Doug Durham

  • Catching Up with Tech Innovator Doug Durham of Don’t Panic Labs and Nebraska Global

    Catching Up with Tech Innovator Doug Durham of Don’t Panic Labs and Nebraska Global

    Every year, the AIM Tech Celebration awards ceremony recognizes individuals, organizations, teams, students and educators furthering the cause of technology in the community.  Doug Durham is one of those people.  In 2016, Durham won a Tech Celebration award in the Tech Innovator category for his work as CEO of software development company Don’t Panic Labs…

  • With $17.7M raise, Nebraska Global brings fund to $37.3M

    Nebraska Global today announced a larger-than-anticipated boost in its effort to “develop here.” The Lincoln-based software investment fund has completed …

  • Guest Post: Of internships and new grads

    (This is a guest post by Doug Durham.) Internships are new to us. In fact, hiring people straight out of college is new to us. Historically, we have built our teams by hiring experienced (or relatively experienced) people often via word of mouth recommendations. We have always been quite protective of our culture and the…

  • Nebraska Global’s Doug Durham offers inside look at ICORA launch

    From the outset, Nebraska Global has touted the potential that exists where “nerds and money” intersect. But to folks outside the Lincoln-based venture fund’s Haymarket office, what Nebraska Global has represented since its launch in late 2010 has been mostly that — potential. Well, the tangible realization of that potential is under way, marked most…

  • Nebraska Global: $20M ‘patient capital’ with plans for $10M more

    Lincoln Journal Star reporter Richard Piersol has shed a lot more light on Nebraska Global, the venture capital fund whose website launch (the company’s first “press release” of sorts) we covered on December 22nd: “Venture capital fund Nebraska Global opens in Lincoln.” Piersol’s article, “New company aims to develop home-grown software entrepreneurs” (left, screenshot from…

  • Venture capital fund Nebraska Global opens in Lincoln

    Earlier this month, we were excited to add our first Silicon Prairie News contributor in our state’s capitol city, Lincoln, Nebraska (see our post: “Welcome our new writers”). Our new writer, Kate Ellingson, won’t begin contributing until early next year, and thanks to a website launch today, we already have a major item of news…