Talent and Innovation Initiative: A Growing Help for Nebraska’s Businesses

Check back over the next month as we will be highlighting the different programs created this year by the Nebraska Legislature through the Talent and Innovation Initiative. Being an entrepreneur – or being involved in any capacity with a start-up — can be quite the challenge, yet successful entrepreneurs provide reward not only for themselves, but state economies [...]

Game Development & Starting a Company

Nebraska 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 the process of starting a company. Hall started a product called PMOG, later changed to The Nethernet, which focused on making [...]

Farritor’s Lessons on Angel and Venture Capital Funding

Funding will be the topic of our next series on Nebraska Entrepreneur. Big to small, the topic comes up in some form for most startups.   We asked former NASA robotics scientist and current Nebraska entrepreneur Shane Farritor for tips on how to get funding for startups.  Here’s what he had to say. University of [...]

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 [...]

Retirement is not the plan for one Nebraska entrepreneur

For 50 years, John Brasch has been building a legacy in the elderly care industry with his company, the J. Brasch Co. He’s started four companies and launched six products and now, at 70, Brasch has decided to give it another go. He will begin his fifth company and will begin selling his seventh product, the SafePresence Caregiver Communicator [...]

Nebraska Angels – John Brasch

John 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 can also check out more information by visiting their resource page on this site at http://www.nebraskaentrepreneur.com/resource/funding/nebraska-angels/

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 [...]

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 [...]