December 9, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
LaVista "We need to out invent and out entrepreneur the rest of the world," Jim Clifton, Gallup's chairman and CEO Jim Clifton said to the participants of the Entrepreneur Acceleration System (EAS) in Thursday's opening video remarks at the Impact Summit. "That's why what you do is so important… that's a touchdown. Nebraska gets better and America gets better." The Impact Summit celebrated the culmination of the inaugural … read more
December 2, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
LaVista Gallup's Entrepreneur Acceleration System (EAS), a small business mentoring initiative, will hold its first EAS Impact Summit from 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday, Dec. 8 at the Embassy Suites Omaha-La Vista/Hotel & Conference Center (12520 Westport Parkway) in La Vista, Neb. With the help of Nebraska Gov. Dave Heineman, Gallup will honor participants … read more
April 18, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
LaVista Videos from this past February's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship have been released by Nebraska Entrepreneur. This year's summit had an increased tech and creative presence on the speaker lineup which included, among others, our own co-founder, Dusty Davidson. To view the full event schedule, see our post: "Schedule: 2011 Nebraska… read more
February 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
LaVista For those of you at today's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship or those of you who are curious about who's speaking and what topics are being discussed, you can find the event schedule below (from nebraskaentrepreneur.com/2011-summit). And if you're tweeting about the Summit today, use the hashtag #NESummit. read more
February 16, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
LaVista Hopefully this post isn't too late for you to take the day off or make plans for a short road trip to La Vista next Friday, February 25th to attend this year's Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship. With an increased tech and creative presence on the speaker lineup (which includes our own co-founder, Dusty Davidson), we're especially excited about the event. read more
February 18, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
LaVista On Wednesday, Yahoo! opened its new 180,000-square-foot data center in LaVista, located just south of Omaha. Yahoo! co-founder Jerry Yang was on hand for the celebration. In 1994, Yang, along with his business partner David Filo, founded Yahoo! while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University. The Nebraska data center is servicing Internet traffic around the world, and once Phase II is completed, it will be one of the company's largest data center facilities. Currently… read more