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Big Omaha Video Series: Extended Speaker Q&A
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the tenth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features the “Extended Speaker Q&A” in which we brought back on stage six of our speakers: Jason Fried of 37signals, Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and VaynerMedia, Scott Belsky of Behance, Dennis Crowley…
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Big Omaha Video Series: Dennis Crowley of foursquare
(Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the fourth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our first presenter from the event’s second day, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of foursquare. Crowley and the foursquare team are continuing to make major waves in the industry and the crowd was excited…
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‘Silicon Prairie’& Big Omaha featured on CNN.com
In case you missed the Twitter and Facebook chatter these past few days, last Friday, CNN.com published an article titled Techies reject coasts for ‘Silicon Prairie,’ in which we were interviewed by its author, Josh Rubin. It was great opportunity for us to highlight the work as well as a handful of the companies…
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Big Omaha: Saturday live blog
8:03 a.m. Welcome to Day 2 of Big Omaha. After an educational, enjoyable, and inspirational day of speakers, parties, and connecting yesterday, we’re getting set to jump into another shared experience with the likes of Dennis Crowley (foursquare), Melody McCloskey (StyleSeat) and Tony Hsieh (Zappos). I’m the duly appointed live blogger for today so if…
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Big Omaha: Afternoon sessions live blog
1:32 p.m. After a great lunch across the street at the Halo Institute people are settling in for the afternoon sessions. Up first will be Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, who will be interviewed by Robert Scoble, blogger, technical evangelist and managing director of building43. Let’s get started! | 1:41 Automattic has 60 employees across…
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Sunday Video Series: Dennis Crowley: Adventures in Mobile Social 2.0
Keeping in line with weekly links to startup-related posts that we find interesting, each Sunday we’ll be sharing a video with solid content that we found while scouring the web for entrepreneurial and innovative inspiration. This week’s video features Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare (which should pass three million users by the end of the…
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Happy Foursquare Day from Big Omaha!
It’s Foursquare Day, and to celebrate we’ve announced a few more speakers to the Big Omaha roster! Anyone up for a game of Foursquare while wearing a pair of shoes from Zappos while dining on a delicious meal found on Foodspotting while reviewing data from SimpleGeo? Look for more details early next week, but take…
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Foursquare lauches in Omaha!
Alright folks! It’s here! Some of you may have already seen some chatter on Twitter for this new application called Foursquare. For those who don’t know, Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates fun gaming elements. The game revolves around “checking into” places you are physically at. The experience is fun and extremely…