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Lincoln group to unveil 1,500-square-foot Nikola Tesla mural
Happy birthday, Nikola Tesla! The father of alternating current, radar, wireless communication—and just about everything electrical you can think of—is coming to Lincoln. Sort of. On July 12, Lincoln’s Turbine Flats Project, a collaborative startup incubator, will show off what it says will be the world’s largest mural of the Serbian inventor. Local artist Amos…
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Lincoln ‘Idea Community’ Turbine Flats fosters expansion, collaboration
The Turbine Flats Project is an “idea community” in Lincoln that began in 2008 with 22 people and 11,500 square feet. Today, some 75 employees work in the space, which has undergone one addition and is in the midst of a second. In December we covered ISoft Data Systems and the company’s CEO, Matthew Wegener.…
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For ISoft founder, part-time salvage yard job leads to thriving tech startup
While studying electrical engineering at The University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Matthew Wegener had a part time job at a salvage yard where he worked on cars and poured concrete. During his time there, Wegener realized the salvage yard needed an inventory management system. He made a proposal to build the system for them on evenings and…
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Prairie Moves: John Gustafson, Agile Sports, Oxide Design & more
The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development 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 info@siliconprairienews.com. And if…