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ABC News features Nebraska Entrepreneur resource GROW Nebraska

ABC’s News Article “Rural Enterprise on the Rise” highlights GROW Nebraska and how beneficial membership can be for small businesses within the state. The article also showcases Katrina Frey of Heavenly Creations and John Marquis of Ogallala Bay Rum as each explains how GROW has helped take their business to the next level. Check out [...]

Abe Oommen – Genomics and the GeneSeek Experience

2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Genomics and the GeneSeek Experience Abe Oommen, General Manager, Neogen Corporation/GeneSeek Review of the growth and development of GeneSeek as a true Nebraska entity will be presented. Experiences with startup, fund raising, creating a management culture and tying it all up to an exit strategy should be of interest to [...]

Adventures in Data: SectorNow’s Evelyn Bartlett Brings California Data Know-How to Nebraska

There was a time when SectorNow‘s Evelyn Bartlett vowed she would never again live in Nebraska. “I grew up in Waverly,” Bartlett said. “I went to UNL and just basically bolted.” After graduating from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, she briefly touched down in San Diego before settling in Los Angeles. There, the small-town girl with big-city [...]

Advice for Nebraskan family businesses successful at UNL

As the Baby Boom generation continues retiring from years of working, their predecessors are beginning to fill the gaps left behind. Those inheriting a business may not know to effectively keep their family business moving forward after the previous generation. Dave Specht took on the challenge of providing consultation and guidance for family businesses.  His [...]

Agile Sports and Stephanie Healy talk about growth

2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship How to rapidly grow a Nebraska startup – unlimited vacation and Jets tickets Brian Kaiser, CTO, Agile Sports Technologies In four years, Agile Sports has grown from its three founders to 30 employees and from one devoted customer (the University of Nebraska Husker football team) to 2500 teams in 48 [...]

AgilX utilizes client relationships, lean startup model to bootstrap GratisLite

If you want to meet two people who understand and employ agile development, it would be Dustin Clonch and Jake McElroy. Clonch and McElroy are the co-founders and operators of the aptly named AgilX, a software development company centered on GratisLite, a point-of-sale software that offers and meets the needs of clients, business partners and tasks [...]

Agriculture Innovation with Mark Gustafson

Nebraska Entrepreneur sat down with Mark Gustafson to talk about agricultural innovation in Nebraska and the University of Nebraska’s role in that. Mark Gustafson is the founding director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska [...]

AIM Institute expands to Lincoln, opens office at University of Nebraska Technology Park

News Release Lincoln, Neb.—March 23, 2010—The AIM Institute of Omaha, a nonprofit membership organization providing information technology leadership to Nebraska and the region, announced it has expanded its outreach abilities by opening an office in Lincoln at the University of Nebraska Technology Park. The organization has had a strong presence in Omaha since its founding [...]

AIM Institute gives businesses Information Technology education

Small businesses are probably aware of the importance of using technology to promote itself. However, technology is constantly changing and starting a business is daunting already without having to worry about learning all the information behind technology. Companies like the AIM Institute provide services to startups to help create a bridge to understand technology. The [...]

AIM Institute Presents – From Innovate to Dominate: Perspectives on Rapid Growth in the Cloud

The AIM Institute has been a longtime supporter of information technology leadership in the region. It does this through a number of different programs and initiatives and one of those has always been a speaker series. For 2012, the AIM Institute is focusing its speaker series around the impact that innovation, marketing, management and ‘the cloud’ have on the business [...]

Allied Strategy sets path for Raikes School startups

While the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is a gateway to corporate positions for some graduates, others use this honors program education and experience to start them on a different path – launching their own companies. The startup stories of two Lincoln companies that raised significant outside capital demonstrate the ways the [...]

Allo Communications Helps Make Western Nebraska Viable for Global Business

In today’s global market, businesses require fast, reliable data and communication networks that simply didn’t exist in much of western Nebraska. What most people saw as a roadblock, Brad Moline considered an opportunity. In 2003, Brad and his partner, Russ Pankonin, started Allo Communications to provide the telecommunications support needed to help make rural Nebraska more [...]

Angel Investors to be Matched with Startups

If getting the resources to make your startup a success makes you wish for an angel on your shoulder, Invest Nebraska, a nonprofit corporation, may be able to help. Dan Hoffman, executive director, tells us how. Invest Nebraska also sponsors annual Venture Competitions across the state. Q: We talked before about how your Operational Assistance [...]

Are You Destined to be an Entrepreneur? Interview with Grant Stanley

[Our VIDEA contest in August produced a multitude of entries on entrepreneurs that they felt have good lessons to share. Grant Stanley of Contemporary Analysis was one of those.] Nebraska entrepreneur Grant Stanley recently sat down with us to talk about his experience starting Contemporary Analysis and entrepreneurs in general.    

Area Entrepreneur / Small Biz Resource Forums

Area Entrepreneur / Small Biz Resource Forums Coming to Central and Southeast Nebraska The Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) is hosting two area forums focused on coordinated support for entrepreneurs and business development in Nebraska.  On November 30, 2010, the first “Area Entrepreneur /Small Biz Resource Forum” will be in Beatrice with the Beatrice Area Chamber [...]

Avoid These Five Mistakes With Angel Investors

Pitching a startup idea to an angel investor is exciting – the entrepreneur is meeting with someone who can fund his or her idea and help make a dream for a business come true. But too often, entrepreneurs make mistakes when approaching and meeting with angel investors, missteps that can cost them the equity capital [...]

Awesome Camp All Its Name Promises And More

The same technology that shrinks the world a little more each day — through phone lines and cell towers and mankind’s mastery of the wide open airwaves — also offers a level of workplace flexibility completely unfeasible only a decade ago. Working from home to avoid the morning commute is becoming more and more common, [...]

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, [...]

Ben Pankonin with Social Assurance shares about maturing an industry

Building a product where an industry is already at, technology wise, is an easy task. But building a new product that matures an industry, and a big one at that, is no small task. To create a remarkable product it means focusing on one industry and knowing everything about it. Ben Pankonin and Social Assurance [...]

Big Omaha – Past, Present and Future

We recently sat down with Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson of Silicon Prairie News to learn about the event Big Omaha.  The third annual event will be held May 11-13 this year.  Be sure to signup on their website and check back for updates as they begin to roll out announcements. Why Big Omaha was [...]

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