Omaha Haven't had time to study up on all of this year's Big Omaha speakers? Not to worry; we can help you cram. We've combed the world wide interwebs to come up with a couple of stories, interviews, videos or otherwise noteworthy nuggets on each of our Big Omaha presenters so that you can brush up before you sit down at KANEKO on Friday morning. … read more

Omaha Sarah Lacy is a senior editor at TechCrunch, the world's largest blog on tech entrepreneurship, and the author of the critically acclaimed "Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good." After more than a decade covering business in Silicon Valley, Lacy decided to follow the flow of capital into the developing world. She bootstrapped a two-year, 40-week journey looking for the best entrepreneurs Silicon Valley had never heard of. The result … read more

Omaha The list of firms, foundations and other partners pulling together for the Startup America Partnership is impressive stuff, with Google, American Express, Microsoft, Cisco and others getting involved to help push forward job creation in the United States. The basis for the partnership is to serve as a linkage for start ups, ramp ups and speed ups – as they coin them – with mentors, capital, talent, services, expertise and customers. The partnership … read more

Omaha Dan Martell lives and breathes entrepreneurship. In fact, Martell is pretty sure his parents believe he is un-hirable. Martell is the co-founder of Flowtown, a serial angel investor and on the board of Startup Weekend. As Dan says, "If you're an entrepreneur, I'm your biggest fan." He's also very proud to be Canadian. The topic of Martell's talk was "5 Unconventional Steps to Entrepreneurship." Here are some highlights: Martell started … read more

Omaha Samasource is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing "digital work" to people living in poverty. Leila Janah, CEO of Samasource, discussed her start as a social entrepreneur and told the story of how Samasource provides opportunity to those in developing nations. … read more

Omaha We're baaacck. With a little lunch and networking under our belts, we've returned to our little nook in KANEKO and are posted up at the computer to bring you a live blog of the afternoon session at Big Omaha 2011. On deck this afternoon: talks from Dan Martell of Flowtown, Erich Broksas of the Startup America Partnership, Shervin Pishevar of the Social Gaming Network and Sarah Lacy of TechCrunch.  read more

Omaha The mission of the Cheezburger Network, according to its CEO, Ben Huh, is a straightforward one: "Make everyone in the world happy for five minutes a day." In delivering the opening speech of Big Omaha 2011, Huh certainly achieved that aim himself, providing a blend of humor and motivation in telling his story. A handful of the highlights… read more

Omaha I promised myself I wouldn't do this, but I can't resist joining the live-blogging fray. Silicon Prairie News plans to deliver post-speech recaps of every talk this year at Big Omaha, but I've made a decision in the 11th hour to supplement that coverage with a good, old fashioned live blog. So here are the sights and sounds from the first morning session of Big Omaha. …  read more