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  • What Cheer works to make Big Omaha 2012 more interconnected

    Throughout Big Omaha 2012, mentions of “interconnectedness” have been hard to miss. Interconnectedness is a major theme for Big Omaha 2012, and one local company with some Big Omaha history is helping spread that theme. What Cheer, an Omaha-based web strategy and design company, is back with …

  • Watch Day 2 of the Big Omaha live stream

    Badges? You don’t need no stinkin’ badges. You don’t have to be a Big Omaha 2012 badge-holder to take in every talk from the second day of our conference. All you need for that is our live stream. As we announced earlier this week, we’re streaming every talk of Big Omaha this year. The live…

  • Welcome the Wufoo co-founder to Big Omaha, a late lineup addition

    As we begin Big Omaha day two, we’re excited to announce the late addition of Kevin Hale, co-founder of the online form builder Wufoo, a Y Combinator seeded startup acquired by SurveyMonkey in 2011. When Wufoo launched, it aimed to beat out the existing form builders with an exceptional user experience, something it ultimately succeeded…

  • Speakers put on the spot for Q&A to close Big Omaha’s opening day

    At the end of a day during which the audience repeatedly rose to greet speakers with standing ovations, those speakers were the ones on their feet — or thinking on them, anyway. The opening day of Big Omaha 2012 concluded with four speakers being put on the spot during a question-and-answer session this afternoon. The…

  • Philip Rosedale: ‘Work together and help each other.’

    Philip Rosedale, the founder of Coffee and Power, referred to humans as herd animals and reminded listeners that we all have a desire to feel safe, then turned around and asked the audience to consider whether companies need CEOs at all. The founder of Second Life wove the final speech of Day 1 of Big…

  • Yael Cohen: ‘We are the generation that can change the world’

    Yael Cohen is on a mission to F— Cancer, and based on this afternoon’s talk at KANEKO during the first day of Big Omaha 2012, she’ll be tough to stop. Cohen is the founder and president of F— Cancer, a movement that is working to make a real impact in the fight against cancer. F—…

  • Seth Goldstein: 10 tweets for startups

    Seth Goldstein, investor, serial entrepreneur and chairman of Turntable.fm, prefers to tweet his advice. He gave the crowd at KANEKO his top 10 tips for entrepreneurs in under 140 characters — plus this more lengthy challenge to create something different. “I think your ideas should be strange and weird and nonsensical,” Goldstein said. “If everyone…

  • Jim McKelvey: ‘Just go ahead and build it’

    Jim McKelvey, the co-founder of Square, is someone who can definitely sport the title of a serial entrepreneur. After starting seven companies — five of which he still owns — over the past 20 years, McKelvey has the insight to inspire entrepreneurs to strive for more than mediocre. As the last speaker of the morning…

  • Join the Big Omaha conversation on DiscussCreativity.com

    Our Big Omaha venue partner, KANEKO, is not only providing a physical space for attendees to gather this year, but an online space, as well. Found at DiscussCreativity.com – a site available to non-Big Omaha attendees, too – users can either participate …

  • Sahil Lavingia: ‘Build products to scale yourself.’

    Sahil Lavingia is a 19-year-old who likes to build things. Apparently big things. The founder of Gumroad, a site that “lets you sell like you share,” Lavingia draws on his background with Pinterest and Turntable to produce more, better, faster. “I build products to scale myself,” the founding Pinterest designer said during his morning talk…