Omaha Less than three hours remain to purchase our new Prairie Pass, a certified way to guarantee your seat at our two premier events, Big Omaha 2012 in May and Thinc Iowa 2012 in October. A limited number of Prairie Passes – which also give the purchaser a 10 percent discount – are available until 11 a.m. At 11 a.m., we'll release the first batch of 100 Big Omaha tickets. Please make sure to read the new ticket details on our registration page. … read more

Omaha On Wednesday at 11 a.m., Big Omaha 2012 tickets go on sale! We couldn't be more exited to continue inspiring, educating and celebrating innovation and entrepreneurship through what's already the fourth year of the event. Big Omaha 2012 will kick off the evening of May 9 and conclude the night of May 11. We are humbled that since its first year, Big Omaha has continued to sell out … read more

Omaha Big Omaha is less than three months away, and some fun things are in the works. First up is a new brand and identity (sneak peek, left) from our friends at Oxide Design, our fantastic design partner since the event's inaugural year. Stay tuned to Silicon Prairie News for the Big Omaha website launch announcement this week, which will be accompanied by details about schedule, venues (we'll be back at KANEKO!), hotels and the date tickets will go on sale. Remember, last year Big Omaha sold out in one week so make sure to save the date! Also this week, we'll be unveiling our new promo video directed and produced by the folks at Malone & Company … read more

Omaha That's all she wrote. We appear to have milked every last drop from the content cow that is Big Omaha. With the publication of the final post from our Big Omaha Backstage Pass series on Monday, we have provided an exhaustive look at the energy and emotions, the ideas and insights, the sights and sounds of our flagship premiere event. That timing works nicely because, as luck would have it, as of later this week we'll have another premiere event … read more

Omaha "One, I think mentorship is a gift in and of itself," Pishevar says. "By mentoring you’re already giving something to the mentor, right, as the mentee. So the value of it is just being in that relationship as a mentor and a mentee. And so if you go about it with that attitude it, as a mentor, is very different. And the other thing I would say is, you know, you’d be surprised … read more

Omaha "So I’ve been around so many startups that I’ve seen a lot of moments," Fishback says. "You know, I’ve said many times to people from the idea someone has an idea to the time they start a company, it’s almost universally one year. I don’t know why. That’s just, like, law of averages or whatever. But it takes a year. This was really different than that. … read more

Omaha "What Big Omaha means to me," Chopra says, "is that there is a whole untapped base of entrepreneurial energy that, if we are organized in the right way, they can be successful as entrepreneurs and help our country meet its goals, from improving our health care system, improving our educational system, building a clean energy future. This will happen … read more

Omaha "Do I think that this is an ambitious conference?" Baldwin says. "I categorize it much more as hope, and I think hope is much more about community where ambition is much more about individuals. And I think, for Jeff and Dusty, they’re very hopeful that the community will grow to what the community will allow it to be. They don’t want to it to be Boulder. … read more

Omaha "You know," Gary Vaynerchuk says, "I’ve always known that context — and I didn’t know how to express it — was the whole game, right? For example, you have a feeling towards me right now that is different than you have towards AJ because we engaged together last year, so we created context, right? And now you have a different feeling towards AJ … read more