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Big Omaha Behind the Scenes: Event Details – Part I
(Photo by Malone & Company) Earlier this month, Danny and I spent a few days in Kansas City at the Startup Organizers Summer. There, we had the privilege of presenting to the group about our experience producing Big Omaha. For this talk, we chose to highlight some of the little things about Big Omaha that…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the fourth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our first presenter from the event’s second day, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of foursquare. Crowley and the foursquare team are continuing to make major waves in the industry and the crowd was excited…
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Prairie Moves: Jay Hannah, Dwolla & Evan Williams
(Photo by Jon Smith ‘Una Nos Lucror’) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie…
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Have an idea? Three rules of thumb from attorney Eric Koester
At the Startup Organizers Summit on October 2nd, Startup Weekend Board of Advisors member Eric Koester gave a presentation to address legal concerns that may arise during the event. From one of the first questions often asked, “Is my idea patentable?” to the one of the final questions, “How should we distribute equity?” Koester provided…
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Sunday Video: Nigel Marsh on work-life balance at TEDxSydney
Next Saturday is TEDxOmaha, so I thought it would be fitting this week to feature a video from another TEDx event. This talk is from TEDxSydney, and it’s of Nigel Marsh talking about work-life balance: The reality of the society that we’re in, is that there are thousands and thousands of people out there, leading…
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Weekly Startup Links: Seth Levine, Both Sides of the Table, and more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.
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Prairie Moves: TAI, Kid Command, Lava Row & more
(Photo by Lauren Tucker via Flickr.) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves…
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Sunday Video: Viktor Frankl on why to believe in others
As many do, I turn to TED.com for inspirational and thought-provoking presentation. Lately, I’ve found one of the coolest sections of their site to be their “Best of the Web” videos, which are presentations not given at a TED conference but match the caliber of a TED presentation. The following video is a portion of…
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Weekly Startup Links: TechCrunch, AngelGate, and more
Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany.
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Big Omaha Video Series: David Hauser of Grasshopper
Today, we’re releasing the third presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our second presenter, David Hauser, co-founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs. Hauser gave attendees a look into how he and his team have built Grasshopper into what it is today. Giving the backstory and implementation of their…