Midlands Venture Forum

  • TD Ameritrade founder Joe Ricketts reflects on entrepreneurship

    Earlier this year, Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), an Omaha-based non-profit dedicated to creating regional support for entrepreneurs, had the pleasure of hosting one of Omaha’s most well-known businessmen J. Joe Ricketts, founder of TD Ameritrade. Ricketts directed his talk to entrepreneurs as he explored what constitutes an entrepreneur and how to successfully run a business…

  • MVF Entrepreneur Networking Reception this Thursday, August 19

    In our event post earlier this week, we left out another quality event happening this Thursday, August 19. Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), a nonprofit that strives to create regional support for entrepreneurs, is holding an Entrepreneur Networking Reception…

  • David Milligan & Kevin West give the rundown on patents

    At last month’s Midlands Venture Forum gathering, David Milligan and Kevin West, both patent attorneys at Advent IP, gave a 25-minute presentation on patents. In his opening remarks, Milligan introduced their talk with a one-sentence summary. “We’re basically going to go through what we would consider kind of an assessment of…

  • WordPress Happy Hour, foursquare Meetup, Beer & Blog and MVF

    Here are four events hitting Des Moines and Omaha this week, starting with the…

  • MVF: Chris Best explains how appraisers value a business

    Midlands Venture Forum (MVF) continued its series of educational events on March 11 with a presentation from Chris Best, an appraiser for Best Business Appraisals, LLC. Best’s presentation, What you Should Know About Business Valuations, highlighted the approaches and methodologies used by appraisers to value a business. Here’s more on Best…

  • Events: Open studio of Big Omaha artist, AIM Happy Hour and more

    Starting with AIM Institute’s Happy Hour at 5 p.m. tomorrow, Omaha has quite the lineup of events these next two weeks. For example, if you weren’t able to make it to Big Omaha or were there and missed out on exploring Scott Blake’s Barcode Art (left, photo by Malone & Co. Photography), I strongly encourage…

  • MVF: Private equity professionals panel this Thursday, May 27

    Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), an Omaha-based non-profit dedicated to creating regional support for entrepreneurs in the Midlands, will be bringing together three private equity professionals for a panel at this month’s…

  • MVF Networking Reception tonight, Startup Drinks Thursday, May 13

    Outside of our big event at the end of the week, there’s two additional entrepreneur gatherings that are very worth your time. Monday, May 10, 4:30 p.m. – Entrepreneur & Investor Networking Reception Presented by Midlands Venture Forum | Brix (located at Village Pointe) Here’s more information on the event, from MVForum.com/events: There is no…

  • Bradley Walker of Nanonation: How to Innovate in Tough Times

    Midlands Venture Forum (MVF), an Omaha-based non-profit dedicated to creating regional support for entrepreneurs in the Midlands, continues to hold top-notch educational events each month. Most recently, J. Joe Ricketts spoke candidly about founding TD Ameritrade and a number of his other ventures. This past December, MVF took at road trip to Lincoln where they…

  • MVF: J. Joe Ricketts speaking tomorrow, two tickets up for grabs

    Orginally, Pete Ricketts, founder of Omaha-based asset management company Drakon, was slated to speak at tomorrow’s Midlands Venture Forum Networking Dinner, but due to a personal conflict he will not be able to make it. Instead, we’ll have the fortune of hearing from his father J. Joe Ricketts, the founder Ameritrade. Here’s more information from…