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University announces Kiewit, Scott entrepreneurial award winners

NU NEWS RELEASE March 18, 2010 Contact: Melissa Lee (402) 472-7127 (402) 580-3297 (cell) melissalee@nebraska.edu University of Nebraska President James B. Milliken has announced the 2010 winners of two awards that honor entrepreneurship... 

March 18, 2010
Food Processing Center Helps Move Products from Stoves to Storefronts

Food Processing Center Even though it’s something everyone needs on a daily basis, food is a tougher sell than you might think. For starters, the failure rate of new food products hovers well above 75 percent, with the New... 

March 18, 2010
2010 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship Fosters Idea Sharing and Networking

Interest among young Nebraskans in starting a business is high. According to a book published by Gallup, more than half of Nebraskan college-age students want to start their own business. However, research revealed gaps in the... 

March 8, 2010
Pastabilities Unlimited Bringing “Smiles” to Customers’ Faces

Although the millennium census posits the population of Firth, Nebraska, as a few people short of 570, David and Betsy Ashman have a found a way to put what’s a small town even by Midwest standards on the map. Their Sorrisos... 

March 8, 2010
Inaugural “Quick Pitch” Competition A Rousing Success

Student pitching in front of Memorial Stadium - Photo credit Three Pillars Media An “elevator pitch” is a bare-bones run-down of a business proposition, truncated so as to be deliverable in the time it takes an elevator... 

March 1, 2010
Scott Technology Center Targets Technical, High-Growth Potential, Business Ideas

Some business ideas are more than just successful – they change the way we do things. The digital camera changed how we take pictures; the iPod changed how we listen to music. If your business idea is innovative with a large... 

February 22, 2010
Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship Helps Students Navigate Troubled Job Market

The most successful entrepreneurs are those who’ve been able to visualize opportunity where others see nothing at all. That propensity for pulling ideas out of thin air is indispensable in an ailing economy, where employment... 

February 1, 2010
Broken Bow Bison Ranch Wins Nebraska EDGE Honor

via IANR News Straight Arrow Bison Ranch GRAND ISLAND, Neb. — In 1994, Marty and Karen Bredthauer of Broken Bow began raising bison as an alternative to raising cattle on their 320-acre ranch. They sold their first bison meat... 

August 21, 2009

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