May 3, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha The day after MindMixer this week announced its $4 million Series B round, its co-founder and CEO Nick Bowden sat down on Bloomberg TV to talk about his company's product. "The Washington D.C. school district is using the tool to gather feedback from parents on a controversial issue of school closures," Bowden told Bloomberg's Pimm Fox. "Which actually resulted in a ... read more
May 3, 2013 by Megan Bannister
Des Moines Ecommerce startup Goodsmiths today introduced Swipe, an app that allows its online shop owners to accept credit card payments offline while keeping their online inventory synced. "It's a totally new product that honestly for us, for Goodsmiths, it's going to disrupt the craft fairs, art shows, farmers' markets … read more
May 3, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Flywheel, the Omaha startup on a mission to make web hosting easy for designers, is in month two of its private beta, with more than 150 design firms and freelancers using its product. "We're a hosting company, but we also look at ourselves as a software company," co-founder Rick Knudtson said. "We're trying to solve problems for creative … read more
May 3, 2013 by Joe Stych
Des Moines For Paloma Velazquez, writing HTML is a pretty big shift from her previous writing experience. Last May she graduated from Grinnell College with degrees in English and political science. At the time, she was working as a communications coordinator for BitMethod with their app, Change. But after winning a two-year scholarship for Treehouse—a web development education tool—and teaching herself to code, Velazquez recently landed a position as a front-end developer at Des Moines' Webspec Design. … read more
May 2, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Social media news isn't a norm on SPN, but when Nebraska's best-known resident joins Twitter, it becomes news, at least for Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune and of course, Mashable, among others. Warren Buffett this morning signed up for Twitter, and during a live video chat with Fortune, he sent his first tweet: Warren is in the house. … read more
May 2, 2013 by Fred Bauters
Kansas City Numbers, analytics and reports can statically tick away on an entrepreneur's computer with the hope that they will provide insight on a startup's growth and trajectory. But what if the milestones motivating startups were dynamic? Rodrigo Neri, co-founder of Kansas City education app-maker Instin, recounted … read more
May 2, 2013 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Omaha's Warren Buffett is "leaning in." Motivated by Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg's "Lean In" movement and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer's HR policies, at 11 a.m. today, Buffett will take questions via Twitter on the topic of women and work. He'll answer the questions in a live Fortune video event that aims to promote his latest essay, "Warren Buffett is Bullish on…Women," published this morning on the magazine's website. The billionaire investor … read more
May 2, 2013 by Megan Bannister
Prairie Village Kansas City area tech company Netchemia today announced that San Francisco-based growth-equity firm Mainsail Partners is behind the company's recent $6.5 million round of financing. The 12-year-old company company last month closed the round and now it plans to continue expanding through a partnership with Mainsail. Aside from an undisclosed number of angel investors, this round is the first time … read more
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