Basics to financing your small business with SBA loans and grants

This guest post was contributed by Todd Furasek, Vice President, Commercial Loans at Union Bank & Trust Company. It is very important that someone interested in owning a small business finds a business related to something he or she enjoys. A small business is a ton of work and if you don’t enjoy what you are doing, [...]

CDR Announces January Lending Information Meeting

  Entrepreneurs with a business idea or business owners who want to grow — especially those struggling to find funding — should circle Jan. 11, 2012 on their calendars. That’s the day Community Development Resources will host a free lending information meeting at Southeast Community College in Lincoln. Deb Payne, manager of Alice’s Integrity Loan Fund at [...]

Chris Miller Wants to Bring New Energy and Resources to Young Entrepreneurs

In 2010, the non-profit group Service Corps of Retired Entrepreneurs, or SCORE, awarded Chris Miller and his business partner Cole Strunkard with an Omaha Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award was given in response to the pair’s innovative property management company, DeltaREP. Now 27, Miller has not only founded a successful property management company, but also expanded operations [...]

Elkhorn Valley Economic Development Council

Promoting new economic development and encouraging business retention and expansion in our member communities and counties. EVEDC Services for Communities: Strategic planning for economic development Assistance in forming and sustaining community economic development groups Resource Team for economic development project management Business recruitment Community marketing EVEDC Consulting Services for start up and existing businesses: Product [...]

Franchising Tips: Fast But Controlled Growth Fuels Complete Nutrition

Watch for additional articles over the next month on our new series about franchising. Ryan Zink and Cory Wiedel of Omaha were operating a GNC franchise when a career-altering revelation changed everything. Success in the nutritional supplement business, they realized, would be achieved by offering much more than just products. “We had come up with [...]

Free Seminar to Take the Mystery out of U.S. Small Business Administration Loan Programs

The U.S. Small Business Administration’s Nebraska District Office will sponsor a free, one-hour seminar designed to take the mystery out of the process of applying for federally guaranteed small business loans. “Take the Mystery out of SBA Loans” is scheduled for noon on May 21 in the District Office, 10675 Bedford Ave., Suite 100, in [...]

Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference is all about action

An exciting new regional event, the Midwest Entrepreneurship Conference 2012, is happening at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall March 30-31. UNO, the Collegiate Entrepreneur Organization, and the Omaha chapter of CEO are sponsoring the event. According to Chris Miller, a current MBA student, the event is focused on providing tools and actions [...]

Pretty in Pink: Elkhorn Mom Blends Her Startup with Raising Family

Beka Doolittle long knew she wanted to start her own business. The actual concept came in 2007 when she was working as a personal banker. “Between my husband and sons, I had all of these boys in the house, and I was the only girl,” she said. “I realized I needed girly stuff. So I [...]

RockDex earns local and national attention

RockDex, a company in Omaha, lets bands learn how they really rate with fans based on Internet buzz. Their software application tracks data like band mention and song plays on social media sites and other Internet venues, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and music blogs. RockDex compiles, analyzes and presents the data so that musicians, managers, [...]

SCORE – Central Nebraska

Central Nebraska SCORE Chapter 300…..serving Aurora, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, Holdrege, Minden and surrounding areas. SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business” is a nonprofit association dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with free, confidential face-to-face and email business counseling. Business counseling and workshops are offered at 364 chapter offices across the country. Central Nebraska provides free and [...]

SCORE – Columbus

Columbus is part of SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business,” a national nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of the nation’s small businesses. Columbus provides free and confidential business advice and counseling tailored to meet the needs of your small business and your personal objectives. Columbus also offers workshops, [...]

SCORE – Lincoln

Lincoln SCORE is part of SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business,” a national nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of the nation’s small businesses. Lincoln SCORE provides free and confidential business advice and counseling tailored to meet the needs of your small business and your personal objectives. Lincoln also [...]

SCORE – National

SCORE the “Counselors of America’s Small Business Owners” is a national association dedicated to helping small business owners form and grow their businesses. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia and Washington D.C., SCORE has 364 chapters in the United States as well as in U.S territories. SCORE is a partner of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA).

SCORE – Norfolk

Norfolk is part of SCORE “Counselors to America’s Small Business,” a national nonprofit association dedicated to entrepreneur education and the formation, growth and success of the nation’s small businesses. Norfolk provides free and confidential business advice and counseling tailored to meet the needs of your small business and your personal objectives. Norfolk also offers workshops, [...]

SCORE – Omaha

Our Mission It is the Mission of SCORE Chapter 40 and each of our members to develop and deliver entrepreneurial education and support, and foster the formation, growth and success of small business in eastern Nebraska. We strive to do so consistent with the skills, best practices and demands of small business in today’s and [...]

SCORE – Scottsbluff

SCORE Scottsbluff

SCORE experts can help your startup or existing small business

The seed for Chris Miller’s startup business was planted by his own need for clean, affordable housing – and preferably with opportunities for a social life – when he was a senior at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Four years later, he and Cole Stunkard operate Delta Real Estate Portfolio – an Omaha-based property [...]

Taking Entrepreneurs at Their Word: Alice Dittman Loans Money on Her Terms

Funding will be the topic of our next series on Nebraska Entrepreneur. Big to small, the topic comes up in some form for most startups.   When Alice Dittman was a banker, she wasn’t able to give all the loans she wished she could. Now that she has retired as the president and CEO of Cornhusker Bank, [...]

UNL’s Jayem Subbiah bringing technology from the classroom to the marketplace

Entrance into India’s elite state universities is so notoriously difficult that America’s Ivy League routinely accepts many young Indians who fail to get in every year. Jeyam Subbiah has firsthand knowledge of how selective India’s state universities can be. He was born into an entrepreneurial family in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state, but though entrepreneurship [...]

Web Site Promotes South Platte Area Rural Entrepreneurs

When sisters Betty Sayers and Nancy Herhahn graduated from Holdredge High School, educators and parents told them they could be more successful if they left Nebraska. And so they did. Herhahn worked as a real estate company executive, living in Chicago and then San Diego. Sayers taught at a community college in Belcourt, N.D., then [...]

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