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27 Entrepreneurs Share Tips on Building an Ecommerce Business

Hearpreneur

I also suggest protecting your brand by trademarking your business name, ensuring it's uniquely yours. These days, we have a strong e-commerce presence – focusing heavily on digital marketing and user experience, providing deals and promotions throughout the year on the Omaha Steaks website. Thanks to Todd Simon, Omaha Steaks ! #9-

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5 Reasons Investors Should Keep Their Eyes On Omaha, Nebraska

YoungUpstarts

Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”? Omaha is rising in prominence among entrepreneurs and investors, making a name for itself in a more broad and diverse range of industries than in previous years. And the staggering fortunes in Omaha aren’t just related to Berkshire Hathaway.

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Feeling Old(er) at Big Omaha

Feld Thoughts

I’m at the Big Omaha Conference today for the first time. They only food at the party was meaty stuff (other than some creamy artichoke dip) so I went for a walk around the part of downtown Omaha we were at (11th Street-ish) looking for dinner. I learned a little about the scene in Omaha, so that was useful to me.

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Quick Left: An unlikely CEO leads this app development house that’s “a bit like therapy”

The Next Web

In fact, she’s so unlikely to talk about herself or her company that, while sitting with her for dinner during Big Omaha, the subject of Quick Left came up (not from her, mind you) and I said that I really needed to talk to someone from there to find out their story. “It depends on the company.

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20 Coolest iPad Ideas For Your Library

YoungUpstarts

Once mocked by techies for being both frivolous and having a silly name, the device has since become nearly ubiquitous in coffee shops, schools, airports and businesses across the nation. The Omaha Public Library recently applied for, and received, a grant that let them purchase six iPads.

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Startups and small biz at SXSW: ideas on how to spend your time at the conference!

crowdSPRING Blog

Threadless, 37Signals, FeedBurner, BIG Omaha conference, and SXSW itself are proof that technology life exists away from the coasts. She has been named a “Guru you should know&# by Fortune magazine, a “Hero of the Environment&# by Time magazine, and a “Master of Design&# by Fast Company. ([link].

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Unsettled and Disgusted

Feld Thoughts

By directly targeting productive American residents, children, and the elderly in the name of national security, they are cynical, illogical, immoral, and extremely insensitive. However, it always gives me a tiny flavor of how one might feel when entering the country, even without the recent executive order. This is not ok.

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