September 3, 2010 by Steven Adams
Omaha MedLetters, a new interactive and convenient tool for physicians, is about to become available online. The company was created to help physicians more effectively… read more
September 1, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Bumpr, a social networking platform with a goal to "simplify digital life," launched into public beta last night. As of now, users can integrate their Twitter and Facebook feeds into the website, and in the coming months the team plans to integrate the top 20 social networks. When fully developed, its creators see it as "a social network hub." "The idea here is that… read more
August 31, 2010 by Dusty Davidson
Omaha Omaha-based travel advertising company Sojern announced today that they have secured an additional $9 million in venture capital from Focus Ventures, Trident Ventures and Norwest Venture Partners. This new round of funding brings the total amount raised to $28.3 million… read more
August 18, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Omaha-based Proxibid, a live auction webcasting service, delivered some exciting news yesterday with the announcement of their appointment of Ryan Downs, Omaha-native and former senior vice president of Worldwide Operations for PayPal, as company president. In short, Proxibid provides live webcasts of auctions to allow registered bidders unable to attend in-person to still participate in the auction. As of late, they're on a roll with high-interest auctions, such as Bernie Madoff's auction last November and the upcoming auction of "Real Housewife" Teresa Giudice later this month. A recent Wall Street Journal article reported that Proxibid… read more
August 16, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Thanks to a tweet announcing his visit to Omaha this past weekend, Eric Ries, author of the blog Startup Lessons Learned and creator of the Lean Startup methodology, found time to meet up with 10 of us at the Old Mattress Factory on Saturday. Ries, who spent much of this past year on the speaking circuit, is planning to do just the opposite this coming year… read more
August 16, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
A few weeks ago I spoke with Mike Trotzke and Brad Wisler, two of the co-founders of SproutBox. SproutBox, based in Bloomington, Indiana, is an incubator consisting of product developers, business experts and creatives who invest their talents in high growth startups. SproutBox recently partnered with Startup Weekend, and with events held in Omaha and Des Moines, we wanted to learn more about what this partnership means. read more
August 12, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha You may remember that Jimmy Winter's side project a year and a half ago is his current startup, RockDex, which came about from his company, Music Arsenal. Winter is back at it with a new side project, the Power of Howard, a website displaying the analytical power of RockDex by measuring the internet power of radio personality Howard Stern. Powerful, huh? Indeed. On July 29, Winter was interviewed about the website by Howard 100 News… read more
August 10, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Des Moines In 2008, Nathan Heinrich (left) of Des Moines and business partner Aaron Donsbach of Seattle, Washington, registered Twitter accounts for nearly all U.S. ZIP Codes. At the time, they had recognized a problem with location-based communication and felt that a combination of the Twitter platform and ZIP Codes would provide an answer. Heinrich and Donsbach have gone through a few different solutions in the past two years, but most recently they launched TwitZip. They've also expanded their team… read more
As we discussed bringing nationally known speakers to Iowa for this event, Christian Renaud, pointed out that to be a legitimately Green conference, we should be mindful of our own carbon footprint.- Leann Jacobson, President of the Technology Association of Iowa, Heartland GreenUp to focus on IT industry's impact on environment