Nebraska Made

It might be fair to call Steve Kiene the Steve Jobs of Nebraska. He sees things differently, he makes things happen and he doesn’t care what others think of him. He’s had plenty of success that has opened doors for him to move away from Nebraska and pursue greater ventures but he remains adamantly loyal to his home state and his home town of Lincoln Nebraska.

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Our guest today Skip Cronin spent his early years becoming a fitness and movement expert and now leads a fitness tech company called EliteForm. One thing about skip is that he isn’t afraid of a challenge - he’s been known to get into bench press competitions with NFL players and he isn’t afraid to speak his mind in a company meetings. Skip lives in high gear and he’s helping to push Nebraska tech forward.

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Our guest today Joshua Armah, represents a new kind of Nebraska Made. Joshua’s journey as a young mind in Artificial Intelligent and Blockchain technology has taken him all across the country from New York City to Silicon Valley. He was introduced to the startup ecosystem here in Nebraska and immediately recognized it’s potential value and upside and has decided to make it his home. Joshua was remote at the time of this interview so excuse the audio quality but you can bet he is still very present here and is invested in this community.

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Our guest today Nick Cusick has been heavily involved in the economic development of Nebraska. He was the chairman of the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce and helped bring Pinnacle Bank arena to Lincoln. But before he began volunteering and working in the community he made a name for himself by building high end basketball hoops in Nebraska.

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2 years ago Saro Cidery was founded by 2 Doctors and their MBA wives. Matt Wood an ophthalmologist and his wife Tracy Sanford and Jonathan Henning a urologist and his wife Paige Duncan. They teamed up with Executive Chef Eric Leyden for his culinary expertise and together they’re creating ciders that are as Nebraska Made as they are.

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Doug Durham calls himself a Jack of all trades, master of none. But that’s just his humble way of saying that he’s an incredibly talented generalist. His curiosity has propelled him through life and he’s done some incredible things to advance the Tech industry in Nebraska.

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Our guest today, Mike Murman, has done some pretty amazing things in his lifetime. He first founded an incredibly disruptive software company that aggregates law enforcement surveillance data and now he’s making the top selling craft cider in the Omaha area. Two very different endeavors that both started right here in Nebraska.

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Our guest today Mark Carson, helped pioneer the early days of the internet right here in Nebraska. He was an early adopter of SEO and e-commerce and it led him to start his own online toy store which sold last week for a substantial amount. But it didn’t happen without setbacks.

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Buck Kiechel is the owner of a 3 story art gallery in downtown Lincoln that holds thousands of rare and famous works of art with prices ranging up to $10M dollars. Fine art usually isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you think about Nebraska but Buck has made a name for himself as an honest dealer.

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Adjuvance Technologies is a vaccine research company that made waves in the Lincoln biotech startup community earlier this year, when it announced that it had raised a 20M series A round of funding - reportedly the largest series a round of funding ever in Nebraska history. And their CEO Tyler Martin, has an unlikely story coming from humble small town Nebraska.

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