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  • White House Demo Day announces Year of the Startup among SBA prize winners

    White House Demo Day announces Year of the Startup among SBA prize winners

    Omaha based startup house program Year Of The Startup has been included as 1 of 80 winners in the second annual Growth Accelerator Fund Competition. “This award will allow us to have a runway as we continue our expansion,” said Sebastian Hunt, Founder of Year Of The Startup. Founded in 2014, Year Of The Startup began…

  • Unify the Prairie: Omaha’s YOTS visits KC’s Hacker House [Video]

    Unify the Prairie: Omaha’s YOTS visits KC’s Hacker House [Video]

    Omaha-based Year of the Startup recently took a weekend road trip down to Kansas City to introduce themselves to the current residents of the Kansas City Startup Village Homes for Hackers. SPN sent Aaron Kessler of Candlefire Films to capture their experience. In the video Sabastian Hunt, founder of Year of the Startup, explains his vision…

  • Night Life Transit wins $8,500 at Get Started Omaha

    Night Life Transit wins $8,500 at Get Started Omaha

    Night Life Transit, an Omaha-based startup that provides bus service for urban night life hotspots, won $8,500 last night at Get Started Omaha, an event put on by COX Business at the Holland Performing Arts Center. The startup, founded by Eric Burns, plans to begin service June 5th in the Omaha area. Burns is currently…

  • Year of the Startup residents move in to Omaha accelerator home

    Year of the Startup residents move in to Omaha accelerator home

    Four entrepreneurs are moving into a Midtown Omaha home Wednesday as they kick off a yearlong, in-home accelerator where they will launch and scale their businesses. Year of the Startup features a mentor program, 25 guest speaker nights and a savings requirement…

  • Year of the Startup chooses four for inaugural residential accelerator

    Starting Sept. 3, four young entrepreneurs will spend 365 days together in a Midtown Omaha home as part of residential accelerator Year of the Startup. Sabastian Hunt, organizer of Year of the Startup, hoped to get as many as 50 applications but ended up with 16. “But our list of finalists has exceeded our expectations…

  • Year of the Startup takes on alternative house-based accelerator

    Sabastian Hunt is in the market to rent a house in Midtown Omaha. But the recent University of Nebraska at Omaha grad isn’t in the market for himself—he’s looking for a group of four to six entrepreneurs. Hunt is trying something different. An accelerator without some traditional means: no funding, no offices. The funding comes…