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Update: Cornstalks featuring John Gustafson, Prairie Ventures
A quick update on tonight’s Cornstalks at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s downtown office. The originally scheduled speaker, Mark Hasebroock of Dundee Venture Capital, had a scheduling conflict arise, but organizer Tom Chapman has found a great, last minute replacement – John Gustafson of Prairie Ventures (left, photo from linkedin.com/in/ideationventures). Cornstalks will kick off…
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Hollrback in action – the fastest QR code reader we’ve experienced
Yesterday, when Jimmy Winter of RockDex stopped by our office to say hello, we cut a short video of us demonstrating the use of Hollrback, a contact management iPhone and web app that launched out of Omaha yesterday. Also, Hollrback’s creator, Gabe Kangas, published a thorough post yesterday on his personal blog, Gabe’s Digital Life…
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Midlands Business Journal’s 2010 ’40 Under 40′
Earlier this month, the Midlands Business Journal, a weekly trade publication in Omaha, released its annual “40 Under 40” list recognizing 40…
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Prairie Moves: John Gustafson, Agile Sports, Oxide Design & more
The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if…
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MVF: Private equity professionals panel this Thursday, May 27
Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), an Omaha-based non-profit dedicated to creating regional support for entrepreneurs in the Midlands, will be bringing together three private equity professionals for a panel at this month’s…
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Dave Milligan and John Gustafson announce entreprenuer and startup geared services
Not quite the same announcement as the past two days from Leap Ventures and Invest Nebraska Corporation, but the two founders from Leap have also expanded their professional services to better serve entrepreneurs and startups. Dave, an attorney at Husch Blackwell Sanders LLP, has begun offering a fixed-priced intellectual property counsel and John, the founder…
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Invest Nebraska announces Operational Assistance Program
After an exciting announcement for start-ups yesterday from Leap Ventures, we received a press release from Invest Nebraska Corporation today announcing the launch of its Operational Assistance program, which will invest up to $25,000 in selected companies. (Will we be seeing another announcement tomorrow? Let’s hope so.) From Lincoln: Invest Nebraska Corporation, a non-profit venture…
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Leap Ventures launches in Omaha to provide capital and relational funding
A couple weeks ago, Adam Nielsen of GoodTwin Design started a bit of buzz around Omaha with a tweet: goodtwindesign: Just launched a temporary site for Leap Ventures http://leapventures.org/ Looking forward to working with them. Adam was retweeted several times, and so too was John Gustafson, who wrote: JohnGustafson: New details on Leap Ventures at…