Geneva State Bank’s history of business, community and service

The Geneva State Bank has been serving Geneva and the surrounding area since 1899. The bank was located on the second floor of the Temple fraternity building in downtown Geneva until the building was lost in a fire in the early 1900s. The bank, however, resumed normal operations in a temporary location the very next [...]

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 [...]

Video: Joining the Family Business – Succession and Re-Invention

Dave Specht, coordinator of the family business programs at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL), facilitated the Succession and Re-invention track at the 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship. This first track focused on those joining the family business (or not) and what those on the panel have learned through that process. Betsy Branscombe, Speedway Motors, Inc. J.P. Rhea, [...]

Summit panel to discuss advisory boards in family business

For many business owners, the outside perspective of an advisory board can shed a helpful light on the inner workings of their companies. At an 11 a.m. breakout session of the 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship on Feb. 24, a panel will discuss the topic of family businesses and advisory boards, a resource that Certified [...]

Branscombe excels in new role with family business

Speaker Preview: 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship A self-described “girly girl,” Betsy Branscombe never thought she would be involved in the world of dirt-track racing and street rods. But that’s exactly where she landed in March 2009 when she took on the role of e-commerce manager at Lincoln’s Speedway Motors. A role at Speedway would [...]

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, [...]