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5 Reasons Investors Should Keep Their Eyes On Omaha, Nebraska

YoungUpstarts

by Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. 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.

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Feeling Old(er) at Big Omaha

Feld Thoughts

I vividly remember almost losing our largest client at the time because they had taken my partner Dave out for drinks (he is three years older than me) and they somehow pried out of him that I was only 21. I’m at the Big Omaha Conference today for the first time. That generated a lot of anxiety for a week or so.

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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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What Boston’s Top Consumer Tech Leaders Think About Boston’s Consumer Tech Struggles [#BostonB2C Recap]

View from Seed

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. We pulled together a lineup of A-list speakers, healined by TripAdvisor CEO Steve Kaufer, Wayfair CEO Niraj Shah, and Spark Capital founder and partner Bijan Sabet, among other very talented entrepreneurs and thinkers.

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5 Biggest Mistakes in Healthcare Staffing by Susanne Mariga, CPA

Mike Michalowicz

Clients want to pay for no-nonsense service and by offering solutions that make a client most successful, a health care staffing firm will achieve the title of the most valued partner without feeling the pressure of lower margins. Coasting on Auto Pilot … Linda Murphy, VP Client Sales of AMN Healthcare. C&A Industries, Inc.

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5 Famous Introverted Leaders And What You Can Learn From Them

crowdSPRING Blog

Known as the “Oracle of Omaha,” Buffett is one of the world’s richest men and a respected financial leader. Wozniak had the self-awareness (another trait introverts commonly excel at ) to realize that he would be well served by partnering with someone who possessed strengths to balance his own weaknesses.

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A Tale of Profit First Success from Sherri Tafoya, President & founder of Custom Blinds & Design

Mike Michalowicz

. – as business progressed from my “shop at home”, model, I stepped out in faith- and opened a Hunter Douglas trademark Gallery Store in Lincoln 2005- then a second Gallery Store in Omaha, 2008. . Fast forward to 2020 . We kicked in 2020 with outstanding sales. Our company goal for 2020 was set at $4.1