CDR Announces January Lending Information Meeting

  Entrepreneurs with a business idea or business owners who want to grow — especially those struggling to find funding — should circle Jan. 11, 2012 on their calendars. That’s the day Community Development Resources will host a free lending information meeting at Southeast Community College in Lincoln. Deb Payne, manager of Alice’s Integrity Loan Fund at [...]

A Look Inside the Nebraska 2011 East 2 West Venture Competition

This post is from guest contributor Wade Sikkink:  After spending the first part of my professional life inside huge organizations (US Navy, Fortune 500 companies) I became interested in startups and entrepreneurship. I started dabbling in side business ventures while reading more and more about startups and the startup scene.  I’ve been involved in several [...]

NUtech Ventures Presents “Thinkers and Tinkerers” Series

NUtech Thinkers and Tinkerers Series What kicked off Oct. 24, NUtech Ventures will host a series of seminars intended to bridge the gap between innovation and the consumer marketplace. The seminar series, “Thinkers and Tinkers” will have 11 segments, with each topic covered by a different expert in the field. The goal at NUtech Ventures is [...]

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 [...]

EAS Participants Report Growing Revenues and New Jobs

In March, Nebraska launched an aggressive mentoring program to invest in the state’s entrepreneurs. Six months into the venture that uses the Gallup Entrepreneur Acceleration System, participating companies are reporting growth that can be measured in new jobs and increased revenue. “Since the start of the Nebraska EAS program, we’ve added three full-time jobs, two part-time [...]

Thinc Iowa announces full speaker lineup, two public parties

Limited amount of tickets still remain for Silicon Prairie News’ inaugural conference exploring the common ground between corporations and startups Des Moines, Iowa – Building on the momentum of the region’s escalating entrepreneurial activity and strengthened by the growing involvement of corporations in the global startup community, Silicon Prairie News has announced the speaker lineup [...]

PIPELINE brings unexpected opportunity to Nebraska entrepreneurs

This is the kind of pipeline we DO want getting in to our water system. No, we’re not talking about the TransCanada pipeline (that’s a whole different topic); we are talking about the PIPELINE Entrepreneurial Fellowship Program. With a recent $800,000, three-year challenge grant, given by the Kauffman Foundation and the dollar-for-dollar help from of [...]

Outstanding Speaker Lineup for the 2011 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference

[UPDATE: Registration has been extended until 3pm Wednesday, Sept. 21, 2011.] Innovation has been at the forefront in Nebraska with the new Talent and Innovation Initiative and many other objectives, both public and private. The need to foster innovation in key industries has taken hold as a clear way for Nebraska to grow its economy [...]

Startup lessons and insights from Nebraska Global and Agile Sports founders

On April 27, the Lincoln Young Professionals Group and its Entrepreneurship Committee brought together two local entrepreneurs, one seasoned and one fresh, to talk about their startup experiences. John Wirtz, COO of Agile Sports, is best known for the product Hudl, which is marketed to high schools, universities and professional sports teams to allow coaches and [...]

Midwest Technology Exchange coming this May

The Midwest Technology Exchange (mtechx) is a collaborative conference focusing on the development and commercialization of Midwestern technologies which have been developed in collaboration with the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) and the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC).   An internationally renowned group of speakers including Steve Burrill, Rich Bendis, [...]

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 [...]

Reinventing your company in a customer-controlled marketplace

Sean Moffitt, Founder and Chief Evangelist at Agent Wildfire and co-author of Wikibrands, is a well-recognized thought leader in company innovation, brand leadership, social influence marketing and online community building, marrying his passion for grassroots engagement, digital technologies and the brand. He has been an executive-level marketer, agency leader and consultant, in roles bridging the [...]

Nebraska Global wins Walter Scott award for entrepreneurship

University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken has announced the 2011 winner of one of the university’s most prestigious awards for entrepreneurship: the Walter Scott Entrepreneurial Business Award. This year’s Scott award winner is Nebraska Global, a Lincoln-based venture capital fund that invests in startup software companies in order to build a vibrant, competitive technology [...]

Nebraska Distinguished Entrepreneur Award Winners

On March 14th, 2011 UNL’s Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship hosted their annual Innovation Night to present their 2011 Nebraska Distinguished Entrepreneur Awards.  This years awards went to four different companies including Jack Henry with Global Industries, Charlie Hull and Clint! Runge with Archrival, Steve Kiene with Nebraska Global and John Lund with OFFWIRE. The purpose [...]

Opportunity assesment and evaluating a deal with John Moorhead

John Moorhead of Free Air Collective and Fiserv talks about the lessons he has learned in opportunity assessment through the 3 startups he’s been a part of.  The Startup Lessons event was put on by the Lincoln Young Professional Group on March 8th, 2011.  “Equity vs Cash”, what is your contribution, does it interest you…these [...]

UNeMed and UNMC to host seminar on Intellectual Property and Licensing Basics

On April 16, UNeMed and the University of Nebraska Medical Center have teamed up with the Licensing Executives Society (LES) to host a one-day seminar on Intellectual Property and Licensing Basics. This is part of LES’ popular Professional Development Series (PDS). The course will cover: • IP Basics: patents, trademarks, know-how and trade secrets. • Smart strategies [...]

Innovation Night, The Coolest Night in Innovation

The Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship is hosting Innovation Night, The Coolest Night in Innovation on March 14, 2011 beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the Embassy Suites, 1040 P Street Lincoln, Nebraska. The evening reception has two goals; first to honor current entrepreneurs with the Nebraska Distinguished Entrepreneur Award, this year’s recipients are: Charlie Hull & [...]

National Lemonade Day comes to Omaha

It’s not uncommon to see children sitting on the sidewalk in a neighborhood with a self-made lemonade stand in the spring or summer with the hopes of making a little money but on May 1, don’t be surprised by all the lemonade stands outside Omaha metro businesses. It’s all part of National Lemonade Day, an [...]

$5,000 Awarded to Students with Big Ideas

Students representing Nebraska high schools, area colleges and universities had three minutes to pitch their idea for a new business. The second annual 3-2-1 Quick Pitch Competition was held on Wednesday at Memorial Stadium in the Club Level Concourse. “This year we had over 50 competitors from all over Nebraska.  We’ve had a good diversity of [...]

2011 Summit Preview: Megan Hunt of CAMP Co-working Space

The 2011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship will feature lecturers, panel discussions and question and answer sessions from various experts on the climate of entrepreneurship in Nebraska. Among the speakers will be Megan Hunt of CAMP Co-Working Space. Hunt created CAMP, Omaha’s first creative co-working space. Since CAMP started in June 2010, the site has seen [...]

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