NCTA Entrepreneurship Programs Reach Adult Students, Main Streets

In a previous post, Nebraska Entrepreneur looked at two Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture – Curtis (NCTA) programs that help young people establish businesses in rural Nebraska: the 100 Beef Cow Ownership Advantage Program and the 100 Acre Advantage Program.
In this post, Nebraska Entrepreneur reports on two additional NCTA programs that teach the “art of ownership”: [...]

2010 Invest Nebraska Venture Competitions Planned

NebraskaEntrepreneur.com talks to Dan Hoffman, executive director of Invest Nebraska, about their Venture Competitions. Invest Nebraska is a nonprofit corporation that advises and invests in entrepreneurial businesses in Nebraska. In future posts we’ll talk with him about other Invest Nebraska activities and opportunities.
Q: What are the Venture Competitions you organize?
A: Last year we had six [...]

2010 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Fosters Idea Sharing and Networking

Interest among young Nebraskans in starting a business is high. According to a book published by Gallup, more than half of Nebraskan college-age students want to start their own business. However, research revealed gaps in the education, training, skills, resources and general support entrepreneurs need to successfully launch businesses.
The annual Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship is [...]

4H – EntrepreneurShip Investigation (ESI)

EntrepreneurShip Investigation (ESI) is an exciting, interactive, and comprehensive curriculum project designed for youth, ages 10-19.  ESI uses a variety of tools to help participants develop their entrepreneurial skills and find their business niche.  Through exciting activities, case studies and current technology, participants are transformed into budding entrepreneurs!
After completing all levels of the curriculum, youth [...]

ABC News features Nebraska Entrepreneur resource GROW Nebraska

ABC’s News Article “Rural Enterprise on the Rise” highlights GROW Nebraska and how beneficial membership can be for small businesses within the state. The article also showcases Katrina Frey of Heavenly Creations and John Marquis of Ogallala Bay Rum as each explains how GROW has helped take their business to the [...]

Advice for Nebraskan family businesses successful at UNL

As the Baby Boom generation continues retiring from years of working, their predecessors are beginning to fill the gaps left behind. Those inheriting a business may not know to effectively keep their family business moving forward after the previous generation.
Dave Specht took on the challenge of providing consultation and guidance for family businesses.  His work [...]

AIM Institute

The AIM Institute is a not-for-profit membership organization that provides entrepreneurship and information technology leadership to Nebraska and the surrounding region.  AIM provides a range of services and programs to build individual and organizational capacity in effectively applying IT to business development, workforce recruitment and career development.   AIM’s signature annual event is Infotec.  IT professionals, [...]

AIM Institute expands to Lincoln, opens office at University of Nebraska Technology Park

News Release
Lincoln, Neb.—March 23, 2010—The AIM Institute of Omaha, a nonprofit membership organization providing information technology leadership to Nebraska and the region, announced it has expanded its outreach abilities by opening an office in Lincoln at the University of Nebraska Technology Park.
The organization has had a strong presence in Omaha since its founding in 1992. [...]

Bellevue Chamber of Commerce

Since 1961, the Bellevue Chamber of Commerce has been a voluntary, membership-supported organization of business, industrial and professional people who are dedicated to developing, promoting and maintaining a sound and healthy economic climate for Bellevue. The Bellevue Chamber is a non-profit organization with over 550 members working together to enhance the eastern Sarpy County business [...]

Big Omaha acting as conduit for Midwest’s entrepreneurial energies

Sometimes, bigger is better. At least, that’s the philosophy the Silicon Prairie News staff — the organizers of this year’s Big Omaha event — are adhering to.

Bio Nebraska Life Sciences Association (Bio Nebraska)

Bio Nebraska Life Sciences Association (Bio Nebraska) was formed in 2005 as a nonprofit trade association dedicated to the development and growth of Nebraska’s bioscience industry through:

Supporting basic research in the life sciences
Aiding in the development of a highly educated work force; and
Providing a welcoming environment for attracting new and expanding businesses

In Nebraska, the life [...]

Buy Fresh, Buy Local Nebraska

Buy Fresh, Buy Local Nebraska is an outreach and marketing initiative to promote and support local foods.  The initiative began in 2006 after much research by a group of consumers, farmers, non-profits and small local businesses that wanted to create something of benefit for all Nebraska communities.  With on-going grass roots support, it is a [...]

Catholic Charities – Microbusiness Training and Development Program

Of the many programs offered by the Catholic Charities, Inc of Omaha, this program is designed to assist persons who want to start their own small business. The Microbusiness Training and Development Project offers training in business skills, micro-loans and ongoing technical assistance. Classes are available in Spanish, and referrals are made for English training. [...]

Center for Applied Rural Innovation

Mission Statement:
To help create a rural community and agricultural structure that is economically viable, environmentally sound, socially acceptable and sustainable into the future. Our foci include leadership, sustainable agriculture, and economic and community development through education and research.
CARI is the focal point within the University of Nebraska–Lincoln for communities and individuals to obtain information and [...]

Center for Rural Affairs – Rural Enterprise Assistance Project

Mission: REAP is a business development program with the Center of Rural Affairs. Its mission is to strengthen rural communities through small, self-employed business development.
Services: It provides individuals with business management training, technical assistance, lending capital, loan packaging, and networking opportunities for starting and growing a business. Roundtables and/or associations of micro-entrepreneurs are formed in [...]

Contemporary Analysis Does It By The Numbers

Grant Stanley is a numbers man. By submitting meticulously organized data to the siren song of mathematics, he can tell you when your roof will leak, when your transmissions will fail and even the one day a year when you have the best chance of meeting that someone special. A lifelong entrepreneur who got his start [...]

CropMetrics provides exclusive services for area farms

Expansive fields of crops are common sites in Nebraska. Behind every field there’s a specific science that focuses on the best way to plant, irrigate and harvest these crops.  Many farmers don’t have the proper equipment to yield the best results. This is where Nick Emanuel and CropMetrics come in.
Emanuel, a native of North Bend, [...]

Distinguished Entrepreneur Awards Recognize Nebraska’s Most Potent Innovators

Nothing entices a gambler to give the slot machine lever a few more tugs more than seeing the guy on the next stool cupping his hands, spilling more quarters than he catches. Witnessing others reap the rewards of a risky venture can galvanize us, give us the courage to stare down peril in the name [...]

Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program takes shape

The Paul F. and Virginia J. Engler Foundation donated $20 million to the University of Nebraska at Lincoln earlier this year in an effort to create a program focused on finding students with entrepreneurial drive and providing those students with the resources to help educate them in successful agribusiness.
The program is in its infancy but [...]

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 Possibilities [...]

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