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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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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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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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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

At the time, I think we didn’t even had a name for the fund. Some of our most interesting companies have originated in places like Estonia (GrabCAD), Croatia (Farmeron) and Omaha (SkyVu), although all have either moved or have a significant presence in a major tech hub like SF, Boston, or NY.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

Both Sides of the Table

Obvious examples include SxSW in Austin or Big Omaha in, well, I’ll let you guess. I’ve been very public about how much I think the term “Silicon” in front of every city name is a waste. Fred Wilson has done this for the NY startup scene but of course you also have mass media located there.