreneur,…

  • Five in Five with Joshua Best from JoshuaBest.net

    1. What is the name, subject and URL of your blog? Joshua Best, The subject is my thoughts, JoshuaBest.net 2. Why do you blog? I blog mainly for self exploration and self discovery. Part of that, is that blogging causes me to think deeper on topics, take the time to consider my feelings on it,…

  • Sunday Video: Tim Jahn of Beyond the Pedway interviews David Hauser

    For the past two weeks, Tim Jahn, creator of the Chicago-based weekly video podcast Beyond the Pedway, has been posting his interviews with some of the Big Omaha 2010 speakers. Last Friday, he released his interview with Dennis Crowley of foursquare and this past Friday, David Hauser of Grasshopper. Although they’re labeled “Special Edition Big…

  • Big Omaha: An attendee’s ‘personal diary’ of the event

    Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy’s producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she’s given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie…

  • From the Founders: The Big Omaha energy carries on

    As we sit here just over a week since we kicked off Big Omaha 2010, we’re still unbelievably amazed by what took place in our community over the course of two and a half days. A new level of excitement and passion was born at this year’s event. People left changed, and for that we’re…

  • Sunday Video: Ron Conway talks about investing in Twitter ecosystem

    In scouring ideas for this week’s Sunday Video Series, I came across one from Robert Scoble who was just in town last week for Big Omaha 2010. I wanted to share a brief interview he did with an investor from Silicon Valley, Ron Conway at the Twitter Chirp conference a month ago. Conway is someone…

  • Get to know our Big Omaha sponsors. They rock.

    Big Omaha year two is about to go down. Big Omaha year one was a success. How did all this come to be? When the short story is told, it starts in the summer of 2008 when Jeff Slobotski challenged himself and Silicon Prairie News co-founder Dusty Davidson to set a date, find a venue…

  • Big Omaha 2010: The Big Schedule

    Attending or not attending Big Omaha 2010, we hope you’ll join us for either our Thursday or Friday night party. In addition, the Social Media Club of Omaha is hosting a Tweetup prior to Thursday’s opening party, bringing the total to three open to the public events this year. Here’s the run down with links…

  • Sunday Video Series: Big Omaha 2009: The Impromptu Panel

    With Big Omaha 2010 just around the corner, it’s time we release a Big Omaha 2009 video for our Sunday Video Series, and the one I’ve chosen is the most unique of them all. When Matt Mullenweg had to cancel at last minute, we had a 30-minute time slot open up. In response, Jeffrey Kalmikoff,…