January 6, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the tenth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features the "Extended Speaker Q&A" in which we brought back on stage six of our speakers: Jason Fried of 37signals, Gary Vaynerchuk of Wine Library TV and VaynerMedia, Scott Belsky of Behance, Dennis Crowley of foursquare, Danae Ringelmann of IndieGoGo, and Robert… read more
October 14, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the fourth presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features our first presenter from the event's second day, Dennis Crowley, the co-founder of foursquare. Crowley and the foursquare team are continuing to make major waves in the industry and the crowd was excited to hear about his history and the story of foursquare… read more
July 20, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha In case you missed the Twitter and Facebook chatter these past few days, last Friday, CNN.com published an article titled Techies reject coasts for 'Silicon Prairie,' in which we were interviewed by its author, Josh Rubin. It was great opportunity for us to highlight the work as well as a handful of the companies… read more
May 15, 2010 by Geoff Wood
Omaha 8:03 a.m. Welcome to Day 2 of Big Omaha. After an educational, enjoyable, and inspirational day of speakers, parties, and connecting yesterday, we're getting set to jump into another shared experience with the likes of Dennis Crowley (foursquare), Melody McCloskey (StyleSeat) and Tony Hsieh (Zappos). I'm the duly appointed live blogger for today so if you're not in the room, feel free to check back here throughout the day or follow the Twitter stream… read more
May 14, 2010 by John T. Meyer
Omaha 1:32 p.m. After a great lunch across the street at the Halo Institute people are settling in for the afternoon sessions. Up first will be Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, who will be interviewed by Robert Scoble, blogger, technical evangelist and managing director of building43. Let's get started! | 1:41 Automattic has 60 employees across 49 cities all over the world. Quote of the moment: I'm probably the world's must frustrated WordPress user. read more
April 25, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Keeping in line with weekly links to startup-related posts that we find interesting, each Sunday we'll be sharing a video with solid content that we found while scouring the web for entrepreneurial and innovative inspiration. This week's video features Dennis Crowley, co-founder of Foursquare (which should pass three million users by the end of the summer). He is also one Big Omaha's speakers in two weeks. read more
April 16, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha It's Foursquare Day, and to celebrate we've announced a few more speakers to the Big Omaha roster! Anyone up for a game of Foursquare while wearing a pair of shoes from Zappos while dining on a delicious meal found on Foodspotting while reviewing data from SimpleGeo? Look for more details early next week, but take a look at who we are thrilled to be bringing into Omaha for the event. read more
Omaha Alright folks! It's here! Some of you may have already seen some chatter on Twitter for this new application called Foursquare. For those who don't know, Foursquare is a location based social network that incorporates fun gaming elements. ... read more