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10 Mistakes Entrepreneurs Make – Event Wrapup

January 12th was the night Steve Glenn spilled the beans on the 46 businesses he’s started and lessons learned along the way. The founder and CEO of Executive Travel, one of the most successful and fastest growing travel management companies in the Midwest, spoke at Old Chicago in Downtown Lincoln to a crowd of 50 [...]

Abe Oommen – Genomics and the GeneSeek Experience

2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Genomics and the GeneSeek Experience Abe Oommen, General Manager, Neogen Corporation/GeneSeek Review of the growth and development of GeneSeek as a true Nebraska entity will be presented. Experiences with startup, fund raising, creating a management culture and tying it all up to an exit strategy should be of interest to [...]

Agile Sports and Stephanie Healy talk about growth

2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship How to rapidly grow a Nebraska startup – unlimited vacation and Jets tickets Brian Kaiser, CTO, Agile Sports Technologies In four years, Agile Sports has grown from its three founders to 30 employees and from one devoted customer (the University of Nebraska Husker football team) to 2500 teams in 48 [...]

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.    

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 Video Wrapup

Check out some videos from Big Omaha 2010.  Nebraska Entrepreneur did a couple interviews with attendees. If you’re reading this on the video page, follow the link for more videos. Big Omaha 2010 Welcome from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo. Jeff Slobotski from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo. David Hauser from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo.

Bo Fishback: The Big Picture

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…

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Business Model Innovations – Paul Eurek, Xpanxion

Paul Eurek, chief executive officer and chairman of Xpanxion, 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. Xpanxion’s business model is very unique in that it is not just an offshore outsourcing company, but rather a company that combines offshore [...]

Caleb Pollard and the Impact Entrepreneurship Has On Economic Development

There 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 Development, goes through the results they’ve seen and the impact it has had on the community. Caleb Pollard – Valley County Economic [...]

Capital Insights – Interview with Archrival

On November 30th the Lincoln Young Professionals Group presented their new entrepreneurship series called Capital Insights. To kick it off they had some of Lincoln’s finest young entrepreneurs take the stage in an informal fireside chat with the founders of Archrival, Clint! Runge and Charles Hull. For more on this great event, you can check [...]

Collaborative Work Spaces and the Accelerating Effects on Business

Collaborative Work Spaces and the Accelerating Effects on Business Matthew Wegener, President & CEO, ISoft Data Systems and Turbine Flats Turbine Flats is an idea community and home to 10 early stage and start-up businesses. In this session, Matthew Wegener will discuss the businesses that are taking root at Turbine Flats today. He will explain [...]

Collin Caneva – Lincoln YPG Startup Lessons

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Cornstalks demonstration night

The Cornstalks demonstration night is intended to provide Silicon Prairie region companies with an opportunity to highlight their products and technologies. This first iteration of demonstration night included 10 companies highlighting primarily software and web-enabled technologies as well as being new or young (less than 18 months old) to the marketplace. The goal of the [...]

Dave Hall – Restore A Muscle Car

It’s not always possible to make a hobby into a successful and profitable business.  However, one Lincoln businessperson found a way to make a passion for cars into a successful restoration business. Dave Hall sat down with members of the Lincoln Young Professionals Group on July 8th to talk about how he started Restore a [...]

Discovery & Innovation: Dusty Davidson – Next Generation Projects Inside a New Venture

Dusty Davidson, Founder Silicon Prairie News, Owner/Founder BrightMix, Co-Owner Tripleseat Next Generation Projects Inside a New Venture Dusty will talk about the process that his company Tripleseat went through to transition from a side-project inside of another organization, to a venture-backed software company with customers across the country. This includes the customer development process of [...]

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 [...]

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