Chris Miller Wants to Bring New Energy and Resources to Young Entrepreneurs

In 2010, the non-profit group Service Corps of Retired Entrepreneurs, or SCORE, awarded Chris Miller and his business partner Cole Strunkard with an Omaha Entrepreneur of the Year award. The award was given in response to the pair’s innovative property management company, DeltaREP. Now 27, Miller has not only founded a successful property management company, but also expanded operations [...]

UNL’s Jayem Subbiah bringing technology from the classroom to the marketplace

Entrance into India’s elite state universities is so notoriously difficult that America’s Ivy League routinely accepts many young Indians who fail to get in every year. Jeyam Subbiah has firsthand knowledge of how selective India’s state universities can be. He was born into an entrepreneurial family in India’s southern Tamil Nadu state, but though entrepreneurship [...]

Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program Update

Nebraska Entrepreneur sat down with Mark Gustafson to talk more about the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship program. Mark Gustafson, the founding director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, has been one of the [...]

Larry Keeley on the importance of continual innovation

Larry Keeley, a leading innovation and strategy consultant, spoke at The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. Keeley is a leading innovation and strategy consultant with the Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm that advises the world’s leading corporations and nonprofits on issues of strategy, organization and innovation. Keeley has worked [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Reinventing your company in a customer-controlled marketplace

Sean Moffitt, Founder and Chief Evangelist at Agent Wildfire and co-author of Wikibrands, is a well-recognized thought leader in company innovation, brand leadership, social influence marketing and online community building, marrying his passion for grassroots engagement, digital technologies and the brand. He has been an executive-level marketer, agency leader and consultant, in roles bridging the [...]

Nebraska Global wins Walter Scott award for entrepreneurship

University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken has announced the 2011 winner of one of the university’s most prestigious awards for entrepreneurship: the Walter Scott Entrepreneurial Business Award. This year’s Scott award winner is Nebraska Global, a Lincoln-based venture capital fund that invests in startup software companies in order to build a vibrant, competitive technology [...]

SIFE Students Put Entrepreneurship Principles in Motion at UNL

Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) have put the principles they practice into motion here at UNL. The student organization is operating an online auction system that resells surplus inventory for departments across campus. Although the online site was in operation for several years under the name UNL Surplus Online Sales, when SIFE took over its [...]

Innovation Night, The Coolest Night in Innovation

The Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship is hosting Innovation Night, The Coolest Night in Innovation on March 14, 2011 beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Embassy Suites, 1040 P Street Lincoln, Nebraska. The evening reception has two goals; first to honor current entrepreneurs with the Nebraska Distinguished Entrepreneur Award, this year’s recipients are: Charlie Hull & [...]

2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship this Friday

The fifth annual Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship will again be one of the premier events hosted in Nebraska during National Entrepreneurship Week (Feb. 19-26, 2011). The Summit on Entrepreneurship is sponsored by the Nebraska Business-Higher Education Forum, The Gallup Organization and the University of Nebraska. The Summit will be hosted at the Embassy Suites Omaha-LaVista [...]

NU Tech connects innovators to researchers, promotes development

For NUtech Ventures (pronounced “new tech” as in new technologies), success means creating new companies and jobs to spur economic development in Nebraska. NUtech’s team is composed of innovation “matchmakers” whose job it is to connect entrepreneurs with the ideas and resources they need to create viable startups. NUtech is a non-profit organization affiliated with [...]

Coach’s challenge sparks Agile Sports; Raikes School provides tools and experience

A challenge in 2006 from then University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) Cornhuskers Head Football Coach Bill Callahan sparked the development of Agile Sports, now a growing startup in Lincoln’s Haymarket.  Callahan wanted to improve how videos of play action are used in training. He also wanted a safer, easier way to get videos to players and [...]

Allied Strategy sets path for Raikes School startups

While the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) is a gateway to corporate positions for some graduates, others use this honors program education and experience to start them on a different path – launching their own companies. The startup stories of two Lincoln companies that raised significant outside capital demonstrate the ways the [...]

Heartland Conference extends entrepreneurial wisdom to high school students

For the better part of three decades, the Heartland Conference has provided interested parties a little face time with some of the biggest names from the Nebraska business scene. And earlier this month, the 25th Annual Heartland Conference for Free Enterprise — held in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus Union — extended that same [...]

Pastabilities Unlimited Bringing “Smiles” to Customers’ Faces

Although the millennium census posits the population of Firth, Nebraska, as a few people short of 570, David and Betsy Ashman have a found a way to put what’s a small town even by Midwest standards on the map. Their Sorrisos line of pasta sauce has been garnering culinary accolades and delighting palates for well [...]

Engler gives $20 million to support agribusiness at UNL

Audio Interview with James B. Milliken University of Nebraska alumnus and cattleman Paul F. Engler of Amarillo, Texas, announced today a $20 million gift to support programs in agri-business at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The gift from the Paul F. and Virginia J. Engler Foundation to the University of Nebraska Foundation’s Campaign for Nebraska: Unlimited [...]

Inaugural “Quick Pitch” Competition A Rousing Success

An “elevator pitch” is a bare-bones run-down of a business proposition, truncated so as to be deliverable in the time it takes an elevator to travel from the bottom floor to the top. So, it was only fitting that students hoping to win cash prizes for their budding business ideas took an elevator up three floors to [...]