Lee Redden (MSME Robotics, Jun 2011) Research in haptic devices, autonomous systems and surgical robots, BSME (U Nebraska at Lincoln), Family Farms in Nebraska. Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship. MORE
Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley capture a lot of attention, but cities including Detroit, Michigan ; Las Vegas, Nevada and Omaha, Nebraska each boast booming entrepreneurial communities of their own. It''s not always about Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley. MORE
Everybody knows that farming is not the most lucrative job in the world, or even Nebraska. “EIEIO” is the sound that Old McDonald made when he saw his balance sheet for January. So there have to be reasons to get into the business besides wanting to join the Bill Gates club. MORE
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska What it does: Bulu Box is like a Birchbox for vitamins and supplements. Location: Omaha, Nebraska What it does: BallyHoo AutoWare creates virtual showrooms that let car shoppers "try on" different accessories for their dream ride. MORE
ff Venture Capital of New York led the investment along with the Central Texas Angel Network, Nebraska Angel network, Angel List and Baylor Angel Network. VolunteerSpot, which creates tools for moms, nonprofit organizers and others to coordinate volunteers, has received $1.5 million. The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds for marketing and to double [.]. Austin Technology San Antonio Technology Angellist Austin Central Texas Angel Network VolunteerSpot MORE
If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. If you are interested in starting a business in Lincoln, check out these resources: Starting a Business in Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business. MORE
He grew up in Nebraska, had a bucolic childhood that sounded like he was raised by parents from Leave it to Beaver. “ Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not ?”. Robert Kennedy/George Bernard Shaw. MORE
The soy products company has manufacturing and logistics facilities in Ashdod and Ashkelon in Israel as well as in South Sioux City, Nebraska, and Ningbo, China. MORE
A touch of narcissism (but not too much) tends to make for better leaders, a new study finds. What qualities do we look for in a business leader? Confidence is obviously important, as is the ability to communicate and persuade, so a certain degree of extraversion is generally considered a plus. MORE
Nebraska: If you don''t make time for family, you''ll regret it. Nebraska is the story of David and his drunken, elderly, disoriented father Woody. His son David agrees to drive him from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska. MORE
AP) — North Carolina has hired former Nebraska defensive coordinator John Papuchis as an assistant coach CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) MORE
RALEIGH — A Republican legislator from Nebraska says North Carolina GOP lawmakers should consider abolishing the death penalty because the process is financially inefficient, subject to errors and doe MORE
Led by ff Venture Capital of New York, with participation from members of the Central TX Angel Network, Nebraska Angel Network, Angel List and Baylor Angel Network, VolunteerSpot expects to double its user base during this year’s back-to-school season. It's a great week for fundraising in Austin with Skyonic raising $9M, Rally raising $7.9M and VolunteerSpot raising $1.5M. MORE
In an era where traditional education in general--and the MBA in particular--are being challenged and disrupted by startups left and right, why is Gallup investing in a "strengths" lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln MORE
AP) — Authorities say a North Carolina woman walking along Interstate 80 in central Nebraska was hit and killed by a passing semitrailer, and the trucker was later arrested GILTNER, Neb. (AP) MORE
A North Carolina man has been given more than four years in prison for evading federal taxes while he lived and worked in Nebraska OMAHA, Neb. — MORE
A listing in downtown San Francisco will obviously be a hell of a lot more expensive than a place in rural Nebraska, for example. In part 3 of my “So what the hell happened?” ” series, I wrote about how I started running a homestay. MORE
AP) — A North Carolina man has been given more than four years in prison for evading federal taxes while he lived and worked in Nebraska OMAHA, Neb. (AP) MORE
When a government official in Omaha, Nebraska (where I was promoting Lean Analytics ) asked me what the government could do, I pitched him the travel idea. Nebraska has a lot of great startup activity, but it needs to send its best entrepreneurs to San Francisco and/or New York to have their eyes opened in a big way. Occasionally I meet a government official and he asks me, “What should the government do to help startups?” MORE
AP) — By any measure, Nebraska is having its best season since moving to the Big Ten, from its win total to its RPI and KenPom rankings. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) It's unclear whether that will be good enough to secure an MORE
And, even though I couldn’t care less about college football, good luck against Nebraska this weekend. I spent yesterday at University of Michigan with my partner Jason Mendelson (he’s a two time grad – economics undergrad and then law school.) This was my first trip to Ann Arbor and I had a great time. MORE
Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”? Thinking Aloud Mark Hasebroock Nebraska Omaha startup startup advice startup ecosystemby Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital. MORE
Nebraska is a wide state – we ended up deciding there was an East Nebraska and a West Nebraska. To everyone who lost someone close to them on 9/11 – I’m sending you every bit of good karma that I can today. While I was in New York that day, I was lucky and didn’t lose anyone close, but I’ll always remember 9/11 and I think about it every time I’m in New York. I’ve always had some survivor guilt around 9/11. MORE
I'm standing in the conference room of a 140,000 square-foot former furniture factory in North Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The money people perceive that you can't build a company in Nebraska. Whitten has made angel investments in about seven companies, all based in Nebraska. MORE
AP) — A Republican legislator from Nebraska says North Carolina GOP lawmakers should consider abolishing the death penalty because the process is financially inefficient, subject to errRALEIGH, N.C. (AP) MORE
I’ll be in Omaha April 16-20 meeting lots of great entrepreneurs leading up to my Helpful Marketing Workshop on April 19. Here are some of the events – I hope to we get a chance to meet and please help us spread the word! . My guest post on Silicon Prairie News. I developed Helpful Marketing after applying Lean Startup techniques to my products & entrepreneurs I’ve helped for the past 5 years. MORE
After a year of debate, the country's top justices decide not to hear a case claiming Colorado's pot legalization has negatively impacted law and order in neighboring states MORE
For example, Tu Nguyen, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, won first prize in the inaugural 2003 competition with a Pocket PC application designed to bridge the language gap between English-speaking waiters and Vietnamese-speaking chefs. MORE
Rounding out the top five were: Nebraska (5), California (4), Hawaii (3), Utah (2), and Minnesota (1). Let’s take a look back at the world of work and the news, people, and stories that are shaping it. Welcome to the Branch Messenger weekly round-up. In the News. MORE
It may not be Silicon Valley, but the region, which stretches from Nebraska to Ohio, is a business hub. MORE
After all, co-founder Ev Williams was born a Nebraska farm boy. With Twitter’s IPO, the press is publishing glowing profiles of the company’s executives and early investors. The praise is well deserved. MORE
PHOENIX (AP) — Back then, it was Tom Osborne's mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers. On Monday night, it's Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide MORE
AP) — Nebraska defensive backs coach Charlton Warren is leaving the Cornhuskers to take a similar job at North Carolina LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) MORE
Company: Bread & Cup restaurant Founded: 2007 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Co-founders: Kevin and Karen Shinn In August 2007, Kevin and Karen Shinn opened a bistro-style restaurant called Bread & Cup in Lincoln, Nebraska. A new arena brings many more people in the door, but is also driving regulars away. Should the owners relocate? This case study is part of Inc.''s s Reinvention Central Special Report. The Dilema: Big crowds, or no crowd at all? MORE
CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) AP) — North Carolina has hired Charlton Warren as its defensive backs coach MORE
AP) — An investigator for a Nebraska law enforcement agency said Wednesday he is reviewing hundreds of confirmed or possible threats against an Omaha basketball official who worked Kentucky's NCAA Tournament loss to North Carolina OMAHA, Neb. (AP) MORE
Study participants at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who conjured positive imaginary co-workers were found to contribute more in the actual workplace, both in job performance and going above and beyond their job descriptions to help others. MORE
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Here’s a word association game: what do you think of when you hear “Omaha, Nebraska”? Thinking Aloud Mark Hasebroock Nebraska Omaha startup startup advice startup ecosystemby Mark Hasebroock, Founder and Managing Partner, Dundee Venture Capital.
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AP) — Authorities say a wrong-way driver died after a collision on Interstate 80 at Cozad in south-central Nebraska COZAD, Neb. (AP)
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AP) — Tyrell Nelson scored 15 of his 24 points in the second half to help Gardner-Webb beat Nebraska 70-62 on Sunday LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)
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AP) — North Carolina has hired former Nebraska defensive coordinator John Papuchis as an assistant coach CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP)
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RALEIGH — A Republican legislator from Nebraska says North Carolina GOP lawmakers should consider abolishing the death penalty because the process is financially inefficient, subject to errors and doe
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After a year of debate, the country's top justices decide not to hear a case claiming Colorado's pot legalization has negatively impacted law and order in neighboring states
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) AP) — North Carolina has hired Charlton Warren as its defensive backs coach
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I’ll be in Omaha April 16-20 meeting lots of great entrepreneurs leading up to my Helpful Marketing Workshop on April 19. Here are some of the events – I hope to we get a chance to meet and please help us spread the word! . My guest post on Silicon Prairie News. I developed Helpful Marketing after applying Lean Startup techniques to my products & entrepreneurs I’ve helped for the past 5 years.
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AP) — By any measure, Nebraska is having its best season since moving to the Big Ten, from its win total to its RPI and KenPom rankings. RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) It's unclear whether that will be good enough to secure an
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The soy products company has manufacturing and logistics facilities in Ashdod and Ashkelon in Israel as well as in South Sioux City, Nebraska, and Ningbo, China.
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AP) — Authorities say a North Carolina woman walking along Interstate 80 in central Nebraska was hit and killed by a passing semitrailer, and the trucker was later arrested GILTNER, Neb. (AP)
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
JANUARY 10, 2016
PHOENIX (AP) — Back then, it was Tom Osborne's mighty Nebraska Cornhuskers. On Monday night, it's Nick Saban's Alabama Crimson Tide
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A North Carolina man has been given more than four years in prison for evading federal taxes while he lived and worked in Nebraska OMAHA, Neb. —
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AP) — About 140 jobs will be lost with the closing of a copper cable plant in the western Nebraska city of Sidney SIDNEY, Neb. (AP)
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
AUGUST 26, 2015
AP) — A North Carolina man has been given more than four years in prison for evading federal taxes while he lived and worked in Nebraska OMAHA, Neb. (AP)
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AP) — An investigator for a Nebraska law enforcement agency said Wednesday he is reviewing hundreds of confirmed or possible threats against an Omaha basketball official who worked Kentucky's NCAA Tournament loss to North Carolina OMAHA, Neb. (AP)
Winston-Salem Journal State/Region News
FEBRUARY 13, 2015
AP) — Nebraska defensive backs coach Charlton Warren is leaving the Cornhuskers to take a similar job at North Carolina LINCOLN, Neb. (AP)
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ff Venture Capital of New York led the investment along with the Central Texas Angel Network, Nebraska Angel network, Angel List and Baylor Angel Network. VolunteerSpot, which creates tools for moms, nonprofit organizers and others to coordinate volunteers, has received $1.5 million. The Austin-based startup plans to use the funds for marketing and to double [.]. Austin Technology San Antonio Technology Angellist Austin Central Texas Angel Network VolunteerSpot
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If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. If you are interested in starting a business in Lincoln, check out these resources: Starting a Business in Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business.
Instigator Blog
APRIL 15, 2013
When a government official in Omaha, Nebraska (where I was promoting Lean Analytics ) asked me what the government could do, I pitched him the travel idea. Nebraska has a lot of great startup activity, but it needs to send its best entrepreneurs to San Francisco and/or New York to have their eyes opened in a big way. Occasionally I meet a government official and he asks me, “What should the government do to help startups?”
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APRIL 17, 2013
Study participants at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln who conjured positive imaginary co-workers were found to contribute more in the actual workplace, both in job performance and going above and beyond their job descriptions to help others.
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Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley capture a lot of attention, but cities including Detroit, Michigan ; Las Vegas, Nevada and Omaha, Nebraska each boast booming entrepreneurial communities of their own. It''s not always about Silicon Valley and Silicon Alley.
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Nebraska is a wide state – we ended up deciding there was an East Nebraska and a West Nebraska. To everyone who lost someone close to them on 9/11 – I’m sending you every bit of good karma that I can today. While I was in New York that day, I was lucky and didn’t lose anyone close, but I’ll always remember 9/11 and I think about it every time I’m in New York. I’ve always had some survivor guilt around 9/11.
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Lee Redden (MSME Robotics, Jun 2011) Research in haptic devices, autonomous systems and surgical robots, BSME (U Nebraska at Lincoln), Family Farms in Nebraska. Our new Stanford Lean LaunchPad class was an experiment in a new model of teaching startup entrepreneurship.
Feld Thoughts
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And, even though I couldn’t care less about college football, good luck against Nebraska this weekend. I spent yesterday at University of Michigan with my partner Jason Mendelson (he’s a two time grad – economics undergrad and then law school.) This was my first trip to Ann Arbor and I had a great time.
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I'm standing in the conference room of a 140,000 square-foot former furniture factory in North Downtown Omaha, Nebraska. The money people perceive that you can't build a company in Nebraska. Whitten has made angel investments in about seven companies, all based in Nebraska.
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He grew up in Nebraska, had a bucolic childhood that sounded like he was raised by parents from Leave it to Beaver. “ Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not ?”. Robert Kennedy/George Bernard Shaw.
Inc Startups
OCTOBER 24, 2013
Location: Lincoln, Nebraska What it does: Bulu Box is like a Birchbox for vitamins and supplements. Location: Omaha, Nebraska What it does: BallyHoo AutoWare creates virtual showrooms that let car shoppers "try on" different accessories for their dream ride.
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NOVEMBER 8, 2013
After all, co-founder Ev Williams was born a Nebraska farm boy. With Twitter’s IPO, the press is publishing glowing profiles of the company’s executives and early investors. The praise is well deserved.
Austin Startup
JUNE 28, 2012
Led by ff Venture Capital of New York, with participation from members of the Central TX Angel Network, Nebraska Angel Network, Angel List and Baylor Angel Network, VolunteerSpot expects to double its user base during this year’s back-to-school season. It's a great week for fundraising in Austin with Skyonic raising $9M, Rally raising $7.9M and VolunteerSpot raising $1.5M.
Inc Startups
MAY 9, 2014
Company: Bread & Cup restaurant Founded: 2007 Location: Lincoln, Nebraska Co-founders: Kevin and Karen Shinn In August 2007, Kevin and Karen Shinn opened a bistro-style restaurant called Bread & Cup in Lincoln, Nebraska. A new arena brings many more people in the door, but is also driving regulars away. Should the owners relocate? This case study is part of Inc.''s s Reinvention Central Special Report. The Dilema: Big crowds, or no crowd at all?
TylerCruz.com: An Internet Entrepreneur's Journey
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A listing in downtown San Francisco will obviously be a hell of a lot more expensive than a place in rural Nebraska, for example. In part 3 of my “So what the hell happened?” ” series, I wrote about how I started running a homestay.
Inc Startups
FEBRUARY 28, 2014
Nebraska: If you don''t make time for family, you''ll regret it. Nebraska is the story of David and his drunken, elderly, disoriented father Woody. His son David agrees to drive him from Billings, Montana, to Lincoln, Nebraska.
YoungUpstarts
JUNE 5, 2012
For example, Tu Nguyen, from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, won first prize in the inaugural 2003 competition with a Pocket PC application designed to bridge the language gap between English-speaking waiters and Vietnamese-speaking chefs.
Inc Startups
JANUARY 23, 2014
A touch of narcissism (but not too much) tends to make for better leaders, a new study finds. What qualities do we look for in a business leader? Confidence is obviously important, as is the ability to communicate and persuade, so a certain degree of extraversion is generally considered a plus.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 12, 2016
Everybody knows that farming is not the most lucrative job in the world, or even Nebraska. “EIEIO” is the sound that Old McDonald made when he saw his balance sheet for January. So there have to be reasons to get into the business besides wanting to join the Bill Gates club.
Inc Startups
SEPTEMBER 15, 2017
Rounding out the top five were: Nebraska (5), California (4), Hawaii (3), Utah (2), and Minnesota (1). Let’s take a look back at the world of work and the news, people, and stories that are shaping it. Welcome to the Branch Messenger weekly round-up. In the News.
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