Upcoming events: Startup Weekend KC, MVF with Pete Ricketts and more
Here’s a rundown of upcoming events around the Prairie. Make sure to check out our events page weekly as we’re constantly adding new ones. Midlands Venture Forum Networking Dinner (Omaha) – April 22, 5:30-8 p.m. Featured Speaker: Pete Ricketts (left), founder of Drakon, LLC, an asset management company in Omaha. He previously served as a…
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Here’s a rundown of upcoming events around the Prairie. Make sure to check out our events page weekly as we’re constantly adding new ones.
Note: All event descriptions taken from event websites.
It’s an experience unlike any conference you’ve attended before. Over the course of a single weekend, you get to take time out from your current venture/business and practice building a new one. Think of it like time off the field.
Most ventures fail on Monday morning, which isn’t the point. The point is, you learn new skills, processes, coding frameworks, legal jargon, business practices, spread sheet programs, etc. that you can bring back to your current venture. Startup Weekend is a weekend warrior event where anything goes, and practice is implied. You’re not judged (unless you judge) and learning is paramount.
Join us at the Foundry Co-working for a Startup Weekend Des Moines 30-day followup mixer. Reunite with other Startup Weekend attendees, network with the panelists and speakers, and update the group on how your business has developed since the weekend.
This event is free. Drinks will be provided.
Team leaders – please come prepared to speak briefly on your team’s development. If your team decided to not pursue the concept after the weekend – no worries! – but we still wanna know! I’ll also be sharing plans for the next Startup Weekend Des Moines, the results of the participant survey, and hold a quick 5-minute Q&A session to get your thoughts on how we can make the next event better.
It is time for South Dakotans to have a place to share their passions!
The people at 9 Clouds, Inc. and The Post SD are excited to spearhead the launch of Ignite in the state of South Dakota. As their website states, Ignite is “a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea—and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd.
The first event for Ignite SD is set to launch April 21 at the Cottonwood Bistro in Brookings, SD. Return here in the coming days for more information. For now take a look at this video to learn what Ignite is all about.
Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) featured Speaker: Pete Ricketts
Pete Ricketts is the founder of Drakon, LLC, an asset management company in Omaha. He previously served as a director for the Company from October 1999 to May 2006 before he resigned to campaign for election to the United States Senate for the State of Nebraska.
From 1993 to 2005, Ricketts served in various leadership positions with the Company, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, corporate secretary, president of the private client division, senior vice president of strategy and business development, senior vice president of product development and senior vice president of marketing.
Ricketts is also the chairman of the Omaha board of Children’s Scholarship Fund. He is also a director of Chicago Baseball Holding LLC (the holding company for the Chicago Cubs major League Baseball franchise), a director and president of the Platte Institute for Economic Research, Inc. and an advisory board member for the Alumni Capital Network, a private equity firm based in New York. He serves on the global advisory board for the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, as a member of the board of directors of Bellevue University and as a member of the board of trustees for the American Enterprise Institute.
Ricketts received an M.B.A. in marketing and finance and a bachelor’s degree in biology from the University of Chicago.
This story is part of the AIM Institute Archive on Silicon Prairie News. AIM gifted SPN to the Nebraska Journalism Trust in January 2023. Learn more about SPN’s origin »
From 1993 to 2005, Ricketts served in various leadership positions with the Company, including executive vice president and chief operating officer, corporate secretary, president of the private client division, senior vice president of strategy and business development, senior vice president of product development and senior vice president of marketing.
