To all of our readers, we want to thank you for the ways in which you have helped build our community over the last few months!
We’re excited for what’s to come over the last few months of 2008 and what’s in store for 2009!
With that, enjoy the time with friends and family and we look forward to seeing you soon!
The entire Silicon Prairie News team
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Congrats to Adam Nielsen and his shop GoodTwin Design for the excellent story in this week’s Omaha World Herald featuring him as a “Mover”…
Shoot Adam a note of congratulations and find out more about what types of projects he can help with!
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You might recognize Amy and Marty Wolff from when they were on season three of NBC’s the Biggest Loser. Shortly after the show ended, the two married, and moved back to the Omaha area to start a fitness company.
Not long after, they connected with entrepreneur Brian Kenny, CEO and founder of the weight loss social network, WatchMeMelt.com. Kenny describes WatchMeMelt.com as .. “the first people powered video sharing community focused on weight loss and fitness related entertainment tools and groups… basically its Youtube meets Myspace, with diet and fitness tools”.
Marty & Amy hope the site will help and encourage the millions of overweight folks, to connect and share their success stories…
This is an outlet that allows everyone to share their goals, how much they want to weigh, the person that they want to be and then be held accountable by a larger audience, just like the Biggest Loser
WatchMeMelt was recently featured at the TechCrunch50 conference, with a booth in the DemoPit.
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We have a follow up to a startup we’re following called Hordit.com
Hordit is gathering a great deal of chatter lately and some new announcements have come out this week which we wanted to share with you, the SPN community…
Hordit has opened its beta program! Now anyone can create an account on Hordit - no beta code required!
The easiest way is to go here, and work through the required fields, then invite your friends and family to try out Hordit.
Also, for those who are into company schwag, as an extra incentive, the top 15 recruiters between now and December 19th will earn a fashionable Hordit t-shirt!
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American Educational Telecommunications (AET) has recently opened offices in the Scott Technology Center specifically to incubate CentaMed, LLC.
CentaMed is a collaborative effort with the Peter Kiewit Institute focused on enhancing medical devices through adaptation of industrial technology which is currently available.
By combining the resources of the Scott Technology Center and resources available at the Peter Kiewit Institute, both AET and CentaMed enjoy the position of being in the heart of the Midwest’s most advanced facilities.
More information and an interview will follow soon…
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Just a quick reminder on a couple of events this week…
Tonight is the 2nd Afterwork Party at the Magnolia Hotel, co-sponsored by Silicon Prairie News and Brent Crampton. This event is open to all, so stop by after work for a drink and mingle with the area’s creatives, enterpreneurs and other interesting people.
After Work Party
Magnolia Hotel Lounge - 1615 Howard St.
5pm - 9pm
For the entrepreneurs and inventors out there, Thursday night @ Nomad is the last Cornstalks meeting of the year. This is an informal meeting of people interested or involved with high-growth, early stage companies. If you’d like to mingle with the Omaha startup and technology crowd, stop by on Thursday!
Cornstalks
Nomad Lounge - 1013 Jones St.
7pm-9pm
Stop on by to either of these events, we’d love to see you there!
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On Saturday, Jeff was a guest on the weekly Grow Omaha radio show, talking about all things Silicon Prairie News. For those of you that either don’t wake up early enough on Saturday’s, don’t have a radio, or anything in between, we’ve included the SPN segment below. Enjoy!
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If you’d rather download the MP3 and listen to it, you can do that here. To listen to the entire show, or to listen to past Grow Omaha shows, visit the Grow Omaha Archive.
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This week, people from around the world are organizing events and promoting entrepreneurship in the first annual Global Entrepreneurship Week.
Global Entrepreneurship Week is a civil-society initiative to promote the entrepreneurial aspirations of young people everywhere. During this week, partner organizations will conduct a range of activities designed to inspire, connect, mentor and engage young people, to help them acquire the knowledge, skills, networks and values needed to grow innovative and sustainable enterprises.
Here’s a few links to get you started…
Wikipedia - Global Entrepreneurship Week
Kauffman Foundation - Global Entrepreneurship Week
And here are a few events going on this week to let you get out and mingle with fellow entrepreneurs…
Thursday, November 20th @ Nomad Lounge (1013 Jones) at 7PM
Cornstalks is a networking and light education group for early stage, high growth companies in the Omaha region. This is an informal meet-up at Nomad Lounge, to spark conversation and dialogue around entrepreneurship and innovation. If you are interested in entrepreneurship, please join us!
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Kuddos to Stefanie Monge for her coverage in Monday’s OWH on the recent Highlight Midwest Conference which Silicon Prairie News was a part of. The story gives a good overview of the event as well as some quotes from Bo Fishback of the Kauffman Foundation.
“The support of the Kauffman Foundation is the key to “eventually leverage the community (of entrepreneurs) to do real things, like start companies,” Dusty Davidson said.
Fishback encouraged entrepreneurs in the region to take advantage of resources available through the foundation.
“We live and breathe this entrepreneurship stuff,” he said. “Our doors are always open.”"
Here’s a link to the rest of the story…
Enjoy and let’s keep the momentum going!
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So after hearing lots of buzz about this company called “MadGringo“, SPN had to investigate…
After sending a note to learn more, we found out that “Mad Gringo” is the voice in your head that rises up three days into your vacation and tells you to stay on vacation. Find a way to stay in Mexico or on that tropical island. Just make it happen! Don’t go back to work!
Greg Chambers had that experience in Mexico and returned to Omaha, determined to find a way to satisfy that desire. He decide to pursue an interest in clothing, quit his banking job and developed Mad Gringo’s apparel line. Mad Gringo is now available online and in approximately 70 retail stores nationwide.
We had the chance to sit down with MadGringo’s Founder, Greg Chambers and Brian Smith, whose been involved in a variety of projects in Omaha over the years for a in-depth interview.
Check out the interview below and as a special bonus for SPN readers, when you’re finished head over to MadGringo and use the special coupon code of “mad4spn” to take 50% off all t-shirts!
Thanks MadGringo Team for a great interview and we look forward to following up on your upcoming successes!
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