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6 questions with Borrow For Your Bump co-founder Krystal Stubbendeck
Borrow For Your Bump (BFYB) is an e-retail startup based in Omaha that rents out maternity clothing to expecting mothers. SPN caught up with Co-founder Krystal Stubbendeck over the phone. SPN: When we last spoke, you were planning on opening a store, starting Bump Love Club and possibly adding trimester boxes to your site. Can you update our readers…
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EarMashin connects you to friends, concerts and tickets in real time
EarMashin moved from Los Angeles to Iowa City to reinvent their new music discovery platform. “[Moving] wasn’t actually that big of a challenge for us,” says Ash Naguib, one of Earmashin’s founders. “We met a lot of great people here, and we actually found out that there’s a pretty big music community [in Iowa], so it’s been helpful.”…
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Proxibid CTO: “The technology talent pool is tight”
Online marketplace Proxibid has experienced another year of high growth, beginning with a partnership with eBay announced in February. Revenue increased by 11% in Q2, driven by the heavy machinery and collectible car markets. In August Proxibid also received significant growth capital investment from Primus Capital, and the company is currently in hiring mode to keep up with its reach. Greg…
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Home Scene Pro wants to create more job opportunities for students and grads
After watching his post-graduate friends struggle to find jobs, Jurell became terrified to enter his senior of college in New York. “Everyone left ready to attack the job market, but a few years later those same friends didn’t have jobs, let alone jobs in their field. With graduation right around the corner, it was the…
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InjuReplay announces partnership with Hudl
Lincoln-based sports health startup InjuReplay has announced a new partnership with Hudl. Hudl will be offering InjuReplay videos through its recently launched Performance Center, which provides video content to millions of coaches athletes across the globe. “Not only does InjuReplay do a great job of turning technical sports injury details into bite-sized, highly informative video pieces, they…
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MachineryLink Sharing brings the sharing economy to the farm
The sharing economy is disrupting many industries. Agriculture is no exception. Today Kansas City-based FarmLink officially launched MachineryLink Sharing, the agriculture industry’s first Internet-based equipment sharing program. The platform has been in a beta-test, soft launch of sorts as of the last few months, according to Jeff Dema, president of grower services at FarmLink, receiving critical feedback…
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Statim’s Jennifer Amis on the future of telehealth and her Pipeline experience
Jennifer Amis is the founder of Statim, an Omaha-based telehealth service provider that provides remote patient monitoring over the Internet, with a particular focus on serving rural communities in western Nebraska. Amis is currently a 2015 Pipeline fellow. SPN caught up with Amis over the phone. SPN: Telehealth is really hot right now, and there’s a lot of…
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Swineguard protects piglets from being crushed to death
Matt Rooda was working as an assistant farm manager at Schneider Pork Farms in Waterloo, Iowa, when he realized that in order to increase pork production, he needed to stop piglet deaths. “I walked in one day, and there was a mom that laid on nine of her babies,” Rooda said. “I was super frustrated,…
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Can 3D printing save the world’s oceans? Tethon 3D hopes to find out
Nebraska’s Tethon 3D and a Massachusetts oyster farmer are testing ceramic platforms that can reboot oyster populations in Cape Cod. The partnership began when Patrick Woodbury, founder of the Woodbury Shellfish Company in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, found Karen Linder from Omaha-based Tethon 3D online. Out of that conversation, Tethon 3D agreed to fabricate Woodbury’s design. The two companies hope that…
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D3 Banking’s Mike Carter on millennials and the future of banking
Mike Carter is Chief Marketing Officer of D3 Banking, a digital banking startup based in Omaha. He recently spoke at the FinovateFall conference in New York. He will be presenting on millennials and banking at the Digital Economy Conference on October 2nd. SPN caught up with Carter by phone. SPN: How was New York? It…
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