Kansas City Nick Seguin is leaving his role as manager of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation later this month. He made that decision public today in a blog post. Seguin has served in his current position at the Kansas City, Mo.-based foundation since November of 2010 but is returning to Dynamit on a full-time basis. Seguin helped found Dynamit, a Columbus, Ohio-based digital agency … read more

Lincoln This spring, Croplife awarded the Aphid Speed Scout app the “Top Best Mobile App for Agriculture,” and the winners couldn’t be happier. “It’s an honor, it was really exciting when that came through and it was picked for number one,” said Wayne Ohnesorg, Extension Educator in Madison County at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. Ohnesorg came up with the idea for the app, and team members Mark Hendricks and Ruchi Agrawal developed it. The team says the free app will … read more

Omaha Karen Linder, cytotechnologist, Nebraska Angels investor and entrepreneur, has added published author to her credentials. The Women of Berkshire Hathaway: Lessons from Warren Buffet’s Female CEOs and Directors, published by John Wiley and Sons, debuts this weekend at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder’s meeting in Omaha. It was actually last year’s meeting … read more

Lincoln Calvin Pappas, founder of internet privacy startup SelectOut, recently recounted his experience of spending a summer in Silicon Valley as an intern and then returning to Lincoln, Nebraska to pursue his entrepreneurial endeavor. "(Silicon Valley) has everything you could possibly want," Pappas (left) said in an Ignite Lincoln presentation in January. "They offered me several jobs to drop out of school and stay there, but I decided to come back here to Lincoln. … read more

Des Moines In a personal blog post on Friday, Dwolla technical co-founder and CTO Shane Neuerburg announced that he is no longer working for the Des Moines-based online cash transfer startup. "It has been one heck of a roller coaster ride over the last (almost) 4 years," Neuerburg wrote. "What started as a project in my town home basement in the night time hours after my full time job, turned into a force … read more

Des Moines We have a second "studentpreneur" story to share in the span of a couple of weeks. On Thursday, the Des Moines Register wrote about Jake Taylor, a 15-year-old who took a mobile app from prototype to profit as part of a class project. Taylor, a freshman in Earlham, a town of about 1,300 that is 30 miles west of Des Moines, is the creator of FrostFly, a full-screen web browsing app available in the Apple App Store. While it functions like a … read more

Des Moines Des Moines resident James Erwin (above) has reason to believe you should never underestimate what you can do with your lunch hour. Last August, Erwin discovered just that after responding to a post on Reddit, a popular social news site. Erwin's story – one that's currently making its way around the web – is told in detail in this month's issue of Wired (above). Titled "How One Response … read more

Council Bluffs A recent story in The Daily Nonpareil points out Thomas Jefferson High School sophomore Anthony Rea is not your average 16-year-old. While most teens are pushing their parents for a later curfew or asking for a car, Rea was figuring out how to make his school lunch menu and activity announcements more accessible through the creation of a web app. The app, TJHS Daily, can be found in the Google Web Store as a free Google Chrome extension. Students, teachers and … read more