Omaha Following the conclusion of last Friday's Invest Nebraska East-2-West New Venture Competition at the Old Mattress Factory, I spoke with the winner of the event, Scott Kleeb of Energy Pioneer Solutions. I asked him about the backstory of his new endeavor (if Kleeb's name rings a bell, it's because he's ran for public office twice in the last four years, most recently in 2008 for one of Nebraska's two… read more

Omaha As I wrote in a post earlier today, BarCamp Omaha 2010 was an exclamation point to a great week on the Silicon Prairie. After startup funding and acquisition news this past week, we inside the Silicon Prairie News office were riding a high, and Dusty Davidson, co-founder of Silicon Prairie News was hustling like the rest of BarCamp Omaha team… read more

Omaha BarCamp Omaha opened things up last night with a party at the same venue the un-conference is being held at today, Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street) in Omaha's Old Market district. Local mobile app developer Andy Peters, co-founder of Ninth Division, doubled as a professional photographer last night and took some great party shots. Below are a few and then head on over to his Flickr account… read more

Omaha BarCamp Omaha kicked off this morning around 9 p.m. as just about 200 gathered at Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones Street) in Omaha's Old Market district. From 9 to 10, attendees enjoyed some hot drinks, donuts, muffins and more while those who felt compelled to give a talk wrote the title of their talk on a sticky note and stuck it to the "schedule board." read more

National Entrepreneurs' Day is in full swing and I've already read many posts, tweets, and comments of how people are celebrating. Celebrations include a pitch to investors, giving away Tim Ferris' "The 4-Hour Work Week" to employees, and actually taking time off from work (which is about the complete opposite of entrepreneurial, but well-deserved). For all the details on today's celebration check out my post earlier today: "Celebrate the first-ever National Entrepreneurs’ Day…today!" To understand the complete story of today's event you have to go to the source of this movement, David Hauser… read more

From the Silicon Prairie to the Silicon Valley and all around the world, today is a day for entrepreneurs to celebrate. And President Barack Obama says so! It's true, November 14th through November 20th has… read more

Omaha About 70 people gathered this past Wednesday evening at Creighton University to listen to pitches from students following their year-long participation in Creighton's Bioscience Entrepreneurship Program. Titled BioVenture 2010, the third annual event had the student groups present their business plans and posters for the projects… read more