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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...
January 3, 2012As 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...
December 28, 2011Watch 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...
December 22, 2011Watch 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...
December 20, 2011Are 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...
December 13, 2011Ben 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...
December 9, 2011On 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...
December 7, 2011Given 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...
November 29, 2011Learn 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...
November 15, 2011[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,...
November 14, 2011[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...
November 9, 2011[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...
November 9, 2011If 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...
November 9, 2011On 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...
November 7, 2011Ameet 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...
November 7, 2011Your staff is growing, your market is expanding, you are walking a fine line between running the business and still being involved with the process. Sound familiar? So how do you keep true to your roots and let go to let your...
October 27, 2011Creativity 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...
October 17, 2011In 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...
October 17, 2011Most entrepreneurs have amazing stories about how far they’ve come to fulfill their dreams, but how many had to move to a different country, learn another language and be knowledgeable about multi-government regulations...
October 14, 2011Clay Ramsey left his corporate job with Cabelas in order to follow his passion of owning his own business as well as the opportunity to move back to his families home town. This is the story of the lessons that Clay learned along...
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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...
December 13, 2011On 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...
November 15, 2011[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,...
November 14, 2011[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...
November 9, 2011[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...
November 9, 2011Most entrepreneurs have amazing stories about how far they’ve come to fulfill their dreams, but how many had to move to a different country, learn another language and be knowledgeable about multi-government regulations...
October 14, 2011Clay Ramsey left his corporate job with Cabelas in order to follow his passion of owning his own business as well as the opportunity to move back to his families home town. This is the story of the lessons that Clay learned along...
October 11, 2011Guy Lewis and his family moved back to Ord, NE from Portland, OR to be closer to family. One difficulty when moving to a smaller community can be that the jobs don’t align with your background. For Guy, that meant the...
October 6, 2011Paul Eurek, chief executive officer and chairman of Xpanxion, was one of three companies that presented on a panel about business model innovations in information technology at the 2011 Nebraska Research and Innovation Conference....
October 6, 2011Matthew Wegener, founder, president and chief executive officer of ISoft Data Systems and co-founder and president of the Turbine Flats Project, was one of three companies that presented on a panel about business model innovations...
October 4, 2011Proxibid started in 2003 with the task of taking one of the oldest industries - auctions - and bringing it online. Since 2003 Proxibid has held more than 35,000 auctions live online and increased its staff to just over 100. Proxibid...
September 30, 2011On 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,...
May 11, 20112011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Falling Means Getting Back Up Scott Kleeb, President, Energy Pioneer Solutions Starting a business is challenging, growing a business is even more. Errors are inevitable, but the only...
March 31, 20112011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Phenomblue: Finding Partners Joe Olsen, CEO, Director of Strategy and Innovation at Phenomblue, an industry leading interactive brand experience agency. Read More →
March 28, 20112011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Genomics and the GeneSeek Experience Abe Oommen, General Manager, Neogen Corporation/GeneSeek Review of the growth and development of GeneSeek as a true Nebraska entity will be presented....
March 25, 2011On 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...
March 24, 20112011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship How to rapidly grow a Nebraska startup – unlimited vacation and Jets tickets Brian Kaiser, CTO, Agile Sports Technologies In four years, Agile Sports has grown from its three founders...
March 17, 20112011 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship FLYOVER by Archrival Clint! Runge, Creative Director of Archrival Charlie Hull, Managing Director of Archrival Archrival co-founders Clint! Runge and Charles Hull critique the flyover state...
March 17, 2011Dusty 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...
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