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  • Guest Post: Incubators are less important than the people in them

    I have heard a lot of discussion regarding incubators recently. There are many advocates, but I would offer that more important than the physical space for an incubator are the people who will go inside of it. I wanted to write a longer post rather than simply commenting on the PIE article because I wanted…

  • Tom Chapman departing the Chamber, joining Nebraska Global

    Earlier today Tom Chapman of the Omaha Chamber popped in the Silicon Prairie News office unannounced. “What’s up?” we asked. “I wanted to stop by to share some news with you,” Tom told us. This wasn’t the first time this scenario had played out, and when it does it usually involves something exciting in the…

  • Startup lawyer Bart Dillashaw to speak Thursday at Cornstalks

    Bart Dillashaw, a veteran startup lawyer who spent years plying his trade in Silicon Valley, will share his insights Thursday night at Omaha’s monthly meeting of entrepreneurial minds, Cornstalks. Networking starts at 6:30 p.m. with snacks and beverages provided, and Dillashaw’s presentation begins at 7:30 at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce’s downtown office (1301…

  • Chapman gives keynote on Omaha’s entrepreneurial ecosystem (Video)

    In case you couldn’t catch it in person or live via the Ustream feed, here, again, is Tom Chapman’s keynote address from the Cowtown to Boomtown event held July 13 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Chapman, the director of entrepreneurship and innovation for the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, discussed Omaha’s transformation from a meatpacking center…

  • Innovation Chamber: Increasing the region’s population through immigration (Part 3 of 3)

    Omaha must become a more welcoming place to people who are not from here and people who are different – a solution to the provincial problem from Post One. A great bellwether for this problem is international immigrants. This is a key group not just as a bellwether but also because a high priority because…

  • SPN Out & About: Heading to NYC!

    This week Dusty Davidson of Silicon Prairie News and Tripleseat, Tom Chapman of the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce and myself will board an airplane and travel to New York City for a few days of meetings, meals and reconnecting with old friends and making new ones. We took a similar trip last year to…

  • Paper: ‘Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Lessons from Omaha’

    In preparation for this week’s Cowtown to Boomtown event in Cedar Rapids, Seed Here, the organization that runs the event, asked Tom Chapman, director of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce, to write a paper digesting what he and other individuals, companies, organization and institutions have done to build up the…

  • Watch live: Tom Chapman keynote at Cowtown to Boomtown event

    As discussed yesterday on PrairieCast, the organizers of the Cowtown to Boomtown event series in Cedar Rapids and Iowa City are streaming today’s keynote presentation over the lunch hour. The speaker is Tom Chapman, director of entrepreneurship and innovation at the Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce. Chapman, who is also a regular guest contributor of…

  • PrairieCast with Amanda Styron, Josh Cramer and Tom Chapman (Video)

    On this week’s PrairieCast Andy Brudtkuhl and booked guest Amanda Styron, co-founder of SeedHere in Cedar Rapids to talk about her upcoming “Cowtown to Boomtown” series of events. Instead of just Styron, we had surprise guests Josh Cramer …

  • Innovation Chamber: The importance of positivity and determination

    I have been to all three Big Omaha events, and they have all been special. However, this one particularly resonated for me on two key themes: positivity and determination. Both of these personal characteristics have been suggested as key components that differentiate entrepreneurs from the general public. Positivity At Big Omaha, we had the opportunity…