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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…

  • 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.”…

  • 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…

  • Megan Hunt & Eric Downs set to open CAMP coworking space

    Being self-employed, Megan Hunt and Eric Downs began businesses within the comfort of their own homes. Hunt – a bridal designer, blogger and best friend – started her vintage felt and button design company Princess Lasertron out of a floor-to-ceiling windows apartment in a renovated high school. She then transported her business into an 8-foot-8…

  • 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…

  • Cheering on the city, ‘I live in Omaha’ celebrates its one-year anniversary

    Among Omaha’s array of contemporary art exhibitions, growing outlets for entrepreneurship and emerging nightlife scene, residents might find it difficult to sum up their liking of the city in 120 characters or less. One website, however, is celebrating its one-year anniversary of spreading the word of Omaha residents as to why this is an exceptional…

  • Big Omaha 2010: The Big Schedule

    Attending or not attending Big Omaha 2010, we hope you’ll join us for either our Thursday or Friday night party. In addition, the Social Media Club of Omaha is hosting a Tweetup prior to Thursday’s opening party, bringing the total to three open to the public events this year. Here’s the run down with links…

  • Startup Weekend Omaha – The Teams

    Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off last night with nearly forty people gathered at What Cheer to pitch ideas and form teams. Twenty ideas were pitched, and from those the following eight teams emerged: UndergroundOmaha.com will be an entertainment hub for local independent musicians and fans to watch video and socialize. Confurrent.com will be a tool…

  • Startup Weekend Omaha kicks off tomorrow, two tickets up for grabs

    The first-ever Startup Weekend Omaha kicks off at 6 p.m. tomorrow evening at What Cheer. There’s still time to register ($45), or if you’re on the fence, we’ve been kindly given two…

  • First-ever Startup Weekend Omaha to be held March 19-21

    With Startup Weekend Des Moines kicking off in a few hours (and some in Omaha kicking themselves for not making the trip), I think this post is just in time. Startup…