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Startup Weekend Omaha returning Sept. 16-18
Omaha entrepreneurs, grab the nearest pen, highlighter or other writing implement of choice and flip that calendar …
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Dialing up Call Spinner: Startup Weekend team stays on the line
Call Spinner, a phone number that when called pairs you up with another random caller, launched nearly two weeks ago at the second Startup Weekend Omaha, September 10-12. Not only did the team of four take away the competition’s top prize of $300, but they kept and have continued to work on their service.
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Day 3 pictures
As I did the first two days of Startup Weekend Omaha, I strolled the hallways and offices of the Mastercraft building yesterday taking pictures of the attendees, amenities and food of the 54-hour event. For more information about Startup Weekend Omaha, check out omaha.startupweekend.org…
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Call Spinner wins Startup Weekend Omaha (team demo videos)
Congrats to Call Spinner for taking home top honors at Startup Weekend Omaha, a 54-hour event challenging attendees to present ideas, form teams, plan, implement, and then finally present their just-born startup to a panel of judges. Second place was awarded to Everpresent, a web and smartphone app that prompts you to record important moments…
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Live-streaming: Startup Weekend Omaha demos at 7:15 p.m. CDT
Join us around 7:15 p.m. CDT for live-streaming of demo pitches from the four teams at Startup Weekend Omaha. Here are the four ideas being presented (in order): Keepum – An online Twitter archiving service keeping your tweets and favorite searches and allowing you to explore, export and embed those tweets. (Originally pitched by Danny…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: Team idea pitches (videos) & day two pictures
As the teams hunkered down for the full day of work yesterday, Startup Weekend facilitator Sterling Cross grabbed video of each team’s pitch. When doing so, I learned that we lost one idea in the weekend competition, Volunteer Tasklist is no longer being pursued by a team. Here are the idea pitches (originally posted by…
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Startup Weekend Omaha: The ideas selected & opening night pictures
Starting at 8 a.m. today, six teams will dive into their ideas, working to create a working prototype to pitch to the judges when time runs out Sunday evening. Out of around 15 ideas, the following six were chosen to implement at this year’s Startup Weekend Omaha (in alphabetical order): Buzz – A way to…
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Startup Weekend Omaha kicks off with ‘startup lessons learned’ talks
At 7 p.m. last night, Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off with three guest speakers addressing the subject “startup lessons learned.” These three talks are below: Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks (left), Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo.
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Live-streaming: Startup Weekend Omaha starts tonight, 7:15 p.m. CDT
(Attendees gather at What Cheer for the opening day of Startup Weekend Omaha. Photo by John Henry Müller.) Join us around 7:15 p.m. CDT for live-streaming of the opening talks at Startup Weekend Omaha. Hear Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks, Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo, present on the topic “startup lessons learned.”…
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10 reasons to attend Startup Weekend Omaha
After a successful first event this past March, Startup Weekend Omaha round two (September 10-12) will be kicking off in less than nine days at the Mastercraft building. The 54-hour event challenges attendees…