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Your Happy Plate wins Startup Weekend Omaha (full results)
Full post coming soon, but the results are… 1. Your Happy Plate – Mobile app for people with special dietary needs; yourhappyplate.com, @yourhappyplate, Your Happy Plate on Facebook 2/3. (Tie) Gossip Closet – Social game that involves scanning of bar codes on clothing and sharing the items with your friends – gossip-closet.kickofflabs.com, @gossipclosetapp, Gossip Closet…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Final pitches live-streaming at 7 p.m.
Startup Weekend Omaha concludes tonight with a whopping 18 teams pitching their products to a panel of four judges and the crowd gathered at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner, followed by presentations at 7. And if you can’t be among the crowd at Mammel Hall?…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: The 18 teams (with links) and Day 3 photos
Day three of Startup Weekend Omaha is well under way as our some of the teams products, with previews of a few of them on the web. Stay tuned for a post later today with the embedded video as we live stream the pitches starting at 7 p.m. tonight. Each team will have five minutes…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Teams and Day 2 photos
The Saturday midday check-in at Startup Weekend Omaha recently wrapped up, and 18 teams are back at work, scattered throughout the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall, preparing minimum viable products for Sunday night’s final presentations. Friday’s opening pitch session saw 51 ideas proposed, and those were whittled down to …
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As Startup Weekend Omaha kicks off today, this video sets the tone
On Sunday, Startup Weekend concluded its highest attended event to date. Appropriately named “Mega Startup Weekend,” it brought together more than 300 participants to compete for a spot on stage at the DEMO conference in Silicon Valley. Back here in Silicon Prairie, organizers are preparing to kick off this weekend’s event that’s unofficially serving as…
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Events: Power Breakfast, TechBrew, Startup Weekend and more
Keep your eyes peeled for some great traction this week on the Prairie. Starting off the week, the 2011 Power Breakfast and SITAKS breakfast briefing will replenish folks on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively, and Nebraska Global will Face the Chamber at a luncheon on Wednesday. On Thursday, look for the Great Plains Capital Conference in…
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Startup Weekend Omaha speakers announced
Startup Weekend Omaha, now just two weeks away (Sept. 16-18), has begun to round out its roster of organizers, judges and speakers. The latter of which we have the privilege to announce here. Kicking off the …
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Events: Angel Investing Overview, Dwolla meetup, Cornstalks and more
Buckle your seat belts for a wild ride this week. Eight events will have you bouncing back and forth between Omaha, Des Moines and the respective surrounding areas. To kick things off, Tuesday in Lincoln will feature the first of two VBA Silicon Prairie events on Angel Investing. Later that evening in Des Moines …
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Prairie Moves: Jennifer Hoyt, Red Nova Labs, Bumble 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 editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if…