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What Cheer trio joins Bay Area startup Pack
What Cheer, an Omaha-based web application design and development shop, announced today it has joined Pack, a Los Gatos, Calif.-based startup building an online platform for dog lovers. “Working on our own projects has always been something that we’ve wanted to do,” What Cheer founder John Henry Müller, who started the company six years ago,…
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You’ll like this: I live in Omaha creators launch I love in Omaha site
It’s only a one-letter change from a popular grassroots campaign, but it’s a whole new feeling. The team at What Cheer, the Omaha website design and development studio behind the I live in Omaha campaign, today launched I love in Omaha. The site, which What Cheer’s John Henry Müller calls the “I live in Omaha…
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Bee’s knees! What Cheer’s Bumble wins Twilio contest
On Tuesday, Twilio released the winners of its Twilio Client Developer Contest, and What Cheer’s Bumble took home one of the five winning titles. Bumble …
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What Cheer abuzz with Bumble, a home phone app for children
On Sunday, What Cheer launched its first product, Bumble, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) app designed for children to make safe and easy calls. Alex Gates, a developer at the web design studio, had been working on a way for his young children to make calls to their grandparents using a simple web interface,…
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Four artists to exhibit at Big Omaha 2011
One of my favorite parts of Big Omaha takes place not in the main speaking room at KANEKO but in rooms and hallways that lead up to it, which have played host to art installations and exhibits since our first conference in 2009. These artists, who have dedicated tens and hundreds of hours ahead of…
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Prairie Moves: Carl Zulauf, Alex Gates, Megan Hunt & more
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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 post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…
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Dialing up Call Spinner: Startup Weekend team stays on the line
Call Spinner, a phone number that when called pairs you up with another random caller, launched nearly two weeks ago at the second Startup Weekend Omaha, September 10-12. Not only did the team of four take away the competition’s top prize of $300, but they kept and have continued to work on their service.
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Call Spinner wins Startup Weekend Omaha (team demo videos)
Congrats to Call Spinner for taking home top honors at Startup Weekend Omaha, a 54-hour event challenging attendees to present ideas, form teams, plan, implement, and then finally present their just-born startup to a panel of judges. Second place was awarded to Everpresent, a web and smartphone app that prompts you to record important moments…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Video of winner’s presentation
Sunday night, after a long weekend of pitching, hacking, designing and loitering at What Cheer, GiftBright.com was selected as the winner of the first Startup Weekend Omaha…
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Creative Capital Pitch Session finalists & details!
We received soooo many good ideas and submissions for InvestNebraska’s first pitch session! So many, that it made it very difficult to narrow them down. In alphabetical-by-first-name order, here are the 10 finalists! Each of the finalists will have the opportunity to present for 5 minutes this coming Thursday at Nomad Lounge! Malorie Maddox from…