Leap Ventures

  • David Milligan of Advent IP to present Thursday night at Cornstalks

    David Milligan, founding partner of Advent IP and co-founder of Leap Ventures, will present at this month’s meeting of Cornstalks, which takes place at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at CAMP Coworking in the the Mastercraft Building (1111 N. 13th St.). More on Milligan, courtesy of the Advent IP website: David is a founding partner of Advent…

  • 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…

  • Building an entrepreneurial ecosystem: what does success look like?

    This is a guest post written by Tom Chapman, director of innovation and entrepreneurship for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. The shared goal of many individuals who read this blog is to “create a robust, sustainable entrepreneurial and innovation ecosystem.” But, what…

  • Cornstalks set for Dec. 16

    It’s Cornstalks time again, folks! Wow. It actually occurs to me that this will be the last one of 2009. My, how the year has flown by! Last time (for those of you who weren’t there), we heard from Tim Kephart of Graffiti Tracker and Susan Thaden of Client Resources, Inc. We posted that footage…

  • MVF: High growth business initiatives discussed at June’s networking dinner

    I apologize for my tardiness on posting this video. Through our partnership with the Midlands Venture Forum, we’ve agreed to post video of all of their events. Although this took place over a month ago, I still strongly encourage you to check it out as it covers the current efforts of four people and organizations…

  • 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…

  • 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…