May 10, 2013 by Patti Vannoy
Omaha "What if we were to stop putting our companies first?" asked Micah Baldwin at Big Omaha Friday afternoon. "Right now all of your stomachs turned. 'But we’re from the Midwest. That’s what we do.'" But what if we stopped thinking our startups were us? What if the one thing we’ve been told – the harder you work, the better – is wrong? read more
April 3, 2013 by Laura Billingsley
Kansas City After years of advising startups and founding companies, Micah Baldwin was tired. During his talk last week at our Big Kansas City event, the serial entrepreneur and founder and CEO of Graphicly told the audience how he became so worn out he almost sold the company. Graphicly started out as a marketplace for selling comic books. The company changed focus in 2012 to become a provider of tools … read more
January 23, 2013 by Brittany Mascio
Kansas City Registration for the Big Season Pass, a golden ticket to attend all three of The Big Series events, is now available. This pass provides an exclusive 20 percent discount and guarantees a seat to Big Kansas City, Big Omaha and Big Des Moines. The Big Season Pass is on sale for a general admission price of $1,199, and for an entrepreneur/startup discount of $799, effectively making the cost for each … read more
October 13, 2011 by Michael Stacy
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
July 13, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Today, we're pleased to share with the you the tenth video in our Big Omaha 2011 Video Series, brought to you by CoSentry. The video features a great friend and true supporter of Big Omaha and the Silicon Prairie community, Micah Baldwin. Micah is the CEO and chief community caretaker of Graphic.ly, a startup providing an immersive social experience and marketplace around digital comics and … read more
May 13, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha Haven't had time to study up on all of this year's Big Omaha speakers? Not to worry; we can help you cram. We've combed the world wide interwebs to come up with a couple of stories, interviews, videos or otherwise noteworthy nuggets on each of our Big Omaha presenters so that you can brush up before you sit down at KANEKO on Friday morning. … read more
February 16, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha In late January we reported on a local connection to the $3 million funding round of Boulder, Colorado-based Graphic.ly (left, icon of their iPad app). Omaha-based Dundee Venture Capital participated in that round and we grabbed an interview with Dundee's founder Mark Hasebroock the day the story broke. With this story, we're a good week late… read more
January 25, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Micah Baldwin, CEO and chief community caretaker of Boulder-based Graphic.ly, a startup providing an immersive social experience and marketplace around digital comics and associated merchandise, recently spoke with me about his company, namely, the $3 million round of funding they announced today. Led by DFJ Mercury, the round had participation from other venture capital firms and angels… read more
January 25, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha On the questions page of Dundee Venture Captial, founder Mark Hasebroock makes sure to point out: "We invest in companies all over the country, whether you’re in Boulder, New York or right here in Omaha. We like to partner with good people." Today, TechCrunch covered the latest activity from Dundee VC… read more
May 9, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha With Big Omaha 2010 just around the corner, it's time we release a Big Omaha 2009 video for our Sunday Video Series, and the one I've chosen is the most unique of them all. When Matt Mullenweg had to cancel at last minute, we had a 30-minute time slot open up. In response, Jeffrey Kalmikoff, Micah Baldwin, Jason Fried, and Gary Vaynerchuk came together and… read more
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