July 8, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines Earlier today, Mike Templeton, co-founder and community manager for Des Moines-based ScoreYard, announced (above) that the company's social platform designed for sports teams is now open in limited release. Mike gave us a few minutes of his time this morning to tell us about the company… read more
July 8, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha Before his days of management consulting and brand advertising, Ash ElDifrawi dealt with clients subjected to complicated marriages and troubled families. It all began in 1989 at the University of Chicago, where he obtained a doctorate degree in clinical psychology and started training at the Family Institute of Chicago, focusing on marriage and family counseling. “It was the usual stuff – communication… read more
July 7, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha After success with a Mac OS X desktop widget called QuickCal – 10,000+ downloads and mention on the popular blog Lifehacker – Jim Boutcher of Smelly Puppy is expanding his repertoire and is now offering an iPhone app called QuickCal Mobile ($0.99). QuickCal takes natural language expressions describing calendar events or tasks and creates that event or task in iCal, with or without iCal open. For example… read more
July 7, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha Social media is at a high point for further developing the business models of major companies and establishing a new means of communication for people to share their thoughts, experience and location. To celebrate, Social Media Club (SMC) Omaha gathered on June 30 at Nomad Lounge for drinks and conversation around the latest trends… read more
July 6, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha When I spoke with Chad Stansbury a couple weeks ago to learn more about Scriptito, I also asked him to share his thoughts on entrepreneurship. In January, Chad, 40, married with two children, left his full-time job as director of IT at Carlson Hotels Worldwide to create a product he could call his own. He set up an office in his basement and began… read more
July 4, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Niall Harbison is a Dublin, Ireland-based entrepreneur that I've followed for the past few years. I first found him through his video blog, NiallH.com,* where he published short videos with his opinions on social media and entrepreneurship. He dropped out of school at age 16 to become a professional chef and he traveled the world cooking on Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen's yacht for several years. He's since turned his talents to technology entrepreneurship, co-founding both… 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
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