AgilX utilizes client relationships, lean startup model to bootstrap GratisLite

If you want to meet two people who understand and employ agile development, it would be Dustin Clonch and Jake McElroy. Clonch and McElroy are the co-founders and operators of the aptly named AgilX, a software development company centered on GratisLite, a point-of-sale software that offers and meets the needs of clients, business partners and tasks [...]

Nebraska Wines Make Vinegars Divine: George Paul Vinegar Founder to Speak at NE Summit on Entrepreneurship

Speaker Preview: 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Gourmet wine vinegars made in a traditional style, aging for six months to five years and made from fruits grown in the Nebraska Sandhills — this is what George Johnson, his wife and three children envisioned when they created George Paul Vinegars. The Johnson family started growing grapes [...]

JP Rhea Talks Family, Business and Stewardship

Speaker Preview – 2012 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship The Rheas of Rhea Cattle Company have been active in agriculture in since 1872. James Rhea founded the family farm when he began breeding Percheron draft horses after the Civil War. Over the years, the Rhea farm near Arlington has been a respected producer of draft horses, [...]

Dundee Venture Capital focuses on funding web-based start-ups

No matter how brilliant an idea for a new business may be, without funds, an entrepreneur may find it hard to get that company going. In a paradox of needing money to make money, some turn to a venture capital company for that financial jump-start. Located in the Dundee neighborhood in Omaha, Neb., Dundee Venture Capital [...]

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Agricultural Flaming Innovations researches, designs advanced weed flaming products

In a field of soybeans, one Nebraska organic farmer attempts to solve a life-long problem: weed control. He doesn’t have many options. Cultivation removes weeds between crop rows but not within the rows. He could hire a crew for hand weeding, but that would be prohibitively expensive for row crops such as corn, soybean and sunflower. The [...]

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Liz Renner with Only10Pounds.com

Michael Ventrella, a contestant on the popular weight loss show “The Biggest Loser,” dropped 264 pounds in one season. Ventralla, along with numerous other contestants, inspired audiences to shed pound after pound with their remarkable transformations. But Liz Renner, owner of Only10Pounds.com, stresses the importance of losing small amounts of weight as well. “’The Biggest [...]

Investomers: What are they and how they could help your business

As any seasoned entrepreneur can tell you, investment can either help or hurt a company, depending on how it’s handled. That doesn’t change when investment comes from a customer, but the opportunities and risks tend to be a little different. For starters, customer investors tend to be more engaged, according to Isoft Data Systems CEO [...]

Brand strength and franchisee support contribute to success for Scooter’s Coffeehouse

Watch for additional articles over the next month on our new series about franchising. When Don and Linda Eckles opened the first Scooter’s Coffeehouse in 1998 in Bellevue, Neb., they weren’t just offering specialty coffee and warm service to their drive-thru customers. They were establishing a brand that the company would later build upon to [...]

Franchising Tips: Fast But Controlled Growth Fuels Complete Nutrition

Watch for additional articles over the next month on our new series about franchising. Ryan Zink and Cory Wiedel of Omaha were operating a GNC franchise when a career-altering revelation changed everything. Success in the nutritional supplement business, they realized, would be achieved by offering much more than just products. “We had come up with [...]

Insights Into Understanding and Pursuing Successful Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Are you interested in innovation and entrepreneurship?  The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at UNL would like to share this talk by Barry Uphoff.   Barry will provide a spectrum of insights into understanding and pursuing successful entrepreneurship and innovation. Barry Uphoff is Managing Principal at Capricorn Investment Group and has more [...]

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Ben Blecha with Sky Prosthetics and ACE Ortho Solutions

Ben Blecha has one leg. He lost the other to bone cancer at age 16 and suffered through pain and blood loss during his college years. The prosthetic device he was fitted with never worked quite right. But the struggles he faced as an amputee now define his career. Blecha established Sky Prosthetics in Benkelman, [...]

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 [...]

Startup Tribulations Overcome by Customer Relationships

Given his general apathy toward running, a business geared toward fitness was the last thing on Mike Ewoldt’s mind when he decided to launch Peak Performance with his brother Jim. Founded in February 1994, the business which was conceptualized over a late-night conversation and initially comprised merely an 1,800 square-foot store has now burgeoned into [...]

Entrepreneur Spotlight: Angie Svoboda with Good Life Health Services

Learn how Angie Svoboda has helped lead Good Life Health Services through all the changes in the pharmacy industry. Through changes in insurance and government regulations, they are constantly having to adapt and innovate in their business model. Be ready for change Embrace technology

Innovation Seminar Series 4: Orbiting the Giant Hairball

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering. It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] “Orbiting the Giant Hairball,” on Nov. 3rd, gives entrepreneurs [...]

Innovation Seminar Series 1: We Need Your Gift

[Shane Farritor's Innovation Seminar series was filmed live at the NET studios in Lincoln, NE. This series is designed to change the way you think about business and engineering.  It is designed to encourage you to work with imagination, to improvise, and to try unconventional approaches.] The series kicked off Oct 18, 2011 with “We [...]

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.    

L5 Building Nebraska’s Entrepreneurial Community Through Education

If you want to evoke a passionate response from L5 co-founder Kevin Hagemoser, just tell him the business he worked so hard to build is a networking group. He’ll be only too happy to correct you. “I abhorrently say it’s not a networking group,” Hagemoser said. “I call it a trade association for entrepreneurs.” According [...]

Invest Nebrasksa Wants to Live Up to its Name with East 2 West Venture Competition

On Nov. 18, Invest Nebraska is holding its third annual East 2 West Venture Competition, designed to celebrate, encourage and spotlight the unique conditions in Nebraska’s culture that result in such a rich entrepreneurial spirit. If you plan to enter, be sure and come with your sleeves rolled up. A tagline on Invest Nebraska’s website proclaims, [...]

Simplifying IT

Ameet Savant has always been a scientist at heart. Growing up in Mumbai, India, Savant could usually be found disassembling his toys – or for that matter the family radio and television – simply for the sake of understanding their inner workings. “In retrospect, the minor cuts, scrapes and 240-volt shocks were worth the natural honing of my [...]

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