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Dusty Reynolds: Company Scorecard
(Guest post by Dusty Reynolds) Discipline and accountability. I heard this phrase no less than 14 times in my first meeting with one of my advisors…
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10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to Omaha’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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Reynolds shifting roles at Chamber as he takes on heavier load at RaceNote
Dusty Reynolds is shifting roles at the Omaha Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber’s director of entrepreneurship and innovation and one of the well-respected leaders of Omaha’s startup community is stepping down from his position to shift his focus to RaceNote, his own startup that’s starting to take off…
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Chamber’s startup leader starts up his own project with RaceNote
Dusty Reynolds’ passion for racing began as a 12-year-old in Hooper, Neb., a town of 850 an hour outside Omaha. He swept garage floors of a dirt car-racing friend. By the time he hit high school, he was a crew chief of a team and for a while after school traveled around the country working…
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Prep your ideas for part two of Omaha’s Event Draft on Thursday
The second and last Omaha Chamber Startup Event Draft of 2014 is Thursday at 7 p.m. at Aromas in Benson. The Draft is similar to the first one that took place In February, in which community members slot Chamber-sponsored entrepreneurial events on the calendar. The events for this round will be scheduled from July through…
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MindMixer leaving Nebraska to unify team, hire 85 more in Kansas City
MindMixer is closing its Nebraska offices and moving to Kansas City. The online civic engagement platform is moving nearly all of its operations by the end of the summer. MindMixer established an office in North Omaha’s Mastercraft three years ago, and a KC office followed about six months later …
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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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Diverse events come from first Omaha Startup Community Event Draft
Fifty days of events in the next 106 days. Entrepreneurs will be in for quite the tidal wave of events from now through June after Thursday’s first Startup Community Event Draft. More than 50 Omahans attended the draft in which nearly every participant volunteered to put on an entrepreneurial-related event that will get up to…
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Five things you need to know about Thursday’s Omaha Event Draft
(Guest post by Dusty Reynolds) Thursday evening is Omaha’s inaugural Event Draft, beginning at 5:30 p.m. at Aroma’s/402 Collective, 6051 Maple St., in Benson. Each event will receive up to $400 in grants from a $20,000 fund provided by the Omaha Chamber of Commerce to help fund tech entrepreneurship events…
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Benson HS hopes new program reaches kids falling through the cracks
Greg Schlegel isn’t afraid to be honest about his school’s situation. In recent years, a student was shot and killed in a nearby neighborhood. In October, a student brought a gun to school. In December, another two students did the same. It’s not a stretch to say his school gets a lot of negative publicity.…