Highlight Midwest

…you can add up the 2000 census figures for Des Moines, Kansas City, and Omaha and still need another Omaha before you reach the population of Philadelphia? (Yep that’s “both” Kansas Cities, Kansas & Missouri sides combined).

…a 2005 conference was assembled in Chicago to study the fact that “[a]lthough the Midwest is home to significant research and development (R&D) activity, this role has not led to an abundance of start-up companies or rapid growth of emerging technology industries“?

…Over 400 people showed up for Minneapolis’ 2008 unconference, Minnebar?

…Bo Fishback was on the team that published “Finding Business “Idols”: A New Model to Accelerate Start-Ups?

…Des Moines’ Brett Trout has a book on Amazon entitled, Cyber Law: A Legal Aresnal for Online Business accompanied by a 5 star rating? Add did you meet Brett at the event? He was the best dressed guy there…

…Gary Vaynerchuk will be at Big OMAHA this May?

…Dan Connolly lives in KC but couldn’t make it back from Europe in time for the event? You can follow him, btw. Paco Nathan lives in KC too and runs the AdKnowledge technology team. If you saw Florian Leibert at the event, well he works for Paco.

…Omaha’s Brightmix recently had their Tripleseat site featured in Restaurant Buiness magazine? Did you meet Dusty at the event? You didn’t? Next time make it a point to introduce yourself…

…Des Moines’ SmartyPig was recently featured in Los Angeles and Sydney, Australia media outlets?

Didn’t know that stuff, huh?…Well now you do!

…and the list goes on and on…