Matt Galligan

  • Big Omaha Video Series: Entrepreneur Panel

    (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we’re releasing the eleventh presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010. This video features the “Entrepreneur Panel” in which David Hauser of Grasshopper Group led the discussion of three entrepreneurs: Matt Galligan, co-founder of SimpleGeo, Alexa Andrzejewski, co-founder & CEO of Foodspotting and Justin Shaffer, founder of…

  • Lessons learned from TechStars for a Day

    After we learned Omahan Gabe Kangas was invited to participate in TechStars for a Day, we asked him to share his thoughts in a guest post on his return. | Alright, stay with me. I promise you’ll get something at the end. I don’t promise you’ll like it, though. I attended TechStars for a Day…

  • Happy Foursquare Day from Big Omaha!

    It’s Foursquare Day, and to celebrate we’ve announced a few more speakers to the Big Omaha roster! Anyone up for a game of Foursquare while wearing a pair of shoes from Zappos while dining on a delicious meal found on Foodspotting while reviewing data from SimpleGeo? Look for more details early next week, but take…

  • Cornstalks reminder and video of Matt Galligan’s presentation

    A quick reminder about Cornstalks tonight at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s downtown building (1301 Harney Street). Cornstalks is a group for pre-seed and seed entrepreneurs with high-growth companies. Drinks and snacks will be served at 6:30 followed by the formal program at 7:30 p.m. This month we will be hearing from Dr. Mike…

  • Cloud computing focus of tomorrow’s AIM Institute Technology Seminar

    Tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. at the Gallup Riverfront Campus (1001 Gallup Drive), Erik Eldridge, developer and evangelist on Yahoo! Developer Network’s Partner…

  • Weekly Wrap Up

    Mentioned this week * Filming on location at Greater Omaha Chamber’s Cornstalks gathering (held fourth Thursday of the month) * Next Thursday’s Greater Omaha Young Professionals Summit – interviews with keynote speakers Blake Mycoskie, Patricia Martin, and next week William Taylor * Startup Digest launched in Des Moines with Shane Reiser…

  • Next AIM Institute Technology Breakfast Seminar Friday, Feb. 26

    There’s still a few seats left for this Friday’s AIM Institute Technology Breakfast Seminar with Matt Galligan (pictured) of SimpleGeo. The focus of Matt’s presentation will be mobile application development trends and the business community. Matt has an amazing bio in the technology and startup community which he has built over the course of a…

  • Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25-26, packed with entrepreneur events

    There’s quite the smorgasbord of events this Thursday and Friday. I encourage you to take a look at them all and hopefully you’ll be able to make it to one.

  • AIM Institute’s Technology Breakfast Seminars begin January 22

    Registration is now open for AIM Institute’s Technology Breakfast Seminars, the first of which will be held on Friday, Jan. 22, at the Gallup Riverfront campus (1001 Gallup Drive). This year’s slate consists of some amazing speakers around the topics of social media implications and practices for business, current and future trends of mobile application…

  • SPN visits Boulder

    A few weeks ago Dusty Davidson and I landed in the state of Colorado to connect with many of the individuals building that region’s entrepreneurial class. We had the opportunity to meet many of them through their attendance at last year’s Big Omaha event, and have been talking about heading out there for some time,…