Silicon Prairie News

Tune in at 9:30 p.m. CDT tonight to watch Gabe Kangas of the Omaha-based startup Hollrback give a 5-minute demo his mobile contact management app at SF New Tech, a monthly meetup with more than 5,000 members. In preparation for tonight's event, I caught up with Kangas today by email. He said that he had been in talks with the organizers of the SF New Tech event for quite … read more

Omaha As a postlude to our eight-post series on the demonstrations that took place at Cornstalks Demo Night on March 31, we once again present our recap of the demo night and links to the eight demonstrations we've… read more

Omaha Hollrback founder Gabe Kangas presented his company’s context-specific, event-based contact-management system. That description, Kangas said, is "a fancy way of saying that when you meet people, we’re going to try to take care of making that information useful to you." Technical difficulties prevented us from recording Kangas' presentation on Demo Night, but he was kind enough to record another version for us. A few highlights from… read more

Omaha We've set up shop at Creighton University's Harper Center, where Cornstalks Demo Night presentations are set to kick off at about 7 p.m. We'll be live-streaming the presentations here, so stay tuned for eight-minute pitches from eight Silicon Prairie startups … read more

Omaha A limited number of seats remain for tonight's Cornstalks Demo Night. The event is being held inside Creighton University's Harper Center and kicks off at 6 p.m. with an hour-long networking reception in… read more

Omaha Give Hollrback this: the Omaha-based startup seems to have a flair for the dramatic. For the second time in two rounds of TechStars' Startup Madness tournament, Hollrback advanced with a win by an oh-so-slim margin. With the narrow victory, Hollrback advanced … read more