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10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to Lincoln’s startup community
While the Silicon Prairie may span across several states, include vastly different types of companies and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds (and football rivalries), supportive communities are one factor that tie them all together. Whether you’re in Omaha or Des Moines, Kansas City or Cedar Rapids, you’ll find people who really care about helping their fellow…
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Get to know the five finalists for Executive of the Year
Even though it may have been bleak at times, or maybe it was a smooth ride, but they led their company to remarkable success. And the finalists are…
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Group travel planner Travefy acquires San Francisco’s Tripeese
Travefy, the startup out of Lincoln that wants to make group travel easier, has acquired San Francisco competitor Tripeese. Travefy made the announcement Monday morning. Tripeese was founded in 2013 by Wharton and Harvard Business School students Rodrigo Boscolo and Matheus Riolfi. Their trip planner was released in mid-2013 via partnerships with Expedia and HomeAway.
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When it comes to finding your next co-founder, don’t settle
(Guest post by David Chait & Chris Davis) Any entrepreneur can attest that a startup is all-consuming. From endless hours working to infinite hours thinking through your company, startup life is life. As such, there is nothing more important than a strong team that motivates, complements and challenges each other—and, of course, has fun …
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Travefy unveils new features, lets users plan trips without accounts
Travefy, a site dedicated to simplifying group travel planning, announced changes for the site Wednesday. Among the new features …
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EyeVerify knocks out Get in the Ring win, Travefy grabs second
Two Silicon Prairie startups entered the Get in the Ring finals Monday night along with six other companies. They ended the night tops in the country. EyeVerify CEO Toby Rush, presenting in the smartphone biometrics startup’s hometown of Kansas City, had the crowd behind him from the first bell, winning the overall competition and fan…
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Lincoln-based Travefy launches redesign, closes $320K seed round
After launching their public beta back in January, co-founders David Chait and Chris Davis have been working to make Travefy the go-to option for planning a group trip. Since then, they’ve introduced a major redesign and distilled the user experience to a dead-simple interface …
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Grad student, Hudl developer team up to launch group travel app
Pulling together a hotel reservation, affordable flight and list of activities for a vacation can be daunting. Getting a whole group to agree on travel plans is an entirely different beast. David Chait, a Columbia University graduate student in New York, faced that problem when coordinating a trip for a friend’s bachelor party. “We were…