Keynote: FLYOVER by Archrival
March 17, 2011 by Nebraska Entrepreneur
Filed under News, Video
2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship
FLYOVER by Archrival
Clint! Runge, Creative Director of Archrival
Charlie Hull, Managing Director of Archrival
Archrival co-founders Clint! Runge and Charles Hull critique the flyover state by giving a voice to the boiling sentiment of up-and-coming entrepreneurs, complemented by an honest assessment of how we look to the national consumer.
Supporting videos and web sites mentioned:
CNN Money – Good times in ‘The Big O’
http://www.nebraska.gov
Visit Nebraska – http://www.visitnebraska.com
See Nebraska – http://www.seenebraska.org/
http://www.thedenveregotist.com/news/national/2008/may/28/please-god-take-nebraska-out-its-misery
http://www.collegehumor.com/hotlink:214800
I Live In Omaha – http://www.iliveinomaha.com
Omahype – http://www.omahype.com
Silicon Prairie News – http://www.siliconprairienews.com
Careerbuilder.com 2011 Super Bowl Ad
What Happens in Vegas
Visit Nebraska Tourism video – Who Knew?
SeeNebraska.com
This is fire. Clint and Charlie killed it. This needs to be seen over and over and over until everyone in the state who depends on the successful recruitment of talent to Nebraska has seen it. Quite possibly the most important presentation our community of business leaders has needed to see in a long time.
Nice clothes Runge..You can probably start kicking the Nebraska attitudes yourself by wearing something besides hipster clothes you pulled from a underneath a big pile of dirty laundry. Perfect example of what your actually talking about. Good luck.
Totally agree with you, Joe. I am a millennial that recently moved from Nebraska to NYC (and plan on returning sooner rather than later). Having experienced this when I tell people I’m from Nebraska, Archrival really sets the bar very high. I look forward to seeing what comes out of this.
Great presentation. All true. I live in Chicago and have lived in the Bay Area and have spent enough time in other cities to know that Omaha is a pretty great place to be. What Clint and Charlie said pretty much encapsulates my thoughts on the subject (in a smarter and more thought out way). I would live there if my personal and professional lives would allow it.
I learned long ago that trying to convince people is futile. They don’t want to listen. It’s an uphill battle that you’ll never ever win. But when, say, I’m in California and meet somebody who also happens to be from Nebraska and we start hashing through all things Nebraska. Bystanders can’t help but think that there must be something going on in this strange and faraway place. There’s real power in that. And that’s why there’s such potential in social media as a solve for this problem. It’s an opportunity for people to witness, not necessarily take part in, but witness honest conversations between Nebraskans.
Sites like “I Live in Omaha” do a great job of making Nebraska a poorly kept secret. A smart goal for Nebraska (from a media standpoint) would be to become the worst kept secret in the country.
I recently moved from the Bay Area to Lincoln, because this is a great place to live. It has proven to be everything we had hoped and much more…benefits that are extremely difficult to impart in casual conversation, or an ad spot, because they are profound.
This is a very good video and Clint and Charles boldly put the truth out there, many of the same points I’ve been harping on whenever I possibly can, to sympathetic ears but probably not the right audience. The suggestions are good but it has to be boiled into task lists for specific people. Who is working on it? Whom do we contact, how do we play on the team?