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 [...]

University of Nebraska names Kiewit, Scott entrepreneurial award winners

University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken today announced the winners of two NU awards honoring extraordinary efforts in entrepreneurship in Nebraska: the Peter Kiewit Student Entrepreneurial Award and the Walter Scott Entrepreneurial Business Award. The Peter Kiewit award recognizes University of Nebraska students who have directed their energies, ideas and talents toward community and [...]

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Presents HIVE, an Organization Buzzing with Activity

HIVE is a collaborative, student-led community at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln structured around four platforms to help students come together: learning, collaborating, sharing and connecting. “Our premise is we want to be the space for students of any major who have an idea in any field; students that want to build something and we want [...]

Janita Pavelka Recognized with Nebraska Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator Award

Janita Pavelka of Holdrege was honored as the 2013 Nebraska Outstanding Entrepreneurship Educator at the Women’s Entrepreneur Conference held in Grand Island on March 20th. Hosted by the REAP Women’s Business Center in partnership with the U.S. Small Business Administration, the conference was a day of insights, inspiration and personal growth. Recipients of the award [...]

NMotion to Accelerate the Start-Up Scene in Lincoln

Six to 10 start-ups will be selected to participate in the first year of NMotion, a new start-up accelerator in Lincoln. NUtech Ventures, a non-profit affiliate of the University of Nebraska whose goal is to help form partnerships between industry and university research to advance technology, is just one of the many partners involved in [...]

Pipeline Fellowship Program Selected 5 Nebraska Entrepreneurs

The 2013 fellows of the Pipeline Entrepreneur Fellowship program have been selected, and five Nebraska entrepreneurs are among the 13 who made the cut. The Nebraska entrepreneurs who were chosen are: Paul Jarrett of Bulu Box, a vitamin supplement company; Ben Blecha of Ace Ortho Solutions, an animal rehabilitation company; Leandro Castro of MultiMech, materials [...]

Entrepreneurial UNL Startup Weekend is March 8-10

Developers, designers, marketers, product managers and startup enthusiasts are invited to collaborate in UNL Startup Weekend, March 8-10 in Avery Hall. Through hands-on workshops, participants will learn to put entrepreneurial ideas into action. Other topics include: transforming ideas into viable business models, creating a business model canvas to understand all the parts of your business [...]

Jim Krieger Receives Nebraska Entrepreneurship Outstanding Service Award

Jim Krieger, founder of the Krieger Family Foundation and chief financial officer of Gallup, was honored with the 2013 Nebraska Entrepreneurship Outstanding Service Award at the 7th Annual MarketPlace Nebraska Conference. The award is co-sponsored by the Nebraska Enterprise Fund and the Nebraska Entrepreneurship Task Force. Individuals or organizations that have demonstrated sustained and outstanding [...]

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: Khara Plicanic with KaBloom Studios

Khara Plicanic, owner of KaBloom Studios, joined Nebraska Entrepreneur to share about her journey with the evolving photography business she started a number of years ago. She talks about how the hardest decisions really have set her up for success. From moving from part-time to full-time, changing from shooting everything to shooting just weddings and [...]

Successful Entrepreneurship Program Returning in September

An entrepreneurship program that has gone on for the past six semesters is returning to Central Community College in Hastings and Grand Island on Sept. 11. The program, created by Lisa Tschauner, business occupations instructor and entrepreneurship coordinator, includes 10 sessions that teach students the steps they need to take to plan and start their own business. [...]

Nebraska Panhandle building strong leaders

Economic and community development in Western Nebraska is faced with some unique challenges: small and declining populations, great distances between communities and dense concentrations on agriculture. Thankfully, the Panhandle Area Development District (PADD) is actively involved in building strong communities out west. The organization is formed by and works to serve 11 counties in the [...]

Video: Establishing and leveraging advisory boards

The second breakout in the Succession and Re-invention track at the 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship was focused on establishing and leveraging advisory boards within your business. This topic comes up often and especially in family businesses. The panelists included Todd Duncan, Duncan Aviation and Jan Labenz, Labenz & Associates, LLC. To learn more about [...]

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 [...]

Entrepreneurship for Engineers class off to a great start

Engineering majors at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln are getting an opportunity to look at their industry in a different way this spring. A new class this semester, Entrepreneurship for Engineers, is designed for engineers who would like to become business people. According to UNL’s announcement website, “Good engineering is about making the world better, and good [...]

Christian Renaud on Maturing the Business Ecosystem in the Midwest

Speaker Preview: 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Christian Renaud enjoys reading about history, using vivid analogies, munching on pop-tarts, and helping entrepreneurs thrive in their own unique ecosystem. Lucky for Renaud, he gets to do at least one of those things – help budding entrepreneurs, of course – at his job at StartupCity Des Moines. StartupCity Des Moines is a [...]

JP Rhea Talks Family, Business and Stewardship

Speaker Preview – 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship The Rheas of Rhea Cattle Company have been active in agriculture in since 1872. James Rhea founded the family farm when he began breeding Percheron draft horses after the Civil War. Over the years, the Rhea farm near Arlington has been a respected producer of draft horses, [...]

NUtech Ventures Presents “Thinkers and Tinkerers” Series

NUtech Thinkers and Tinkerers Series What kicked off Oct. 24, NUtech Ventures will host a series of seminars intended to bridge the gap between innovation and the consumer marketplace. The seminar series, “Thinkers and Tinkers” will have 11 segments, with each topic covered by a different expert in the field. The goal at NUtech Ventures is [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 3: Brainstorming and Other Thinkertoys

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering. It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] The “Brainstorming” installation of the series, held Nov. 1, [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 2: Little Bets

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering. It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] Oct 20 brought “Little Bets,” devoted to understanding how [...]

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