Joe Frost

Call Spinner wins Startup Weekend Omaha (team demo videos)

Congrats to Call Spinner for taking home top honors at Startup Weekend Omaha, a 54-hour event challenging attendees to present ideas, form teams, plan, implement, and then finally present their just-born startup to a panel of judges. Second place was awarded to Everpresent, a web and smartphone app that prompts you to record important moments…

September 13, 2010
Where are they now? Creative Capital Pitch Session III contestants

This is the last of three posts with updates from our CCPS contestants. A few weeks ago, Dan Hoffman of Invest Nebraska, the organization that has sponsored our CCPS $1,000 prize, asked me for updates from our past contestants. Unable to provide them myself, I contacted the 26 past contestants with three questions: Where are…

November 13, 2009
BarCamp Omaha reflections

I can honestly say BarCamp Omaha was like nothing I’d ever attended. Right from the get-go, there was this indescribable energy pulsing through every rafter of the Nomad Lounge. Maybe it was all that collective entrepreneurial brainpower. It also could have been the nigh inexhaustible supply of free Red Bull Cola. At any rate, there were innovations…

October 16, 2009
A highlight video from BarCampKC

BarCampKC was held this past weekend and Omaha’s own Joe Frost (@OmahaJoe on Twitter) was there. While there, he was able to catch a great interview with Steven Chau about BarcampKC and the entrepreneurial scene in the Kansas City region. It’s “BarCamp Season” and if you haven’t already registered for Omaha’s event this coming weekend,…

September 27, 2009
Creative Capital Pitch Session III: Congrats to our first contestants, five spots still open

Congratulations to Brendan Evans, Joe Frost, and Kyle Laughlin! Their one-minute YouTube pitches have earned them a chance to compete in our Creative Capital Pitch Session III, next Thursday, October 1st. Five spots remain. Do you have an idea to pitch? We’ve extended the submission deadline to Sunday, September 27th at 11:59 p.m. We hope…

September 24, 2009