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 [...]

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 [...]

CoWork Lincoln About Collaboration and Community

Lincoln is a city that has a sincere appreciation for both art and industry. One only has to take a stroll downtown or through the Haymarket area to see thriving examples of both, sometimes paired together. With access to resources provided by the local schools, low energy costs, and a number of state resources for [...]

Video: Opening Summit Keynote Christian Renaud

Startups – Midwest Style Opening keynote for the 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship was Christian Renaud of Startup City Des Moines and Present.io. Face Reality Rethink Infrastructure Forget Ownership Shut up and Build it  

Business Incubator Launches in Scottsbluff

An entrepreneurial renaissance is taking shape across Western Nebraska and rural communities stand to reap the economic benefits. On Feb. 22, Western Nebraska Community College unveiled a business incubator program at its John N. Harms Advanced Technology Center. The program will facilitate economic development in the Panhandle by helping entrepreneurs break down traditional barriers to [...]

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 [...]

Nebraska Global: Not Your Average Startup Fund

Good things grow in Nebraska. That’s the belief behind Nebraska Global – and they’re ready to back that up with $37.3 million. Steve Kiene, Patrick Smith and Doug Durham, who founded the software development fund in 2010, describe themselves as nerds with money. All three have extensive experience in business and technology and share a [...]

PIPELINE brings unexpected opportunity to Nebraska entrepreneurs

This is the kind of pipeline we DO want getting in to our water system. No, we’re not talking about the TransCanada pipeline (that’s a whole different topic); we are talking about the PIPELINE Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program. With a recent $800,000, three-year challenge grant, given by the Kauffman Foundation and the dollar-for-dollar help from of [...]

Nebraska Global Investment Fund Raises $37.3 million

[UPDATED] LINCOLN, Neb. — October 4, 2011 — Nebraska Global today announced that it has completed the capital raise portion of its Nebraska Global Investment Fund at $37.3 million. The fund is one of the largest software investment funds in the Midwest, and has attracted investors drawn to the idea of building sustainable, impactful and [...]

Business Model Innovations – Matthew Wegener, ISoft Data Systems and the Turbine Flats Project

Matthew Wegener, founder, president and chief executive officer of ISoft Data Systems and co-founder and president of the Turbine Flats Project, was one of three companies that presented on a panel about business model innovations in information technology at the 2011 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference. In college Wegener took a part-time job to pay the [...]

Startup Weekend Returns to Omaha

Time and money are two roadblocks faced by every entrepreneur, but with just $75 and 54 hours, you can jump-start your ideas and maybe even launch a business. Startup Weekend Omaha is back.  From Sept. 16-18, business people, creatives and developers will converge at the University of Nebraska at Omaha’s Mammel Hall for a unique [...]

Community CROPS supports local entrepreneurship, offers fresh food

[This is part of a series of articles over the next month focusing on one of Nebraska's key entrepreneurial areas: the food industry. Check back frequently as we explore local food producers, restaurants and the growers .]   William Shakespeare once famously asked: What’s in a name? For local non-profit organization Community CROPS, there’s a [...]

Taking your recipe from product to profit has never been easier

[This is part of a series of articles over the next month to focus on one of Nebraska's key entrepreneurial areas: the food industry. Check back frequently as we explore local food producers, restaurants, and the growers .] With farmers’ markets blooming and themes of “Go Local” sweeping grocery stores, it is prime time for [...]

Collaborative Work Spaces and the Accelerating Effects on Business

Collaborative Work Spaces and the Accelerating Effects on Business Matthew Wegener, President & CEO, ISoft Data Systems and Turbine Flats Turbine Flats is an idea community and home to 10 early stage and start-up businesses. In this session, Matthew Wegener will discuss the businesses that are taking root at Turbine Flats today. He will explain [...]

Technology Park provides crucial education community for entrepreneurs

Networking’s most commonly spouted precept emphasizes social connections over academic prowess, that is to say, “it’s not what you know, but who.” Sometimes, however, the advantageous nature of those professional relationships stems from the fact that the “who” you do know occasionally knows the “what” you don’t. At least, that’s the case for i2rd, a technological research [...]

Tech Park lab space gave local agricultural biotechnology firm GeneSeek room to grow

One hundred years ago, roughly 2 billion people walked the Earth. Today, more than three times that amount attempt to eek out an existence, struggling and competing for the planet’s increasingly scant resources. As the world’s population balloons, the demand for sustenance expands with it. In less than 20 years, humanity will require at least [...]

Central Nebraskan incubator creates jobs, helps establish entrepreneurs

Renting or buying an office space for a new business can put a business under before it even gets started. For nearly 20 years, Central Community College has been providing a service to visionary entrepreneurs by helping with the most basic essentials such as finding rental space, office supplies and networking. Located in the heart [...]

NDE encouraging earlier exposure to entrepreneurship

As is the case with reading, writing and even learning a foreign language, the earlier in life we’re exposed to crucial skills, the easier they are to pick up. Entrepreneurial expertise is no different. That’s why Gregg Christensen and others from the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) are seeking to include more entrepreneurial options in the curricula [...]

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, [...]

Halo Institute Bridges Gap Between Ideas and Investments

The costs of starting an independent business are sometimes a roadblock for success.  That’s where business incubators step in.  These incubators provide assistance for initial costs and provide a bridge between ideas and investments. The Halo Institute, a relatively new Omaha business incubator, provides area businesses with the resources and guidance to make their ideas [...]

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