September 11, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha At 7 p.m. last night, Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off with three guest speakers addressing the subject "startup lessons learned." These three talks are below: Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks (left), Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo. read more
July 28, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha In January of this year, Todd Nichols began working full-time on his startup, TalkAbroad, a company using online video conferencing to connect American college students learning a foreign language with native speakers abroad. The idea for the Omaha native's startup came about while working for a micro-finance organization in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, where he learned to speak Spanish. "[I] spent a few years thinking about some of the skills that people down there had and my… read more
July 22, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha Foreign language study, which is central to Todd Nichols’ company, TalkAbroad, wasn’t central to his early college career. “I found the memorization of words and the grammar studies to be pretty dry,” said Nichols, an Omaha native. His outlook on learning a second language changed, however, when he studied abroad in Cuba and put what he had learned into practice. “It challenged me to really open up and say… read more