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Out and about by The Bay: A photo recap of SPN’s visit to San Francisco
Last week, I spent a few days in San Francisco along with Dusty Reynolds, the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s director of innovation and entrepreneurship. We encountered plenty of people familiar with the work of Silicon Prairie News. We met others who had heard of SPN or our events, Big Omaha and Thinc Iowa, but…
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Four founders riff on fun, failure and asking the right questions (Video)
If you’ve been following our Big Omaha 2012 Video Series, you’ve seen the solo performances given by Yael Cohen of F Cancer, Ben Lerer of Thrillist, Jim McKelvey of Square and Philip Rosedale of Coffee & Power on May 10 at Big Omaha 2012. Now, we bring you an encore performance featuring that entire quartet.…
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Ben Lerer relishes the daily work to build Thrillist Media Group (Video)
Ben Lerer once had his sights set on the grand finale, the part in which he thought his company would receive enough money to “crash planes into boats, or other awesome stuff like that.” But over time, he learned that what’s more important than the destination is the daily work, the entrepreneurial journey on the…
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Ben Lerer: ‘It isn’t about the light at the end … it’s about the tunnel’
Ben Lerer of Thrillist was the second speaker to take the stage at The KANEKO for Big Omaha 2012. Lerer is the co-founder of Thrillist, a digital media company; of JackThreads, a members only fashion site for men; and of Lerer Ventures, a venture capital firm that he started with his father. Lerer used his…
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Get to know the Big Omaha 2012 Thursday speakers
Already pick out your clothes in anticipation of Big Omaha? Now, it’s time for you to do your homework on the speaker lineup. Lucky for you, we’ve done the hard part and put together a series of links on the latest news and videos of each of the speakers in hopes of building your enthusiasm…