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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”? Warren Buffett is known to avoid embracing new technologies ever since his famous remark during the dot-com bubble of the 1990s that he doesn’t invest in technology because he doesn’t understand it. But not for long.

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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. If you are interested in starting a business in Lincoln, check out these resources: Starting a Business in Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business. Community Development Resources Nebraska.

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Students Show The Way For Technology Innovation At Microsoft Imagine Cup 2012

YoungUpstarts

For over 350 students from 75 countries around the world participating in the upcoming worldwide finals of the Microsoft Imagine Cup in Sydney, things will certainly be tough – they will be pitted against each other with their ideas around technology innovation and entrepreneurship. Inspiring A New Generation. Imagine Cup Grants.

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The LeanLaunch Pad at Stanford – Class 4: Customer Hypotheses

Steve Blank

as well as channel partners and cloud industry technology consultants. They also talked by phone to organic farmers in Nebraska and the Santa Cruz mountains. The Agora team decided to formalize the customer discovery process by coming up with a set of Customer Discovery principles and questions that were as good as any I’ve seen.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. You make more black socks for more people in the western world than anyone. The next generation isn't interested in socks. One daughter is touring nationally with her punk band. remember Woody Harrelson on Cheers?

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

If it doesn’t scale, you’ll wind up with Nebraska soccer moms adding Champion tube socks from Walmart.com. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. If you found it, you probably knew someone else using it and were taught a norm for what kind of content goes there before you started. Is that a good thing? Can you design around it?

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VolunteerSpot Lands $1.5 Million Investment

SiliconHills

ff Venture Capital of New York led the investment along with the Central Texas Angel Network, Nebraska Angel network, Angel List and Baylor Angel Network. VolunteerSpot, which creates tools for moms, nonprofit organizers and others to coordinate volunteers, has received $1.5