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NPR sheds light on birth of startup hotbed with Silicon Valley series
There’s frequent discussion here on Silicon Prairie News and among the entrepreneurs and startups this publication covers regarding the idea of the entrepreneurial ecosystem. How do you foster one? What are its essential elements? How does what we have here in the Midwest measure up to other ecosystems? A good percentage of the time, that…
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Thriving privacy site SelectOut.org puts 19-year-old in high demand
Calvin Pappas seems to eat, sleep and breathe online privacy policy. Sometimes almost literally. Pappas, a 19-year-old sophomore at the University of Nebraska and founder of online privacy manager SelectOut.org said he has brushed up on internet privacy by reading more than 600 policies — most of which amount to 2,500 words of drowse-inducing legalese.…
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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…