Invest Nebraska Provides Financing to Pro-Fit

Invest Nebraska Corp. announced today an investment in Pro-Fit Performance Club Fitting, L.L.C. (Pro-Fit). The investment is expected to aid Pro-Fit in developing and marketing the Pro-Fit Performance Club Fitting System, the company’s patented club fitting software system. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed. “Invest Nebraska’s capital provides us the ability to refine [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Intern Program Cuts Costs, Connects Interns, Employers

Check back over the next month as we will be highlighting the different programs created this year by the Nebraska Legislature through the Talent and Innovation Initiative. Entrepreneurs can face many challenges as their businesses gain steam. One of those challenges is actually two-fold: how to find and attract talented employees and how to pay [...]

How to catch the eye of a Nebraska Angel

Scaring up money for a business is never easy. Family members and trusted friends might be able to help out early on, but entrepreneurs with big dreams often need big money to turn those dreams into reality. That’s where the Nebraska Angels come into play. “Bootstraps can only get you so far, and then there [...]

NU NEWS RELEASE: New report highlights four Nebraska companies spun off from NU research

May 11, 2010 Four Nebraska companies that are spinoffs of University of Nebraska research are highlighted in a nationwide “success stories” report released today by The Science Coalition. The report – “Sparking Economic Growth: How federally funded university research creates innovation, new companies and jobs” – identifies 100 companies across the United States that trace [...]

Web Site Promotes South Platte Area Rural Entrepreneurs

When sisters Betty Sayers and Nancy Herhahn graduated from Holdredge High School, educators and parents told them they could be more successful if they left Nebraska. And so they did. Herhahn worked as a real estate company executive, living in Chicago and then San Diego. Sayers taught at a community college in Belcourt, N.D., then [...]

Silicon Prairie News Seeking National Exposure for Nebraska’s Entrepreneurs

The phrase “Midwestern character” conjures up a consistent, yet nebulous temperament, an image of someone determined, but humble who minds his or her own business and does that business well. While that unassuming resolve has no doubt been instrumental in shaping the central United States, that modesty can — on occasion — be something of a detriment. [...]

Turbine Flats Project Aims to Build Community Support for Startups

You’re not alone. Or at least you don’t have to be, especially if you’re an entrepreneur in Lincoln, Nebraska.  The Turbine Flats Project, an office space for startup businesses and a nonprofit organization, is working to build a culture in Lincoln that supports entrepreneurs. Matthew Wegener, president of the Turbine Flats board of directors and [...]