MAKE Collaboration

  • Prairie Portrait: Justin Brouillette of MAKE Collaboration

    Silicon Prairie News: Having run a successful Kickstarter campaign for The Prop, what words of wisdom can you offer other people hoping to bring their own good ideas to life through Kickstarter? | Justin Brouillette: We found Kickstarter to both be wonderful and perplexing. The largest challenge is not knowing what you are getting into.…

  • Prop hits goal, becomes Nebraska’s highest funded Kickstarter project

    A crowdfunding campaign started just over a month ago by four former and current University of Nebraska–Lincoln students has ended in success, raising almost 120 percent of its initial $18,000 goal to begin the manufacturing of the Prop, a patent-pending portable laptop stand. The group behind the invention, MAKE Collaboration, conducted its …

  • Prairie Moves: Marq Manner, VoterTide, Kelsey Dempsey and more

    Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development and more 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 …

  • Nebraska designers’ laptop stand draws praise, needs funds

    A team of Nebraska designers is earning high marks — or even, we dare say, “mad props” — for its new laptop stand, The Prop. Nicholas Pajerski and Justin Brouillette, who work together with a group called MAKE Collaboration, created The Prop, a portable stand composed of two interlocking pieces of inexpensive, lightweight plastic, in…