September 14, 2011 by Danny Schreiber
Iowa City Pulling out the tech scene star power, Startup Weekend Iowa City (Sept. 30 - Oct. 2) is featuring a video introduction by Zappos CEO and best-selling author Tony Hsieh. "(I) defintely encourage all of you, if you've got an idea, pitch it," Hsieh says in a five-minute video that also features Dylan Bathurst of Zappos' development team. "A bunch of us went on this bus across the country last year to … read more
March 1, 2011 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha (Photo by Malone & Company) Today, we're releasing the last presentation in our video series from Big Omaha 2010! This video features Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO and author of the New York Times bestseller "Delivering Happiness". When Tony confirmed that he'd be able to make Big Omaha 2010, we all knew we were in for a treat. Tony shared many of the details around what has made the Zappos organization… read more
October 4, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha As seen on TechCrunch today – Delivering Happiness: The Rap Video – we're excited to share the video produced by the Delivering Happiness Bus Team documenting the first stage of their bus trip across America promoting Tony Hsieh's book, "Delivering Happiness." Their stop in Omaha was a lot of fun and we really enjoyed… read more
September 7, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Last week the Delivering Happiness bus descended on Omaha, Nebraska. It was the second time that Tony Hsieh along with members of the Zappos and Delivering Happiness team were in our city, the first being Hsieh's talk at Big Omaha 2010. When I heard that Hsieh was planning a bus tour across America on behalf of the release of Delivering Happiness, which is now a New York Times… read more
September 1, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Starting at 8:30 a.m. CDT, Tony Hsieh, author of "Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose" and CEO of Zappos, will be speaking in Omaha about his book and the culture of Zappos that inspired him to write it. The event – details at bustouromaha.eventbrite.com – is sold out, but the live stream of the entire talk will be available to the public free of charge. (Live stream below.) read more
August 30, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
This week, there are two get-togethers in Omaha and one in Des Moines that we recommend you check out. Tony Hsieh's presentation on Wednesday morning is sold out but it will be live-streamed, see… read more
August 26, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha Tony Hsieh, author of “Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose” and CEO of Zappos, will be speaking in Omaha next Wednesday, September 1, about his book and the story behind Zappos' amazing growth. Hsieh, the Delivering Happiness Bus Tour team, and the "Happy Bus" (see video below) are stopping in Omaha as part of a three-month, 20-city tour. We've teamed up… 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
May 9, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski
Omaha About a week ago, I had the privilege of interviewing one of this decade's leading entrepreneurs, Tony Hsieh. Prior to building Zappos into a company that Amazon would eventually acquire for 850 million-dollars, Hsieh co-founded and sold the internet advertising network LinkExchange to Microsoft for 265 million-dollars in 1998. Tony's passion and drive to build Zappos' company culture is infectious… read more