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AIM Institute gives businesses Information Technology education

Small businesses are probably aware of the importance of using technology to promote itself. However, technology is constantly changing and starting a business is daunting already without having to worry about learning all the information behind technology. Companies like the AIM Institute provide services to startups to help create a bridge to understand technology. The [...]

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 [...]

Allo Communications Helps Make Western Nebraska Viable for Global Business

In today’s global market, businesses require fast, reliable data and communication networks that simply didn’t exist in much of western Nebraska. What most people saw as a roadblock, Brad Moline considered an opportunity. In 2003, Brad and his partner, Russ Pankonin, started Allo Communications to provide the telecommunications support needed to help make rural Nebraska more [...]

Angel Investors to be Matched with Startups

If getting the resources to make your startup a success makes you wish for an angel on your shoulder, Invest Nebraska, a nonprofit corporation, may be able to help. Dan Hoffman, executive director, tells us how. Invest Nebraska also sponsors annual Venture Competitions across the state. Q: We talked before about how your Operational Assistance [...]

Are You Destined to be an Entrepreneur? Interview with Grant Stanley

[Our VIDEA contest in August produced a multitude of entries on entrepreneurs that they felt have good lessons to share. Grant Stanley of Contemporary Analysis was one of those.] Nebraska entrepreneur Grant Stanley recently sat down with us to talk about his experience starting Contemporary Analysis and entrepreneurs in general.    

Area Entrepreneur / Small Biz Resource Forums

Area Entrepreneur / Small Biz Resource Forums Coming to Central and Southeast Nebraska The Nebraska Enterprise Fund (NEF) is hosting two area forums focused on coordinated support for entrepreneurs and business development in Nebraska.  On November 30, 2010, the first “Area Entrepreneur /Small Biz Resource Forum” will be in Beatrice with the Beatrice Area Chamber [...]

Avoid These Five Mistakes With Angel Investors

Pitching a startup idea to an angel investor is exciting – the entrepreneur is meeting with someone who can fund his or her idea and help make a dream for a business come true. But too often, entrepreneurs make mistakes when approaching and meeting with angel investors, missteps that can cost them the equity capital [...]

Awesome Camp All Its Name Promises And More

The same technology that shrinks the world a little more each day — through phone lines and cell towers and mankind’s mastery of the wide open airwaves — also offers a level of workplace flexibility completely unfeasible only a decade ago. Working from home to avoid the morning commute is becoming more and more common, [...]

Basics to financing your small business with SBA loans and grants

This guest post was contributed by Todd Furasek, Vice President, Commercial Loans at Union Bank & Trust Company. It is very important that someone interested in owning a small business finds a business related to something he or she enjoys. A small business is a ton of work and if you don’t enjoy what you are doing, [...]

Big Omaha – Past, Present and Future

We recently sat down with Jeff Slobotski and Dusty Davidson of Silicon Prairie News to learn about the event Big Omaha.  The third annual event will be held May 11-13 this year.  Be sure to signup on their website and check back for updates as they begin to roll out announcements. Why Big Omaha was [...]

Big Omaha 2010 Keeps Entrepreneurial Momentum Strong

Even though last year’s Big Omaha proved successful enough to convince even the staunchest skeptics that entrepreneurship could flourish hundreds of miles inland from America’s coasts, that proof of concept didn’t quite cut it for Silicon Prairie News co-founder Dusty Davidson. To him, entrepreneurship is a science: initial results are all fine and good, but [...]

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.

Brad Bernthal – The Devils Surrounding Angels

2011 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 School Trying to attract angel investment into a company? Considering making an angel investment? This discussion will delve into some of the devilish details surrounding how to [...]

Branched Oak Farm Prospers Under USDA Auspices

Farming is easily Nebraska’s oldest profession. Frontiersmen and pioneers coaxed a livelihood out of the soil for years before the land they worked was even considered for statehood. And the USDA is doing its part to bring the venerable occupation into the 21st century by fostering relationships between consumers and local producers. The Branched Oak [...]

Brand strength and franchisee support contribute to success for Scooter’s Coffeehouse

Watch for additional articles over the next month on our new series about franchising. When Don and Linda Eckles opened the first Scooter’s Coffeehouse in 1998 in Bellevue, Neb., they weren’t just offering specialty coffee and warm service to their drive-thru customers. They were establishing a brand that the company would later build upon to [...]

BrightMix – from software consulting to product development

Dusty 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 a good partnership Funding product development – when and why Attracting and retaining the best for the team

Broken Bow Bison Ranch Wins Nebraska EDGE Honor

via IANR News GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — In 1994, Marty and Karen Bredthauer of Broken Bow began raising bison as an alternative to raising cattle on their 320-acre ranch. They sold their first bison meat the next year. Today, their Straight Arrow Bison Ranch is home to about 60 head of bison, a growing regional [...]

Build a Business in 54 Hours at Startup Weekend Omaha

If you’re interested in starting a business but procrastination or other obligations tend to get in your way, Startup Weekend Omaha may be just the kick start you need. In fact, in just 54 hours, you might leave as part of a new business. Startup Weekend Omaha, March 19-21, 2010 is advertised as a community-building [...]

Business Model Innovations – Joe Petsick, Proxibid

Proxibid started in 2003 with the task of taking one of the oldest industries - auctions - and bringing it online. Since 2003 Proxibid has held more than 35,000 auctions live online and increased its staff to just over 100. Proxibid was one of three companies that presented on a panel about business model innovations in information technology at [...]

Business Model Innovations – Matthew Wegener, ISoft Data Systems and the Turbine Flats Project

Matthew Wegener, founder, president and chief executive officer of ISoft Data Systems and co-founder and president of the Turbine Flats Project, was one of three companies that presented on a panel about business model innovations in information technology at the 2011 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference. In college Wegener took a part-time job to pay the [...]

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