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  • Women tech groups blossom in Nebraska, but there’s room to grow

    Women-led tech groups are growing in Nebraska and leaders say it’s because there’s a need for camaraderie, personal growth and networking among women in tech. In the last two years, five Nebraska-based groups have grown in an attempt to change the tide in the male-dominated fields of science, tech, engineering and math. That’s partially why…

  • Ladies Who Launch to kick off Omaha chapter September 17

    A meetup group that launched in Lincoln less than a year ago has already inspired a duo in Omaha to start it up here. And starting it up is no surprise: it’s at the core of the group that calls itself Ladies Who Launch. “It is just what Omaha needs,” Beka Doolittle (far left), owner…

  • Ladies Who Launch connects female entrepreneurs in Lincoln

    When Jill Thayer Liliedahl, founder of the frozen treat company Pop Art, and Amber Pankonin, creator of the health-oriented recipe app StirList, met on the Lincoln, Neb. startup scene, the pair began noticing a missing demographic at the events they were attending. Both women were startled by the lack of female entrepreneurs. “We would show…