Invest Nebraska completes financing in Virtual Incision

Invest Nebraska Corp. announced today the closing of financing in Virtual Incision, a Nebraska medical device company. The investment was completed in conjunction with Prairie Gold Venture Partners and Bluestem Capital, both of Sioux Falls, S.D. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. The capital will be used to accelerate the development of Virtual [...]

WriteLife Rides Self-Publishing Wave to Quick Success

In recent years, the world of book publishing has been turned on its ear. Internet, software and rapidly changing printing technologies have fueled the rise of book self-publishing, opening the floodgates to writers who can publish their works without the need to have their manuscripts accepted or rejected at the whims of book publishers. Still, [...]

UNL’s Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic opens, gives advice to startups

Nebraska’s start-up businesses are brimming with unique ideas, brilliant entrepreneurs and hard workers. But there’s one thing missing. Brett Stohs, director of the new Entrepreneurship Legal Clinic at the University of Nebraska College of Law, said many entrepreneurs lack important legal resources. With the help of this new clinic, entrepreneurs can receive this access at [...]

Video: Pacha Soap raises the bar for socially conscience entrepreneurs

Pacha Soap started as an idea while on a bus in South America, grew out of a college dorm room and has successfully grown from there. Hastings entrepreneur Andrew Vrbas shares his story about creating a business that will help change the world. For every bar of a soap sold, one bar is given to [...]

Pharmaceutical production company looks to expand locally, internationally

Vireo Resources opened a new building in Plattsmouth fewer than three months ago, but has already made strides in the world of pharmaceuticals. The company focuses its energy on alternative pain relievers and muscle-building supplements for athletes. President Mark Faulkner said he became interested in chemical blending and legal performance enhancement after working for Aegis [...]

Discovering the Product for You with the Help of Bulu Box

After recently completing the San Francisco marathon, University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduates Paul and Stephanie Jarrett developed an idea for a vitamin supplement sampling company. As Paul Jarrett finished the marathon, he was approached from various companies giving away free samples to the runners. “I thought it was pretty interesting that nobody was taking down our [...]

FUSE Coworking Poised to Ignite Lincoln’s Startup Community

In cities with successful entrepreneurial communities, the “co-working” concept of solo entrepreneurs, independent contractors, telecommuters and other professionals working in a shared office environment has become a hot trend. In Lincoln, however, co-working hasn’t gained a foothold, despite the Capital City’s burgeoning startup scene. Three Lincoln businessmen are poised to ignite a change. Matt Westenburg, [...]

Health Care Connect, a competition for Nebraska entrepreneurs

DEADLINE December 15! Register now. Designers, developers and entrepreneurs create products and solutions every day. But often the solution is found and then the creator goes in search of the problem. Great products emerge, but the process is backward. The largest private industry in Lincoln is changing that. The city’s health care industry is fostering [...]

Video: Sam Featherston on manufacturing and acquisitions

Sam Featherston left his job of many years in management in plastics manufacturing and took a new role of ownership. He and a team of other investors from the industry have bought several companies now and have diversified beyond just plastics. In this video, Featherston shares about what went in to buying the first company [...]

Dusty Davidson on building great teams and processes

Many people dream of working at a job they love. Dusty Davidson made this dream come true by leaving a standard software development job to start his own company. “I wanted to create a place that employees would love to work at every day,” he said. “I also wanted to surround myself with smart and [...]

UNeMed hosts Sixth Annual Innovation Week and Innovation Awards

“Honoring Individuals for New Inventions, Patents, & Licensed Technologies,” read the headline for the recent UNMC Research Innovation Week. The celebration, hosted by UNeMed Corp., took place Oct. 15-18. UNeMed is a leading corporation that handles the support and transport of new technology and commercialization of inventions at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, located [...]

Nebraska Enterprise Fund adds new board members and honors John Munn for his service to the board

Chairman Winsley Durand III welcomed two new board members and a new advisory committee member during the recent Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) annual Board of Directors meeting. New board members include Cassie Seagren, executive director of York County Development Corp., and Krista Dittman, Branched Oak Farm co-owner and entrepreneur. Shannon Filing, president of Transformational Marketing [...]

Laminated Wood Systems in business for 20 years through innovation, knowledge and education

Laminated Wood Systems, based in Seward, began in 1992. Prior to its inception, two of Laminated Wood Systems’ current owners, President Bob Reisdorff and Vice President of Sales and Marketing Doug Kotil, were providing consultation services to manufacturers producing various products for the electric utility industry at RDM Design Systems. It was there that the [...]

New Co-working Program Brings Expert Advice to Mastercraft Tenants

Startup entrepreneurs inevitably must wrestle with business operation issues far removed from their expertise. They face legal and financial questions that can gobble up time and money they can ill-afford to spend. If you are entrepreneur, think how valuable it would be to have a team of experts eager to help you troubleshoot problems. And [...]

Pipeline Fellowship Applications Due Today

Application Deadline – Midnight, Oct. 29, 2012 Starting your own business is quite a task. You must build a financial base, select employees and develop a long-standing business platform. Pipeline helps innovators complete all these objectives and more. It’s a year-long entrepreneurial fellowship program in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri. “We’re looking for entrepreneurs that are [...]

New Business Loan Officer for Nebraska Enterprise Fund

The Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) has announced the addition of Terrence Coleman to the staff. Coleman is working as a business loan officer primarily in the Omaha area, but is available to assist with lending across the state. Prior to joining NEF, he was the Chief Operations Officer for NeighborWorks Omaha, an affiliate of NeighborWorks [...]

Video: Social technology will change business forever

Mike Betzer, CEO of Social Dynamx, presented his talk ‘Social Technology Will Change Business Forever’ to students of UNL’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. An experienced executive in contact centers and CRM, Mike drives the overall corporate and product strategy for Social Dynamx as CEO. Mike worked for MCI for 14 [...]

Nebraska Business Leaders Provide Insight on M&As

This is the final piece in a multi-part series about business acquisitions. Nebraska business owners, investors and support professionals tell Nebraska Entrepreneur about the merger and acquisition (M&A) process and their best advice to business owners. Throughout the past several months, I’ve interviewed and profiled Nebraska business owners, investors and support professionals about what it [...]

Invest Nebraska welcomes new chief executive, looks to invest in high-growth companies

  Invest Nebraska, a venture development organization founded in 2002 that advises and invests in innovative, growing and early-stage business ideas in Nebraska, welcomed its new chief executive and investment officer, Mark Crawford, to its operations in June. Crawford previously worked for SFI Financial, a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm. Crawford’s experience includes investing capital [...]

Omaha moms launch Blogglebeans for child-grandparent interaction

The web changes every day. Children are constantly on the move. Blogglebeans, a new interface for grandparents to interact with their grandchildren, capitalizes on the perpetual motion of modern families. Several years ago some friends and colleagues at Ervin and Smith Advertising and Public Relations began observing a trend in their children: It was becoming increasingly [...]

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