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About 15 years ago, Hani Haider had an idea. Haider, a biomedical engineer and professor of orthopedic surgery research at the University of Nebraska Medical Center, thought hip and knee replacement surgeries could be better. The...
April 26, 2013Six 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...
March 26, 2013Ben Pankonin, CoFounder Social Assurance Building a product where an industry is already at, technology wise, is an easy task. But building a new product that matures an industry, and a big one at that, is no small task. To create...
March 21, 2013Invest 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...
March 7, 2013Created out of a focus on health and nutrition, Omaha-based Little Red Barn Beef is sharing how it believes cattle should be raised and ultimately reach consumers using the power of eCommerce. Focused on preserving the famous...
February 11, 2013Invest 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...
February 8, 2013In recent years, the world of book publishing has been turned on its ear. Internet, software and rapidly changing printing technologies have fueled the rise of book self-publishing, opening the floodgates to writers who can publish...
February 7, 2013Chairman Winsley Durand III welcomed two new board members and a new advisory committee member during the recent Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) annual Board of Directors meeting. New board members include Cassie Seagren, executive...
November 7, 2012The Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) has announced the addition of Terrence Coleman to the staff. Coleman is working as a business loan officer primarily in the Omaha area, but is available to assist with lending across the state....
October 25, 2012Mike Betzer, CEO of Social Dynamx Mike Betzer, CEO of Social Dynamx, presented his talk ‘Social Technology Will Change Business Forever’ to students of UNL’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. An...
October 18, 2012This is the final piece in a multi-part series about business acquisitions. Nebraska business owners, investors and support professionals tell Nebraska Entrepreneur about the merger and acquisition (M&A) process and their...
October 16, 2012Mark Crawford, CEO, Invest Nebraska Invest Nebraska, a venture development organization founded in 2002 that advises and invests in innovative, growing and early-stage business ideas in Nebraska, welcomed its new chief...
October 12, 2012ScanMed, an industry leader in MRI coil technology, has announced the closing of a $1.2 million investment round. The round was led and partially funded by Invest Nebraska Corp. The company will use the funding to support expansion...
September 28, 2012Vestn 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...
August 31, 2012This is the first article in a series about business acquisitions. Nebraska business owners tell Nebraska Entrepreneur about the acquisition process, what they learned and how they knew the timing was right to sell. When he started...
June 14, 2012“Sharp” is an apt word for both the activities and the owner-operators of Milestone Inspired Composites. At Milestone, locally sourced aggregate – think bottle and window glass, porcelain, mirror and stone scrap...
May 9, 2012Mark Carson started Fat Brain Toys out of the garage of his house based on the curiosity of his son. They now have 45 full time employees and up to 250 employees during the holiday season. Below the video you will find several...
April 27, 2012Three years ago, Nick Bowden co-founded a community planning and landscape architecture firm based on citizen involvement in the design and planning process. But he met a roadblock with the “citizen-source” approach. Public...
April 26, 2012An upcoming webinar, “Crowdfunding, Small Business and the Federal Securities Laws,” will address the legalities of online crowdfunding and the Entrepreneur Access to Capital Act signed by President Obama on April...
April 16, 2012How did an animation studio specializing in mobile games land in the Omaha area? One might say it started with an iPhone. “I saw the possibility of telling stories through the device,” Ben Vu said. In 2008, Vu bought an iPhone...
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Videos:
Ben Pankonin, CoFounder Social Assurance Building a product where an industry is already at, technology wise, is an easy task. But building a new product that matures an industry, and a big one at that, is no small task. To create...
March 21, 2013Mike Betzer, CEO of Social Dynamx Mike Betzer, CEO of Social Dynamx, presented his talk ‘Social Technology Will Change Business Forever’ to students of UNL’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. An...
October 18, 2012Vestn 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...
August 31, 2012Mark Carson started Fat Brain Toys out of the garage of his house based on the curiosity of his son. They now have 45 full time employees and up to 250 employees during the holiday season. Below the video you will find several...
April 27, 2012Nebraska Entrepreneur recently attended a talk at the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The speaker was Justin Hall and the topic focused on game development and...
December 2, 2011Most entrepreneurs have amazing stories about how far they’ve come to fulfill their dreams, but how many had to move to a different country, learn another language and be knowledgeable about multi-government regulations...
October 14, 2011Patrick Smith, Principle and COO of Nebraska Global brings the good, the bad and the ugly of venture capital in Nebraska. The amount of venture capital being moved in the state ranks Nebraska as 52nd, even behind DC and Puerto...
September 16, 20112011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship The Devils Surrounding Angels Brad Bernthal, Director of the Silicon Flatirons Center’s Entrepreneurship Initiative at CU-Boulder and Associate Clinical Professor at Colorado Law...
March 29, 2011John Moorhead of Free Air Collective and Fiserv talks about the lessons he has learned in opportunity assessment through the 3 startups he’s been a part of. The Startup Lessons event was put on by the Lincoln Young Professional...
March 18, 2011Dusty Davidson met with Nebraska Entrepreneur to talk about BrightMix and their newest product Tripleseat. BrightMix transition from consulting to product development How a company makes the transition What goes in to making...
January 24, 2011John Brasch, President of the Nebraska Angels talks about their group and how they strive to help entrepreneurs and businesses in Nebraska. For more information on the Nebraska Angels please visit their website at http://www.nebraskaangels.org You...
October 12, 2010There are many ways for communities to pursue economic development, but entrepreneurship pure and simple, has been the driving force behind growth in Valley County. Caleb Pollard, Executive Director of Valley County Economic...
Caleb Pollard - Valley County Economic Development from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo.
May 20, 2010Grow Nebraska from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo. Janell Anderson-Ehrke talks about GROW Nebraska and how they help entrepreneurs bring their products to market and the impact they have on economic development. Read More →
February 17, 2010Jay Wilkinson talks about his many different business ventures, why he choose to stay in Nebraska and how changing business models is not always a bad thing. Thank you to Silicon Prairie News for hosting this video. Read More →
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