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CompanyCam solves contractors’ problems with project management app
Luke Hansen, founder and CEO of CompanyCam, didn’t set out to create a startup. He just wanted to find an application that would help his family’s roofing business. “I built this as a solution for a problem we were having at White Castle Roofing,” said Hansen. “I had searched on and off for months, trying to find…
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Zinnia makes buying flowers online easy and affordable
“We want to be the Chipotle of the flower-buying industry,” said Nathan Bliss, Co-founder of Zinnia. Bliss explained that people usually buy flowers one of two ways in places like Omaha. There are relatively low-quality grocery store flowers (the Taco Bell of flowers) and there are overpriced online retailers (the Kobe Steakhouse of flowers). “We want to be somewhere in the middle.…
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9 questions with Assortify’s Marcus Goedeker
Assortify is an ecommerce platform’s dream merchandiser. The algorithm, developed by Marcus Goedeker, Jacob Messerly and Jeremy Vlcan (all Hayneedle veterans), measures the effectiveness of a retailer’s product assortment by comparing it to their competitors and analyzing trends in the online marketplace. Assortify can then identify opportunities for new product assortment as well as provide…
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With COMP’D, you can subscribe to unlimited concerts
Every great rock ’n’ roll story starts with a man living in his parents’ basement. For Dustin Trauernicht, the founder of the online platform COMP’D, his journey into the music industry began selling t-shirts out of his parents basement for a music blog based in Nashville, Tennessee. “I started out marketing for a t-shirt company,…
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Why sports app Spectator decided to pivot
Two weeks after arriving at the NMotion Accelerator in Lincoln, Nebraska, Jon Myers of Spectator realized that in order to survive, his company would have to reimagine what it was. “We didn’t have a real buyer. Everybody loved the service, they loved what it could do, but nobody was willing to pay for it,” Myers said of their original sports app…
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Bugeater Foods sprints to Demo Day
Bugeater Foods, in the NMotion accelerator program in Lincoln, Nebraska, came into existence less than 9 months ago, with the idea of cricket- (yes, the insect) based health supplement products, and they have been sprinting ever since. You can already find their product on the shelves of the local HyVee and in the latest Bulu Box…
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Repair chain Gophermods expands into Des Moines and Omaha
Founder Casey Profita wired up his first Gophermods outlet while attending the University of Minnesota, and immersing his team in the college’s University Technology Enterprise Center (UTEC) program. Profita’s going-on-six-year-old consumer electronics repair company is now expanding from a regional perspective while the entrepreneur considers its potential as a national brand. “The economic downturn…
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Rodeo Analytics wants to shake up barrel racing
Technology and sports fit together like a hand in a well oiled baseball mit. From athlete wearables to instant replay, new technology has revolutionized the way sports like football, baseball and basketball are played and watched. When we asked Alex Adams of Rodeo Analytics if there was a place for technology in rodeo, the answer…
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Fanstreamm helps minor league teams know their customers—and sell more tickets
This time last year, Fanstreamm won Startup Weekend Cedar Rapids and was about three weeks into Lincoln’s NMotion startup accelerator – with a different name and a different concept. It’s been “a whirlwind of a year,” said founder Jason Kristufek. Back then, Turnstile Cards was a mobile marketing platform based on the initial assumption that country’s…
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Recurrency operates in San Francisco and Wichita. Here’s why that’s an advantage.
With teams on the West Coast and the Great Plains, Recurrency has found the freedom to hire for the best talent, regardless of geography. Recurrency is a recurring crowdfunding site for creative people looking to support other creatives. Supporters are given access to exclusive content including behind-the-scenes sneak peeks of albums, films, records, and other…
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