April 18, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Kansas City Zaarly, the proximity-based, real-time, buyer-powered marketplace born out of Startup Weekend Los Angeles this past February and now with significant offices in Kansas City, released a new and enhanced web presence on Friday. Previously, the startup was collecting emails for future launches in a series of city-specific standard LaunchRock … read more
April 18, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Behold the power of the T-shirt. It was fitting in a way that CraftWig, the only team to don matching T-shirts for Startup Weekend Kansas City final demonstrations on Sunday, walked away from the bizperc office space as the winner of SWKC. CraftWig, an online community for crafters that offers in-depth tutorials, shopping lists, price comparison and sharing, finished first among the eight teams that participated … read more
April 18, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha If you're a foursquare user who checked-in to a venue this past Saturday you may have been surprised to learn that it was Foursquare Day, the second annual social media holiday celebrating, of course, all things foursquare and taking place on April 16 (4/16). With the check-in, users earned a Foursqare Day Badge to add to their virtual badge library. In the days leading up to the holiday, foursquare released the video above to thank users for their dedication and contributions to their mobile… read more
April 18, 2011 by Geoff Wood
Indianola This past Saturday I had the privilege to speak at Startup Storm, a first of its kind event put on by Macy Koch, a senior at Simpson College. The event, billed as "teaching and supporting innovation and entrepreneurial development," featured an opening keynote by Nathan T. Wright, founder of Lava Row and co-founder of Uppward, a closing keynote from Ben Milne, founder of Dwolla, and presentations in between by Donni Alley of Alley Design… read more
April 18, 2011 by Brittany Mascio
La Vista 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
April 17, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Join us around 6:30 p.m. for live-streaming of demo pitches from the eight teams at Startup Weekend Kansas City. read more
April 17, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Kansas City Our editor, Michael Stacy, is both competing in and covering his first Startup Weekend at the moment and while he's currently doing the former with his team, My … read more
April 17, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Kansas City Quoth great Kevin McCallister (because when isn’t a Home Alone quote at least marginally appropriate?): This is it. Don’t get scared now. Just a few hours stand between Startup Weekend Kansas City participants and their final presentations, which get underway at 6:30 p.m. here at the bizperc office space. Rest assured, “getting scared” won’t be a problem here. Teams seem far more excited than apprehensive, thanks to a busy second day of Startup Weekend on Saturday. Folks hit … read more
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