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Startup Spaces: How Sojern turned a restaurant into an office in 5 months
Not all that long ago, 810 S. 169th Street was home to an upscale restaurant, bar and nightclub called Prestige World Class—not to be confused with Prestige Worldwide—where West Omahans would have nice dinners, buy a top-shelf drink or host a wedding rehearsal …
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Startup Spaces: Looking back at the six featured startups of 2013
Last year we launched Startup Spaces, a monthly series in partnership with turnstone that showcases the unique offices of companies across the Silicon Prairie. Its been a lot of fun to coordinate over the last six months, and we’ve affectionately come to describe this series as “MTV Cribs for the startup crowd.” We asked our…
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Startup Spaces: Engage with MindMixer’s HQ in the Mastercraft
Since day one, Omaha-based startup MindMixer has call the Mastercraft Building, located just north of Omaha’s Old Market district, home. In March 2011, the startup’s team consisted of just its co-founders—Nick Bowden and Nathan Preheim—and the pair was sub-leasing desks from a landscape architecture firm …
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Startup Spaces: Inside Brad Feld’s FiberHouse with Handprint
3D modeling startup Handprint has an untraditional story of how its team came to be located in Kansas City. After co-founder Mike Demarais spent time in Ben Barreth’s Homes for Hackers house, he decided to relocate to the Kansas City Startup Village (KCSV). Then when Handprint won Brad Feld’s KC FiberHouse competition, the rest of…
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Startup Spaces: Take a look at Dwolla’s renovated Des Moines space
For Des Moines-based Dwolla, a renovated downtown office means more space for collaboration and a renewed focus on branding. “Almost everything that can be orange in our office is orange: couches, walls, rugs, shirts, you name it,” Dwolla communications builder intern Lindsay Dressen told Silicon Prairie News …
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Startup Spaces: Explore Bulu Box’s office, housed in a converted condo
For many entrepreneurs and startup teams, non-traditional workspaces have become the norm. And for Lincoln-based startup Bulu Box, a refurbished condo proved the perfect fit for the active, health-focused company. “As a health startup company, an apartment is the perfect space for our culture,” Kate Stous, Bulu Box’s director of brand relations, told Silicon Prairie…
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Startup Spaces: Sneak a peek at PeggyBank’s Omaha offices
In a small office in Omaha Jim Simon founded PeggyBank, a media conversion company that bills itself as saving “JPegs, MPegs and Aunt Pegs.” In 2010 Simon was digging through old photo albums, home movies and audio recordings trying to convert them to digital files. Saving those memories was an uphill battle; each decade brought…
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Startup Spaces: Take a look inside Goodsmiths’ Valley Junction office
It’s fitting for ecommerce startup Goodsmiths to be located in West Des Moines’ Valley Junction. Nestled above a row of brick-and-mortar offices, eateries and boutiques, the “marketplace for makers” is right at home Goodsmiths’ office…