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Timothy Kephart, Graffiti Tracker: “I hated my company.”
SPN: The last time we did a story on you and Graffiti Tracker was in 2010. What have you been up to for the past 5 years? TK: I’ve spent the better part of the past five years traveling. I spend my winters in the Dominican Republic and usually summer in Europe. I’m researching graffiti…
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Prairie Moves: Dave Medema, Erik Antonson, Charise Flynn and more
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), 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…
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Context is everything: Hollrback rolls out Android app on eve of SXSW
Hollrback, a startup that’s made “context is everything” its mantra, illustrated an appreciation for the importance timing today with the release of its latest mobile offering. The context-based contact management system unveiled its Android app today (left, screenshots from market.android.com), on the eve of South By Southwest Interactive in Austin, Texas. “We’re all about meeting…
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Hollrback in action – the fastest QR code reader we’ve experienced
Yesterday, when Jimmy Winter of RockDex stopped by our office to say hello, we cut a short video of us demonstrating the use of Hollrback, a contact management iPhone and web app that launched out of Omaha yesterday. Also, Hollrback’s creator, Gabe Kangas, published a thorough post yesterday on his personal blog, Gabe’s Digital Life…
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Timothy Kephart of Graffiti Tracker speaks at Gov 2.0 Expo
Earlier this week, Timothy Kephart, founder of Omaha-based Graffiti Tracker, spoke at this year’s Gov 2.0 Expo co-produced by O’Reilly Conferences and UBM TechWeb. Timothy’s talk, Graffiti Tracker: Utilizing Data to Fight Crime, gives an excellent overview of the problem and opportunity his company addresses. Here’s more on Graffiti Tracker from the Expo’s schedule…
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SXSW: With support out of Omaha, The Startup Bus delivers
Catching up on Twitter a couple months ago I was reminded just how the small the world can be sometimes. In this instance, I learned that Elias Bizannes, an Australian that I had met at South by Southwest Interactive 2009, had just gained attention for one of his side projects: @EliasBiz: My @startupbus idea got…
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Cornstalks set for Dec. 16
It’s Cornstalks time again, folks! Wow. It actually occurs to me that this will be the last one of 2009. My, how the year has flown by! Last time (for those of you who weren’t there), we heard from Tim Kephart of Graffiti Tracker and Susan Thaden of Client Resources, Inc. We posted that footage…
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Recent Cornstalks featured Graffiti Tracker, Client Resources, Inc.
Usually, I end up waiting until I remind folks about an upcoming Cornstalks event before posting footage from the previous month, but this time I just couldn’t help myself. In November, Cornstalks attendees heard from Timothy Kephart of Graffiti Tracker and Susan Thaden of Client Resources, Inc. As is our custom at SPN, we recorded…
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SPN interviews Timothy Kephart of Graffiti Tracker
One of the benefits of working in BrightMix’s office is meeting the clients that stop by for meetings, parties, or the sporadic Friday grill session. It was at the latter of these that I met Timothy Kephart and his team at Graffiti Tracker. At the time, they were new to Omaha as Tim had recently…
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Creative Capital Pitch Session III: Eight to compete for $1,000 prize Thursday, Oct. 1
Congratulations to Nancy Williams, Grant Stanley, Nick Knudson, Timothy Kephart, and Andrew Curran, for rounding out our contestant line-up! You can view their one-minute pitch videos below, along with those of the first three contestants announced, Kyle Laughlin, Joe Frost, and Brendan Evans. Now, it’s time for the last two rounds. Join us Thursday at…