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 [...]

One-of-a-kind Opportunity for Lincoln Students

Junior Achievement of Lincoln is looking for the area’s most motivated students. Driven Youth Invitational (DYI) is a seven-week intensive program that gives students the knowledge and insight they need to compete in a changing economy. Each week, they’ll interact with and be mentored by some of Lincoln’s top entrepreneurs — and along the way, [...]

Video: Vestn Builds Startup on Ideas, Raises Seed Funding

Vestn helps individuals develop personal brands and institutions market their outstanding programs. Vestn was founded by Conner Dana, Brian Cary, and Phil Baylog at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The company started out as a way to network students at a school via their interests and skillsets and quickly became a branding solution for both the [...]

DailyMav.com – A Student Startup Focused on Training and Launching

Recently, daily deal websites such as Groupon, LivingSocial and Yipit have paved new paths in coupon-cutting. These websites offer deals and promotions for users’ local restaurants, events and services. One University of Nebraska at Omaha student took this idea further by making it exclusive. Senior management major Keith Fix developed DailyMav.com, a daily deal website [...]

Lights, Camera, Pitch! Nebraska Youth Pitch Their Business IDEAs for a Chance to Win Top Prize

Last in a three part series on the MarketPlace Conference. Part of the BIZ IDEA Summit included a video competition open to middle school through high school-aged students hoping to showcase their entrepreneurial skills. Students were asked to submit videos in two categories: personal business (outside of school/community), school-based business or community/organizational youth-led business. The young entrepreneurs [...]

Rare Earth Solar Co-Founder to Speak at 2012 Summit

Speaker Preview: 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship For Allen Kruse, co-founder and CEO of Rare Earth Solar, nothing has proven more important to starting a business than understanding the market. Just two years ago, Kruse was studying chemical engineering at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln when he met Joseph Brewer, a doctoral student researching solar technology. [...]

SelectOut promoting greater online privacy for all

Speaker Preview: 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship It’s one thing to “cover your tracks” if you’re ambling through the mud or shuffling through freshly fallen snow. But the online realm, where it’s much harder to keep tabs on who’s keeping tabs on you, is another thing entirely. Enter SelectOut. Founded by Calvin Pappas 18 months ago, SelectOut’s [...]

Student Run Grocery Store Still in the Works for Cody Residents

A grocery store in a small town is hard to come by, and for many small towns across Nebraska, there’s always the risk of having to travel several unnecessary miles just to get groceries. The food industry is a thriving market that stretches across the U.S. with stores such as Walmart, Safeway, and Hy-Vee. Rural areas [...]

Raikes School students paired with corporations for real-world education

Every year the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln takes on a new set of projects for its Design Studio program. The curriculum enables juniors and seniors at the Raikes School to work as technologists and business managers on real-world software development projects. The Design Studio [...]

UNL SIFE Group Starts Student-Run Web Business

SIFE Sales was started in 2001 under the name UNL Surplus Online Sales. The program was started as a way to provide goods no longer useful to the University to the general public.  In 2009 UNL Surplus began a transition to SIFE Sales. KOLN/KGIN recently did a story about the group.

Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship Helps Students Navigate Troubled Job Market

The most successful entrepreneurs are those who’ve been able to visualize opportunity where others see nothing at all. That propensity for pulling ideas out of thin air is indispensable in an ailing economy, where employment is increasingly hard to come by. In today’s rocky professional landscape, it’s safe to say a fair share of available jobs are those that don’t [...]