September 23, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Jeff Raikes' professed allegiance to Nebraska is more than just lip service. As Raikes, a native Nebraskan who lives in Washington, delivered a keynote in La Vista last Friday, the day before the University of Nebraska and University of Washington were set to face off in football, he assured the crowd that he's a Husker fan through and through. … read more
September 22, 2011 by Michael Stacy
San Francisco Following closely on the heels of West Coast wins by two other startups with Midwest ties, Call Me Meeting is looking to author another Silicon Prairie success story this week at the Twilio Conference in San Francisco. Call Me Meeting, which was founded in April at Startup Weekend Kansas City and took … read more
September 21, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Following the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce's Tuesday announcement of its "Big 5" ideas for improving Kansas City, a quartet of the Chamber's top dogs sat down to discuss that quintet of ideas with Nick Haines for Friday's episode of Kansas City Week In Review. Joining Haines were: Jim Heeter, Chamber president and CEO; Greg Graves … read more
September 21, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Jeff Raikes resides in Seattle and has spent three-plus decades on the West Coast, but take some time to pick Raikes' brain and you'll find he's still a Nebraska boy in many ways. Raikes, formerly a manager at Apple Computer and senior executive at Microsoft is now the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and, as of 2008 is the namesake … read more
September 20, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Cedar Falls T8 Webware today introduced a new product designed to give consumers a better understanding — or grip, as it were — of their personal financial picture. Grip, unveiled at FinovateFall 2011, is an app that aggregates a consumers' balance and transaction data from an unlimited number of domestic financial institutions into a single … read more
September 19, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Lincoln Patrick Smith spoke at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce's most recent "Face the Chamber" luncheon on Wednesday, and Nebraska Entrepreneur was on hand to film Smith's talk. Smith, a principal and COO at Nebraska Global, delivered a talk on the investment landscape in Nebraska as a whole and on the activities at his company in particular … read more
September 19, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha An application designed to "organize restaurants' schedules the easy way" will celebrate its beta launch tonight at the tech-centric restaurant that has provided the app's training ground. CheckASchedule, the product of an Omaha-based team headed by Greg Mahloch, will mark its formal introduction to the world … read more
September 18, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Startup Weekend Omaha concludes tonight with a whopping 18 teams pitching their products to a panel of four judges and the crowd gathered at the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Mammel Hall. Doors open at 6 p.m. for dinner, followed by presentations at 7. And if you can't be among the crowd at Mammel Hall? Not to worry; we have you covered. We'll stream … read more
September 17, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha The Saturday midday check-in at Startup Weekend Omaha recently wrapped up, and 18 teams are back at work, scattered throughout the University of Nebraska at Omaha's Mammel Hall, preparing minimum viable products for Sunday night's final presentations. Friday's opening pitch session saw 51 ideas proposed, and those were whittled down to … read more
September 16, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Fall has, um, fallen here in Omaha. Sure, autumn is still technically a week away. But brisk weather had Jeff and Dusty all bundled up and buzzing about — what else? — the weather for episode No. 106 of the Weekly Wrap-Up, or the "first day of freezing cold" episode, as Dusty dubbed it. Although temperatures were cold, the WWU was anything but, as the co-hosts' conversation was nothing short of sizzling. They even hatched an idea for next week's show that you'll probably want to go ahead … read more
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