RockDex earns local and national attention

RockDex, a company in Omaha, lets bands learn how they really rate with fans based on Internet buzz. Their software application tracks data like band mention and song plays on social media sites and other Internet venues, including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and music blogs. RockDex compiles, analyzes and presents the data so that musicians, managers, [...]

Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture Teaches Rural Entrepreneurship

The University of Nebraska’s Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture  - Curtis (NCTA) wants young people to make their living in rural Nebraska and offers unique programs to help them succeed. “We teach entrepreneurship across our entire curriculum,” said Weldon Sleight, Ph.D., dean of NCTA. Entrepreneurial skills can help rural residents to establish and maintain both agricultural [...]

MarketPlace Offers Rural Entrepreneurs Support, Information, Networking and More

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, [...]

Inaugural “Quick Pitch” Competition A Rousing Success

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 [...]