March 6, 2011 by Geoff Wood
For this week's Sunday video, we've chosen the final pitch from Foodspotting at the Women 2.0 Startup Weekend held nearly eighteen months ago in San Francisco. The pitch is done in Alexa Andrzejewski who spoke on the entrepreneur panel at last year's Big Omaha. Foodspotting is arguable one of the most successful companies to come out the Startup Weekend model, and was... read more
May 27, 2010 by Guest Contributor
Omaha Thanks to a media sponsorship from Andrew Warner of Mixergy, we had the pleasure of meeting Mixergy's producer, Giang Biscan. After her experience at Big Omaha, she wrote about it on her blog, AsAble.com: My personal diary of #BigOmaha. Since publishing it on May 18, she's given us permission to re-post it on Silicon Prairie News – she's made a few edits and added an afterward detailing an email she received from Omaha's Mayor Jim Suttle. 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