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  • SelectOut’s Pappas, 20, gives his take on the ‘Silicon Prairie’ (Video)

    Calvin Pappas, founder of internet privacy startup SelectOut, recently recounted his experience of spending a summer in Silicon Valley as an intern and then returning to Lincoln, Nebraska to pursue his entrepreneurial endeavor. “(Silicon Valley) has everything you could possibly want,” Pappas (left) said in an Ignite Lincoln presentation in January. “They offered me several…

  • Silicon Prairie: The makings of a new startup scene – Part 2

    You, the Silicon Prairie News community, know the stories behind Dwolla, Hudl and Zave Networks, which I shared in the Part 1 of this post. You also know that Scott Harrison of New York-based charity: water gave one of the most memorable presentations to the world in Omaha and that Ben Silbermann of Palo Alto’s…

  • Silicon Prairie: The makings of a new startup scene – Part 1

    In an article featured on Forbes.com on Monday, Anneke Jong of The Daily Muse spotlights seven regions around the country that are burgeoning hubs for startup activity, including our very own Silicon Prairie. Each region has a name that plays off of the “Silicon” in Silicon Valley, which Jong describes as “a metonym for the…

  • Forbes features story on ‘new startup scene,’ highlights Silicon Prairie

    Forbes published a story today shedding light on the growing number of startup communities throughout the United States that use “Silicon” in their name.* The Silicon Prairie was among the seven cities and regions featured in the article, “The New Start-up Scene: From Silicon Strip to Silicon Mitten,” and we …

  • TalkAbroad founder discusses Silicon Valley, Omaha startup scene

    In January of this year, Todd Nichols began working full-time on his startup, TalkAbroad, a company using online video conferencing to connect American college students learning a foreign language with native speakers abroad. The idea for the Omaha native’s startup came about while working for a micro-finance organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he learned to…