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 [...]

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 [...]

Partnership Grants Enable Collaboration Between Academics and Industry

The Nebraska EPSCoR/IDeA will soon be accepting proposals for private-sector research and development partnership grants. EPSCoR, or Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, is a National Science Foundation program founded by Congress. The purpose of EPSCoR is to strengthen research capabilities in areas where low federal funding is available. Nebraska became an EPSCoR state in 1991. Since [...]

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 2: Little Bets

[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.] Oct 20 brought “Little Bets,” devoted to understanding how [...]

Nebraska Global: Not Your Average Startup Fund

Good things grow in Nebraska. That’s the belief behind Nebraska Global – and they’re ready to back that up with $37.3 million. Steve Kiene, Patrick Smith and Doug Durham, who founded the software development fund in 2010, describe themselves as nerds with money. All three have extensive experience in business and technology and share a [...]

Innovation Series Aims to Access Hidden Potential

Creativity and innovation are buzzwords that get a lot of mileage among business owners. But what exactly is innovation, where does it come from, and how do you create it? Shane Farritor, a University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineering professor and entrepreneur, aims to answer these questions and more in his upcoming series of Innovation Seminars. With thought-provoking [...]

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 [...]

Nebraska Global Investment Fund Raises $37.3 million

[UPDATED] LINCOLN, Neb. — October 4, 2011 — Nebraska Global today announced that it has completed the capital raise portion of its Nebraska Global Investment Fund at $37.3 million. The fund is one of the largest software investment funds in the Midwest, and has attracted investors drawn to the idea of building sustainable, impactful and [...]

Agriculture Innovation with Mark Gustafson

Nebraska Entrepreneur sat down with Mark Gustafson to talk about agricultural innovation in Nebraska and the University of Nebraska’s role in that. Mark Gustafson is the founding director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska [...]

University of Nebraska highlights efforts in innovation and entrepreneurship

In conjunction with President Obama’s signing of the America Invents Act today – legislation that will streamline the patent process and foster economic development – the University of Nebraska is highlighting its key efforts in innovation and entrepreneurship that are helping to build a more competitive economy for Nebraska. The America Invents Act is the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program Update

Nebraska Entrepreneur sat down with Mark Gustafson to talk more about the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship program. Mark Gustafson, the founding director of the Engler Agribusiness Entrepreneurship Program and the Paul Engler Chair of Agribusiness Entrepreneurship of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln, has been one of the [...]

Perseverance pays off for Country Rhoads Homemade Jalapeño Jelly

[This is part of a series of articles over the next month focusing on one of Nebraska's key entrepreneurial areas: the food industry. Check back frequently as we explore local food producers, restaurants and the growers .] An empty nest, a green thumb and a clear jelly don’t exactly sound like ingredients in a recipe [...]

Larry Keeley on the importance of continual innovation

Larry Keeley, a leading innovation and strategy consultant, spoke at The Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management. Keeley is a leading innovation and strategy consultant with the Monitor Group, a global management consulting firm that advises the world’s leading corporations and nonprofits on issues of strategy, organization and innovation. Keeley has worked [...]

Taking your recipe from product to profit has never been easier

[This is part 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 local food producers, restaurants, and the growers .] With farmers’ markets blooming and themes of “Go Local” sweeping grocery stores, it is prime time for [...]

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 [...]

Raikes School students paired with corporations for real-world education

Every year the Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln takes on a new set of projects for its Design Studio program. The curriculum enables juniors and seniors at the Raikes School to work as technologists and business managers on real-world software development projects. The Design Studio [...]

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, [...]

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