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  • Upcoming events: Startup Weekend KC, MVF with Pete Ricketts and more

    Here’s a rundown of upcoming events around the Prairie. Make sure to check out our events page weekly as we’re constantly adding new ones. Midlands Venture Forum Networking Dinner (Omaha) – April 22, 5:30-8 p.m. Featured Speaker: Pete Ricketts (left), founder of Drakon, LLC, an asset management company in Omaha. He previously served as a…

  • Upcoming events: Midlands Venture Forum, Startup Drinks and more

    Here’s a quality list of upcoming events in and around Omaha: Tuesday, March 9: Franchise Panel Discussion (Lincoln)…

  • Cornstalks to coincide with MVF this Thursday, January 28

    This month’s Cornstalks, an informal gathering for seed and pre-seed entrepreneurs with high growth companies, will be heading west and joining the Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) for its Entrepreneur Networking Reception at DJ’s Dugout Sports Bar and Grill (636 North 114th Street).

  • MVF: John Petersson of Vendorin speaking Thursday, January 28

    After its holiday break, Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) is back in session beginning this Thursday, January 28. Join them after work at DJ’s Dugout Sports Bar and Grill (636 North 114th Street) for their Entrepreneur Networking Reception. This month’s event will feature serial entrepreneur John Petersson, CEO & co-founder of Vendorin. John will talk about…

  • Small Business Administration focus of luncheon, World-Herald article

    The Small Business Administration (SBA) was the topic of the most recent Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) Educational Lunch Session: Mike Niehaus of the Small Business Administration Topic: “The SBA Today” Please join us for a current update on what’s new and what’s changed to the programs available to small business and start-up businesses from the…

  • MVF: Networking dinner to highlight innovation in tough economic times

    For this month’s Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) meeting, the regular Omaha attendees will be making their annual trek to Lincoln for a networking dinner at the Cornhusker Hotel (333 S. 13 St) on Thursday, November 19th. The topic of the evening will be “Innovation in Tough Economic Times – Strategies to Transform Outlook,” and the…

  • MVF: Thursday networking dinner to focus on turnarounds and restarts

    Tomorrow’s Midlands Venture Forum’s quarterly Networking Reception will feature Craig Tuttle, President and CEO of Transgenomic, speaking on the topic of “turnarounds and restarts.” The goal of MVF, which has been in existence since 2000, is to enable entrepreneurs, investors and service providers to collaborate. At these receptions, the opportunity to mingle is not only…

  • GoPollGo presents at Cornstalks, set to present at MVF tonight

    At last month’s Cornstalks, Ben Schaechter gave us both a demo of his newly-launched polling web app, GoPollGo, as well as a bit of its history. He begins with a humorous anecdote of why he was compelled to learn programing at a young age and he ends by showing off a number of cool features…

  • MVF: Thursday’s networking dinner to focus on bootstrapping

    Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), an organization we partnered with earlier this year to promote and share video of their events, will be hosting a Networking Dinner this Thursday. The focus of the panel assembled will be to discuss the topic of the evening, “Growing Business Through Bootstrapping and Other Capital-Efficient Means” You may recognize a…

  • MVF: Stephanie Healy speaks at Entrepreneur Networking Reception

    At Thurday night’s Midlands Venture Forum event, Omahan Stephanie Healy spoke about her experiences founding, running, and later selling Vente, formerly WFSdirect, to Experian in 2005. In the first 14 minutes, she shares her success story, from her job at Omaha Steaks in the 90s where she learned direct marketing on the web to helping…