Omaha It's Big Omaha season, can you tell? It's that time of year when we put our small staff on overdrive to maintain content production and manage one of our premier events. The regular volume of posts (3-4 per day) has decreased, our email reply times have slowed and phone calls aren't being returned as quickly, but you can be sure that we're still here, continuously motivated by the community around us. This week, you'll see the volume increase again as our … read more

Although I was unable to attend this year's Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting on account of being out of town for LessConf, I've been catching up with the coverage of the event. One part of the meeting I'm particularly interested in learning about, as I'm sure are many others, was the way in which Warren Buffett addressed the David Sokol situation. From what I've read, I think a Fortune "Street Sweep" blog read more

Every day I comb through my Google Reader reading sites like Hacker News and others, and star articles that are especially interesting about startups, entrepreneurship and miscellany. read more

Omaha We're in the midst of finalizing speaker times and specific party details, but with the event less than two weeks away we wanted to supply attendees with a schedule of activities (speaker times coming soon) and non-attendees with the details of the Big Omaha party circuit. | Big Omaha 2011 Schedule: Wednesday, May 11: 8:00 p.m. - Opening Party presented by Rackspace Thursday, May 12 - 8:00 a.m. - Doors open, registration and … read more

Just two weeks before Silicon Prairie News holds its own conference, Big Omaha, I'm stepping away from the craziness in our Omaha office to attend LessConf, a 250-attendee event in Atlanta for "anyone involved in web startups." I arrived in the Big Peach late Thursday night and will be hanging out here until Saturday afternoon, sadly missing the closing party later that night. By the time I leave, however, I will… read more