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Linseed Capital buys central Omaha building to house its companies
Angel investment group Linseed Capital has a new home in Central Omaha at 719 S. 75th Street. James and Karen Linder bought the almost 10,000-square-foot building and an adjoining home next door in August.
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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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Meet our eight-member Silicon Prairie Awards Selection Committee
As a community, you’ve done your part to tell us who you think should be crowned the winners of the 2014 Silicon Prairie Awards. But now it’s time to share who will make up the second part of our voting process. This year we’ve incorporated the votes of two judges from each section of our…
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Say hi to the newest Big Omaha cow, courtesy of Tethon 3D
Big Omaha attendees may have noticed a new incarnation of the conference’s iconic cow this year. A 3D ceramic printer is pumping out a dozen tiny ceramic cows at a time in a back corner of KANEKO. Tethon 3D, a 3D printing company based in Omaha, answered Silicon Prairie News’ call for art installations during…
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Big Omaha insight from veteran attendees Jim and Karen Linder
Jim and Karen Linder are the founders and managing directors at Linseed Capital. Through that fund they’ve invested in companies like Bulu Box, Flywheel, Eye Verify, SkyVu and Travefy—just one piece of how they support our community. We recently asked the Linders to share their Big Omaha experience to provide insight on both the conference…
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Karen Linder starts, sells and invests in companies
If you follow Nebraska startup news, Jim and Karen Linder should be familiar names by now. The husband-and-wife investment team has put money into 20 companies, including SkyVu Entertainment, Bulu Box, Travefy and EyeVerify. But what probably isn’t too familiar …
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Lightbank leads way as SkyVu raises new seed funding
With the growing success of its free-to-play model, Omaha mobile games company SkyVu Entertainment reached profitability early this year and wasn’t actively seeking institutional investment. But that began to change in May, over the course of a couple of tweets. “We were in a comfy position to choose whether or not we needed to pursue…
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With $400k round led by Dundee VC, Bulu Box set to hire, push marketing
Bulu Box continues to find fertile ground for raising funds in Nebraska. Paul and Stephanie Jarrett, Bulu Box’s husband and wife co-founders, moved their young company from San Francisco to Lincoln earlier this year, thanks in part to the lure of $100,000 in financing from a group of investors that included Dr. Jim and Karen…
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An excerpt from Karen Linder’s ‘The Women of Berkshire Hathaway’
I’ve attended the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder’s meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, for the past few years and always get there early (or send my husband early) to be able to secure seats in the main arena of the 19,000-seat CenturyLink Center. The 2011 attendance was 40,000, so getting there by 6:30 a.m. is important, lest…
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Curiosity leads Omaha angel investor to pen book about Berkshire women
Karen Linder, cytotechnologist, Nebraska Angels investor and entrepreneur, has added published author to her credentials. The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffet’s Female CEOs and Directors, published by John Wiley and Sons, debuts this weekend at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder’s meeting in Omaha. It was actually last year’s meeting …
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