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San Francisco, Boulder, Boston, Austin are all well-known start-up hubs. Why shouldn’t Omaha, Nebraska, be on that list?
That’s the question that nagged Jeff Slobotski, an Omaha native who spent years working in a sales position that brought him to these hubs across the country. He was always impressed by the concentration and recognition of creativity and talent in these other towns. "I get back home and I realized, well wait a minute we have those individuals here," Slobotski says. "But nobody was really telling their story."