NxBizSuccess reaching out to entrepreneurs via portal, podcasts

As social media becomes more prevalent and newer, bolder ways of distributing facts, figures and fictions enter the picture, it seems the paradigm for acquiring and analyzing information shifts on a near daily basis.  Although this means more people are able to actively search out the information they seek (we live in a world where “Google” has [...]

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 but [...]

NebraskaEDGE bundles networking, education and growth into single package

While it’s relatively easy to set up a learning environment (often as simple as putting a teacher and at least one interested pupil in the same room), sustaining that educational ambiance proves a much more involved task. While traveling lecturers and keynote conference speakers undoubtedly impart some lasting knowledge to those who hear them, at least a portion of [...]

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 Raikes [...]

NDE encouraging earlier exposure to entrepreneurship

As is the case with reading, writing and even learning a foreign language, the earlier in life we’re exposed to crucial skills, the easier they are to pick up. Entrepreneurial expertise is no different. That’s why Gregg Christensen and others from the Nebraska Department of Education (NDE) are seeking to include more entrepreneurial options in the curricula [...]

Omaha Chamber of Commerce builds connections for starting businesses

Starting a business in Omaha or Lincoln seems like a challenging task when there are numerous national chain stores to compete against.  Many entrepreneurs have a difficult time finding the right resources to establish themselves in a tough market. For some, a chamber of commerce may be the right avenue toward success. Local chambers of [...]

High School Students Learn Real World Skills in Entrepreneurship Focus Program

On a Friday morning in late May, three young people huddle around a laptop, making last-minute tweaks to a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation. New, bright blue t-shirts printed with inspirational words and business names rest on a table nearby. Across the room, a large foam board model of Lincoln’s Haymarket displays representations of new businesses including some [...]

SCC Entrepreneurship Center Incubator Opens More Space

The Southeast Community College (SCC) Entrepreneurship Center incubator program in Lincoln opened additional business incubator space May 1, 2010.
Tim Mittan, the center’s director, said expanding the incubator office space within Southeast Community College’s building at 285 S. 68th Street Place will enable the incubator to add four new tenants to its current 13.
The SCC Entrepreneurship [...]

Heartland Conference extends entrepreneurial wisdom to high school students

For the better part of three decades, the Heartland Conference has provided interested parties a little face time with some of the biggest names from the Nebraska business scene. And earlier this month, the 25th Annual Heartland Conference for Free Enterprise — held in the University of Nebraska-Lincoln City Campus Union — extended that same [...]

SCC Entrepreneurship Center Provides Educational Sessions, Advice to Public

Ongoing business education opportunities and free business counseling are just two of the Southeast Community College (SCC) Entrepreneurship Center services open to the community.
The “Business and Bagels” business education series provides one-hour information sessions on topics like taxes and networking at the SCC Continuing Education Center, 301 S. 68th St. Place in Lincoln. The sessions, [...]

PK Partnership Class Boasts 90 Percent Small Business Success Rate, Tripling of Sales

Everyone’s heard horror stories about small business failure. Some sources peg the rate of new startups that plummet into the abyss during their first year at around 70 percent; others go so far as to posit that 9 out of 10 new businesses collapse annually. But for many entrepreneurs in south central Nebraska, 90 percent doesn’t signify [...]

Kimmel Brings Innovation to Businesses

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Contact: Connie Reimers-Hild
UNL Kimmel Education and Research Center
5985 G Road
Nebraska City, NE 68410
In these current economic times, businesses must continue to find new ways to be productive and continue to turn a profit.  This April, Dr. Connie Reimers-Hild will take this economy head on with an Innovation Retreat being held at the Kimmel [...]

Food Processing Center Helps Move Products from Stoves to Storefronts

Even though it’s something everyone needs on a daily basis, food is a tougher sell than you might think. For starters, the failure rate of new food products hovers well above 75 percent, with the New York Times entrepreneurship blog claiming 9 out of 10 new food items will fail to cut the mustard their [...]

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 [...]

Sorrisos Gourmet Pasta Sauce: From Family Recipe to Store Shelves

Sorrisos Gourmet Pasta Sauce from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo.
Learn about how Sorrisos Gourmet Pasta Sauce came in to existence and some of the resources that helped them along the way to build their business.
http://www.sorrisossauce.com/

Grow Nebraska Helping Nebraskas Small and Boutique Entrepreneurs

Grow Nebraska from Nebraska Entrepreneur on Vimeo.
Janell Anderson-Ehrke talks about GROW Nebraska and how they help entrepreneurs bring their products to market and the impact they have on economic development.

Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship Helps Students Navigate Troubled Job Market

The most successful entrepreneurs are those who’ve been able to visualize opportunity where others see nothing at all. That propensity for pulling ideas out of thin air is indispensable in an ailing economy, where employment is increasingly hard to come by. In today’s rocky professional landscape, it’s safe to say a fair share of available jobs are those that don’t [...]

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 entrepreneurs [...]

Valley County Sets New Paradigm for Rural Economic Growth

To many, the image of the young adult venturing out from their tiny hometown to seek the fortunes of the big city is an iconic slice of Americana. But Caleb Pollard, executive director of Valley County Economic Development, has every reason to believe big things can happen in small towns.
“Right now, there’s a prevailing attitude [...]