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Brad Feld at Big Omaha: “Any rich people around here?” [Video]
Brad Feld, co-founder of Techstars and Foundry Group, sat down with David Hauser at Big Omaha 2015 to talk about investing in Harmonix before Guitar Hero, not investing in Twitter, and his worst IPO experience ever during the Dot-com crash. Feld received the biggest applause when discussing the importance of early stage seed capital in startup communities. Speaking…
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The Kansas City Startup Village permit issue: explained
Two weeks ago, a small army of Kansas City entrepreneurs descended on the Planning Commission meeting in Kansas City, Kansas. Here’s why. Entrepreneurs are not known for their patience, and a room full of them listening through appeals on sign location was a strange sight. Their sudden interest in the zoning laws, however, was the…
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Big Omaha announces Brad Feld, Marc Hemeon and 9 other speakers + tickets
Big Omaha released $399 Early Bird tickets from March 13-20. Big Omaha veterans and startup founders are encouraged to buy their tickets now to get the event on their calendar. Early bird tickets are available at bigomaha.com.
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Leap.it closes $1.1M round with Brad Feld, AngelList syndicate as investors
Leap.it founder and CEO Mike Farmer first got to know Brad Feld by driving him to and from the airport for meetings at the Kauffman Foundation, where Feld was a board member. Now Leap.it has closed a $1.1 million convertible note…
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Three of the Techstars co-founders to attend Sprint accelerator demo day
Last week Techstars co-founder David Cohen blogged about one of his impending trips—this time, to Kansas City. Cohen, along with fellow co-founders Brad Feld and David Brown, will attend the Demo Day for the 10 companies partaking in the inaugural class…
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Will more startup hubs help or hurt Omaha’s startup scene?
The announcement of a proposed Technology Village at Crossroads near 72nd and Dodge streets in Omaha has brought equal parts excitement and concern from community members worried about density and the health of a dispersed startup community. If some communities use a sniper to take aim at locations for clusters of startups, Omaha seems to…
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Without further ado, the most read SPN story of 2013 is…
On Monday, we introduced stories 13 through 7 of Silicon Prairie News’ most read stories of 2013. Now we bring you the articles that made our top six most popular stories, including our top story of the year …
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Former Kauffman fellow opens KCSV house to international entrepreneurs
Jonathan Ortmans wants to import international ideas into Kansas City and hopes Kansas City’s flavor makes it around the world. The president of Global Entrepreneurship Week recently bought a house in the Kansas City Startup Village to let international entrepreneurs absorb all the community’s happenings. First up in the GEW Startup House will be the…
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Brad Feld hands Fiberhouse keys to Handprint
Brad Feld’s Fiberhouse is ready to make its mark in the Kansas City Startup Village, the neighborhood where Google Fiber was first installed. The Boulder, Colo., investor, entrepreneur and author announced today on his blog that 3D modeling startup Handprint has won his KC Fiberhouse competition. “Handprint is working on some amazing 3D printing and…