Grasshopper

  • Guest Post: Lessons learned from failure

    (This is a guest post by Jonathan Kay). Odds are, you have a blog reader. You have all your favorite sites and RSS feeds hooked in, and I would even venture to say you start your day off each morning by skimming through all this content. You probably read a handful of “five tips on…

  • Big Omaha: Thursday speakers in the spotlight

    Haven’t had time to do your homework on all of this year’s Big Omaha speakers? Not to worry; we can help you cram. We’ve combed the world wide interwebs to come up with a couple of stories, interviews, videos or otherwise noteworthy nuggets on each of our Big Omaha presenters so that you can brush…

  • Celebrate the first-ever National Entrepreneurs’ Day…today!

    From the Silicon Prairie to the Silicon Valley and all around the world, today is a day for entrepreneurs to celebrate. And President Barack Obama says so! It’s true, November 14th through November 20th has…

  • Big Omaha Video Series: David Hauser of Grasshopper

    Today, we’re releasing the third presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our second presenter, David Hauser, co-founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs. Hauser gave attendees a look into how he and his team have built Grasshopper into what it is today. Giving the backstory and implementation of their…

  • Big Omaha: Two minutes with David Hauser of Grasshopper

    Fresh off moderating a panel of entrepreneurs at Big Omaha, I spoke with David Hauser about his impressions of the event and the Midwest. David, a Boston resident, is the co-founder of Grasshopper, Chargify and Grasshopper Labs. He was in Omaha for the first time to participate not only as a moderator but to open…

  • Sunday Video: Tim Jahn of Beyond the Pedway interviews David Hauser

    For the past two weeks, Tim Jahn, creator of the Chicago-based weekly video podcast Beyond the Pedway, has been posting his interviews with some of the Big Omaha 2010 speakers. Last Friday, he released his interview with Dennis Crowley of foursquare and this past Friday, David Hauser of Grasshopper. Although they’re labeled “Special Edition Big…

  • Big Omaha: Morning sessions live blog

    8:32 a.m. The doors are open, the breakfast table is stocked and the mic’s gettin’ tested… Big Omaha 2010 is underway! Jeff and Dusty should be taking the stage in roughly 30 minutes for the day’s opening speech. We’ll check back in with you then! | 9:11 Jeff and Dusty are on stage. Here we…

  • National Entrepreneurship Week: This video sums it up

    Although this video wasn’t commissioned by the organization behind National Entrepreneurship Week (February 20-27), I’m confident it sums up their mission quite well.