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Night Life Transit wins $8,500 at Get Started Omaha
Night Life Transit, an Omaha-based startup that provides bus service for urban night life hotspots, won $8,500 last night at Get Started Omaha, an event put on by COX Business at the Holland Performing Arts Center. The startup, founded by Eric Burns, plans to begin service June 5th in the Omaha area. Burns is currently…
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ABPathfinder wins Microsoft Health Innovation Award
ABPathfinder, Inc., developer of a software tool for autism therapy, has won the Microsoft Health Innovation Award for its work enhancing patient care through analytics. Founded in 2010 in Overland Park, Kansas, ABPathfinder develops cloud-based software to improve patient outcomes in autism therapy. “Therapy centers and schools are using our software as a time- and…
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Timothy Kephart, Graffiti Tracker: “I hated my company.”
SPN: The last time we did a story on you and Graffiti Tracker was in 2010. What have you been up to for the past 5 years? TK: I’ve spent the better part of the past five years traveling. I spend my winters in the Dominican Republic and usually summer in Europe. I’m researching graffiti…
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Athlete Network wants to revolutionize how you hire employees
Although described as “LinkedIn for athletes,” Midwest startup Athlete Network actually serves two purposes: allowing athletes to expand both their athletic and professional connections. “Our network is for athletes pushing themselves to get better. Whether looking for somebody to train with, or [to] find a company that’s going to embrace your competitive spirit, that’s what…
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Kickstarter Staff Pick: Wichita-based Filimin
“I wanted to give us a way to express that we love each other in a simple, unobtrusive way, a way that is totally separated from the computer, cell phone, and that hectic communication, something that is part of the warmth of your ambient environment.”
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Why travel startup Travefy didn’t pivot (and probably never will)
Lincoln-based Travefy started in 2012 as a travel planning product marketed directly to users. They later figured out their biggest potential customers could be large travel companies. Response? They didn’t change a thing.
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Going Agile with Agilx co-founders Dustin Clonch and Jake McElroy
“We’re not looking for an exit. There’s so much focus on exit in the ecosystem, but that’s not us. We wanted to create a lifestyle company that we’ll work at the rest of our lives, possibly our kids as well.”
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What VoterSnap learned its first year
In January 2014, Patrick John Stevens made a New Year’s resolution to make his app idea VoterSnap a reality. Two days later he lost his job.
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Download Powderhook’s Gobble Map app now
“We knew a couple things would make the Gobble Map a unique challenge,” said Heath Roehr, Powderhook co-founder and VP of Engineering. “We need to be able to accept potentially tens of thousands of reports coming in at the same time. We need to process and aggregate that data and display it on a map…
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Pirate Radio! A QA with Wayne and Laurie Brekke
I did an entire interview with Billy Ray Cyrus unrecorded. And I had to call him back and pretend that I had more questions, and then do a recorded interview so that I had something for the podcast.