Omaha Last November, Brett Atlas spent 45 minutes driving around a Chicago cemetery in search of his grandfather’s resting spot before he sent this text: "there should be an app for this." Within moments after Atlas hit send, Scott Kroeger responded, and upon Atlas' return to Omaha, the pair co-founded RestingSpot, a service that seeks to identify and guide users to the precise GPS location for every memorial site in cemeteries around the … read more

Omaha When Paul Yoder was younger, his mother would ask him: "Why aren't your chores done? Do you think elves are going to come and do them for you?" He learned then that elves wouldn’t do the work for him but five months ago, he built DonorElf, a donor management service that defies fables and does nearly all of the work of non-profit bookkeeping for him. "I liked the idea of elves doing the mundane … read more

Iowa City The inaugural BarCamp ICR was held on Saturday at the Iowa City Public Library. We couldn't have had a better event! We met over 100 attendees and our day was extended hours longer due to many more people wanting to talk than we could have imagined. Just three minutes after opening up the grid for talks, we had the entire schedule filled for the day. Our deepest thanks goes out to our attendees, speakers, sponsors, organizers and volunteers … read more

Lincoln As the inaugural Don’t Panic Labs summer internship program drew to a close with presentations on Monday at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Kauffman Center, it became increasingly clear the extent to which the interns had run the asylum for the last three months. If it wasn’t evident by their sheer numbers alone — Don’t Panic labs … read more

Omaha As anyone who's had the minor misfortune of attending a party at my apartment can attest, I, against my better judgement and others' protestations, enjoy masquerading as a DJ. And, although I possess just one form of low-grade DJ software and zero skill jockeying discs, I get strangely territorial about challengers to my throne at the turntable. Well, I usually do. But at a get-together earlier this summer, I uncharacteristically — but, it should be noted, quite courteously — ceded DJ responsibility … read more

Overland Park RAZ Mobile, a Kansas City-based startup still in stealth mode, has raised $150,000, according to an SEC Form D filing on August 4, "Our intent is to revolutionize mobile fundraising," RAZ co-founder Bradley Kropf said in an email today, "overcoming the significant faults that are prevalent with 'app-based' solutions and carrier-billed short … read more

Sioux Falls Infographics are all the rage, and in the coming months, the team at 9 Clouds hopes to capitalize on their popularity with the infographics company, Lemonly. Defined by Wikipedia as a "graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge," they've been popping up everywhere lately: news headlines, daily blogs, company blogs, blog categories and business plans. In fact, it's one startup's core purpose … read more

Kansas City Five and Fifty on Wednesday announced a partnership with 4INFO, the largest SMS ad network in the U.S., that will enable the Overland Park, Kan.-based company … read more