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Watch Cornstalks Demo Night live (hashtag: #prairiedemo)
We’re live at Creighton University’s Harper Center for Cornstalks Demo Night, where demos will get under way a little after 7 p.m. Six companies are set to present, and we’ll stream five of those presentations here. Follow along with our live stream, join in the chat above or share your thoughts on Twitter using the…
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Cornstalks Demo Night returning August 4
After a successful Demo Night in March, Cornstalks, a monthly gathering hosted by the Omaha Chamber for individuals interested in high-growth entrepreneurship, will be bringing back the event on August 4. The time and venue are set (details below) but the the lineup of presenting companies is still coming together. So far, participating in …
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Events: Startup Drinks, KCNext IT Happy Hour and Cornstalks
Events reach each of the major cities on the Prairie this week. Tuesday, startups in Des Moines will rally at Tally’s for Startup Drinks, and on Thursday, KCNext will host a summer happy hour at the Boulevard Brewery. Later that evening, the Omaha Chamber will host its Cornstalks event at …
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John Grange on raising capital, gray hair and grabbing beers
At last night’s Cornstalks, a monthly gathering for pre-seed and seed entrepreneurs in high growth businesses, tech entrepreneur and investor John Grange shared his experiences with his former company, PowerDNN, and his current stealth startup, Layered Innovations. Throughout his presentation, Grange delivered lessons learned about raising capital and integrating into the entrepreneurial …
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Cornstalks featuring entrepreneur and investor John Grange
Hopefully this announcement isn’t too short of notice for you, because if you’re free tomorrow evening it’ll be worth your time to check out Cornstalks at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce downtown office (1301 Harney). Following the usual format of the last Thursday of the month gathering, networking starts at 6:30 p.m. with provided…
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Nebraska Global’s Kiene, Smith to speak Thursday at Cornstalks
Steve Kiene and Patrick Smith of Nebraska Global will speak at Cornstalks on Thursday night at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce downtown office (1301 Harney). Networking starts at 6:30 p.m., and the presentation follows at 7:30. Kiene is managing principal and Smith is …
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Events: Startup Drinks, SPN Meetup, Cornstalks and more
From two of our own events (Startup Lessons Learned viewing party taking place now and a meetup on Wednesday) to Think Big Kansas City and Startup Drinks in Des Moines, there’s quite the range of activity taking place on the Prairie this week. With startup events every day …
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Cornstalks Demo Night: Wrapping it all up (Video)
As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we’ve…
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Cornstalks Demo Night: Hollrback demo by Gabe Kangas (Video)
Hollrback founder Gabe Kangas presented his company’s context-specific, event-based contact-management system. That description, Kangas said, is “a fancy way of saying that when you meet people, we’re going to try to take care of making that information useful to you.” Technical difficulties prevented us from recording Kangas’ presentation on Demo Night, but he was kind…