As many of you know, a number of us from Omaha are involved with a conference in Kansas City this week—Highlight Midwest
The goal of the conference is to “highlight” or showcase the interesting/exciting things that are going on in KC, Des Moines & Omaha regarding technology, entrepreneurship, innovation and social media. This will include presentations [...]

Hi. I’m Ben, a junior from Creighton University currently studying information systems. I met Dusty and Kevin a few weeks ago once I found out they were doing development with Ruby on Rails.
I hadn’t heard of any companies using Ruby on Rails out in Omaha so I decided to check out BrightMix and [...]

With much excitement, we just rolled out a re-designed version of our product Tripleseat’s marketing site… looking good!
Reasons for a Redesign?
We’ve only been selling Tripleseat for about two months and the initial version, which was created by Andy, did a great job of presenting our product.
Tweaking our Marketing Message
However, after a few months of selling, [...]

We received a LOT of positive feedback from our article in the paper yesterday, including a great set of questions from Heather Nelson, Program Manager for Entrepreneurship at Metro Community College here in Omaha.
Question: Did you go through the traditional route and send in a PR announcement to get the coverage? (If so, [...]

It has been a busy week in the “traditional” news media for us here at BrightMix.
Last Tuesday, Dusty was on a panel for the Creighton Business Ethics Alliance . On the panel were three individuals who where discussing the difference between the generations (Traditionalists, Baby Boomers, Millennials), and how communcation between the groups plays into [...]

Thanks to folks like Gary Vaynerchuk, and 37signals, we here at BrightMix have a new found love for the live video streaming site Ustream.tv What is it you ask? Basically, we’re able to stream video live over the internet, for the entire world to watch. Our first broadcast was last week, when Kevin and I [...]

Hot diggity! Our first honest to goodness product has launched: Tripleseat.
What is Tripleseat?
Tripleseat is a customer relationship and event planning software designed specifically for the restaurant private dining room business. With Tripleseat, restaurants no longer have to rely on manually tracking and planning events, but can simply log on to a website to view and [...]

In the first part of this article, we talked at length about how we went about finding our interns for the summer, and how we went about wading through the sea of resumes that we received.
I’ll pick up pretty much where we left off, with the interns just arriving at BrightMix ..

Step 6: Provide Lunch [...]

We’ve received a lot of questions about how we launched and managed our 2008 summer Internship project, codenamed the Feisty Piranha Project, so it’s about high time we address these quandaries.
The recipe we came up was largely based on this Joel article. With that said, I’m going to lay out the steps we went through [...]

Last week, Dusty mentioned BrightMix.tv, a new site I’ve been working on lately. It’ll be a live video feed of us here in Brightlymixedland – as well as other Vimeo gems & Flickr goodies. There’s no real business purpose or reasoning – other than novelty and just because we can. We’re doing it for [...]