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 [...]

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 [...]

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

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 [...]

Local sourcing brings joy to Lincoln chef

[This is the first of a series of articles over the next month to focus on one of Nebraska's key entrepreneurial areas: the food industry. Check back frequently as we explore restaurants such as Bread and Cup and small food producers.] It’s Saturday morning and Kevin Shinn has no idea what he’s serving for dinner. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

What’s on your bookshelf? Successful entrepreneurs and what they read

“The only people who don’t keep learning are the arrogant.” That’s a nugget of wisdom Pam Dingman picked up from author John Maxwell. Like most successful entrepreneurs, Dingman is driven to keep learning. John Jantsch, author of “Duct Tape Marketing” and the “Referral Engine,” wrote that curiosity is a trait necessary for business success. Curiosity is what drives [...]

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 [...]

Discovery & Innovation: Dusty Davidson – Next Generation Projects Inside a New Venture

Dusty Davidson, Founder Silicon Prairie News, Owner/Founder BrightMix, Co-Owner Tripleseat Next Generation Projects Inside a New Venture Dusty will talk about the process that his company Tripleseat went through to transition from a side-project inside of another organization, to a venture-backed software company with customers across the country. This includes the customer development process of [...]

Keynote: Moglia shares insights, lessons on business

Joe Moglia is one of the most recognized names in the heartland. Whether it’s through the Omaha Nighthawks or TD Ameritrade, Moglia has made an impact on Nebraska with his knowledge and expertise on business. Before joining TD Ameritrade a decade ago, Moglia worked for Merrill Lynch in New York. After 17 years there, he moved [...]

Entrepreneurial Advice: The Value of Having and Using an Advisory Board

Entrepreneurs, you know who you are. You were born with an independent spirit. You are successful in part because you forge ahead when others stop to check the direction of the wind.  Those of you who build businesses that thrive have also learned that even a maverick needs a few key advisors. When he stops [...]

BrightMix – from software consulting to product development

Dusty Davidson met with Nebraska Entrepreneur to talk about BrightMix and their newest product Tripleseat. BrightMix transition from consulting to product development How a company makes the transition What goes in to making a good partnership Funding product development – when and why Attracting and retaining the best for the team

Lessons Learned: Jim Terrano Shares Wisdom Gained Along the Way

Entrepreneurs today have something Jim Terrano wishes he would have had in 1974; role models. “I didn’t have a good set of mentors or examples in front of me and so I had to go learn all of this on my own through trial and error,” the president and CEO of TELCOR said. “I think that [...]

Mike Murman shares field notes from growing businesses

Mike Murman knows a little something about growth. In 2007, Inc. magazine recognized Murman’s company, Pen-Link, as one of the fastest-growing private businesses in the United States. This year, the entrepreneur’s newest venture, Glacial Till Winery, opened a satellite tasting room and expects to double the amount of wine produced last year. When he was [...]

Why Not Here?

Entrepreneur Returns Home to Build Communications Business Home for Brad Moline was a farm in Chase County. This is windswept corn country where Nebraska and Colorado meet.  The pickup trucks have number 72 on their license plates and the county seat of Imperial has fewer than 2,000 residents. When Brad was looking for a place [...]

Prairieland Connects Consumer with Farmer

The past two years have been rough for dairy farmers. The combination of low milk prices combined with historically high production costs made 2009 one of the worst years on record for the dairy industry, according to the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute. Like most U.S. dairy farms, Prairieland Dairy just outside of Firth,Nebr.,recorded [...]

Dave Hall – Restore A Muscle Car

It’s not always possible to make a hobby into a successful and profitable business.  However, one Lincoln businessperson found a way to make a passion for cars into a successful restoration business. Dave Hall sat down with members of the Lincoln Young Professionals Group on July 8th to talk about how he started Restore a [...]

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