NCTA Entrepreneurship Programs Reach Adult Students, Main Streets
Current Information as of: May 10, 2010
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
Current Information as of: February 2, 2010
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
Current Information as of: March 8, 2010
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)
Current Information as of: January 14, 2010
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
Current Information as of: July 13, 2010
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
Current Information as of: July 13, 2010
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
Current Information as of: February 23, 2010
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, [...]
Buy Fresh, Buy Local Nebraska
Current Information as of: January 20, 2010
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 [...]
Center for Applied Rural Innovation
Current Information as of: February 2, 2010
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
Current Information as of: January 11, 2010
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 [...]
CropMetrics provides exclusive services for area farms
Current Information as of: July 12, 2010
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
Current Information as of: April 15, 2010
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
Current Information as of: July 21, 2010
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
Current Information as of: March 3, 2010
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 [...]
GROW Nebraska
Current Information as of: January 11, 2010
GROW Nebraska helps Nebraska entrepreneurs become sustainable businesses. Through training and technical assistance, GROW increases the survival rate of start-up businesses. GROW facilitates marketing and networking opportunities that help micro businesses in Nebraska increase their triple bottom line, and they actively work with members to create brand awareness. GROW provides these services to members at an [...]
Inaugural “Quick Pitch” Competition A Rousing Success
Current Information as of: March 1, 2010
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 [...]
Invest Nebraska Corporation
Current Information as of: January 11, 2010
Through the financial support of the public and private sectors, Invest Nebraska exists to improve access between emerging Nebraska-based businesses and the resources they need to more effectively and efficiently achieve their goals.
Kauffman Foundation Executive Stresses Understanding Market and Building Network
Current Information as of: March 17, 2010
Bo Fishback, vice president of entrepreneurship at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, gave practical advice to entrepreneurs gathered at the 2010 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship.
Fishback, who started his first company when he was 13 years old, said there are two things that matter disproportionately in a startup’s life: your market and your network.
“The importance of [...]
MarketPlace Offers Rural Entrepreneurs Support, Information, Networking and More
Current Information as of: March 29, 2010
Rural entrepreneurs get support, encouragement, practical information, ideas and networking opportunities at the annual Center for Rural Affairs (CFRA) MarketPlace event.
More than 525 people registered to attend the fourth Nebraskan event on February 23 and 24, 2010 at the Ramada Inn Convention Center in Kearney.
The event is making a difference, said Kathie Starkweather, CFRA’s director [...]
NBC Now Casting: America’s Next Great Restaurant
Current Information as of: March 30, 2010
Do you have an idea for America’s next great restaurant? Are you sitting on a billion dollar concept? If you think your restaurant idea has what it takes to go national and bring in millions of hungry Americans, read on…
From NBC and Magical Elves, the Emmy Award-nominated producers of [...]
