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4379_1d3892bc47_small July 12, 2012 by Paige Yowell

Lincoln Live music on downtown street corners every Friday. Fun and quirky messages written on the city’s bike paths. A random day of free downtown parking for all, courtesy of a local business. They’re all ideas that help … read more

3600_66cb19c0d0_small February 9, 2012 by Kate Ellingson

Lincoln Unite Private Networks and the City of Lincoln will form a joint public-private partnership to place a grid of telecommunication fiber in downtown Lincoln. Lincoln mayor Chris Beutler outlined the plan during a press conference today, where he said that the city will finance a grid of conduits that will ultimately hold fiber from Unite and be open to any other communication company. The city will own the conduit, and Unite will maintain it. Any telecommunication service providers will be able to install fiber in the conduit. … read more

3280_767b44d461_small December 7, 2011 by Danny Schreiber

Lincoln As a follow up to one of our most-read stories this week, we're posting the full video of the Archrival co-founders taking the stage at the Capital Insights event put on by the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce's Young Professionals Group on November 30. For our recap of Clint! Runge and Charlie Hull's "Charlie Rose style" discussion with Christopher Kingsley … read more

3255_acc4f429f3_small December 5, 2011 by Patti Vannoy

Lincoln In January 2010, Archrival founders Clint! Runge and Charlie Hull agreed: they were bored. "Things are going pretty well," they said. "What should we do to shake things up?" Two weeks later, Runge had a voicemail from Jeffrey Dachis, which ultimately led to Dachis Group acquiring the youth marketing firm in November 2010. On Wednesday, Runge and Hull reflected on Archrival's history … read more

2880_a87ac10210_small September 19, 2011 by Michael Stacy

Lincoln Patrick Smith spoke at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce's most recent "Face the Chamber" luncheon on Wednesday, and Nebraska Entrepreneur was on hand to film Smith's talk. Smith, a principal and COO at Nebraska Global, delivered a talk on the investment landscape in Nebraska as a whole and on the activities at his company in particular … read more

September 3, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Shortly after posting our interview with Jay Wilkinson this morning, some great news came out about his company, Firespring. At yesterday's Lincoln Chamber of Commerce's 14th Annual Celebrate Business Luncheon, Firespring was announced as the 2009 Small Business ... read more

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