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Greater Omaha students put their entrepreneurial skills to work with Future Builders Challenge
In mid-July, twenty teams of high school students from across Greater Omaha gathered at Buildertrend for the Future Builders Challenge. Selected from a larger group who took the Gallup Builder Profile (BP) 10 entrepreneurial talent assessment, the teams worked with coaches to develop business ideas and pitch them to a group of judges. “It’s cool…
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Omaha entrepreneur Willy Theisen helps guide next generation of business builders
In the early 1970s, a young man named Willy Theisen was driving cross country to California when his car broke down on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River. He was assisted by a stranger and decided to move in with his family temporarily until he could save enough to fix the car. What happened…
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The Nebraska Builder Initiative is changing entrepreneurship and education
The Nebraska Builder Initiative held their first event last week at the Gallup Riverfront Campus. The event featured guest speakers from across Nebraska’s business ecosystem as well as a presentation and business launch by students from the program’s first cohort. The Nebraska Builder Initiative is designed to identify key entrepreneurial talents in students known as…
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The Nebraska Builder Initiative launches this week at Gallup’s Riverfront Campus
On June 28, Gallup, along with The Clifton Foundation, The Strengths Lab and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Clifton Strengths Institute, will host a presentation of The Nebraska Builder Initiative, an intense four-week summer program that challenged students to develop and start a profitable business. The new program allows students to learn more about their own…
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What’s new at Straight Shot this year?
The Omaha-based Straight Shot accelerator is now accepting applications for its third year program. David Arnold, Managing Director of Straight Shot, is excited about what’s new this summer. “I think we’re ready to take some big steps and do some innovative things with the types of companies we bring in as well as the accelerator…
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Nebraskan develops Entrepreneurial StrengthsFinder test for Gallup
Next week, a group of students from around Omaha will convene at Gallup before embarking on 3 Day Startup, a weekend program to form teams and create startups. At Gallup, they’ll take the new Gallup Entrepreneurial Strengths Finder, a series of tests that helps individuals and teams understand their strengths, weaknesses and what traits they…
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The new summer job: Nebraska high schoolers score tech internships
It’s a sunny afternoon in Omaha—a great day for teens on summer break to be outside. But high schoolers Okina Tran of Millard South High School and Katie Nguyen of Burke High School are working inside the darkened Aksarben offices of game developer, SkyVu Entertainment. And they’re excited about it…
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Gallup EAS event Thursday to feature 150 Nebraska businesses
Gallup will hold its Entrepreneur Acceleration System 2012 Impact Summit from 10-11:30 a.m. Thursday at the Embassy Suites Omaha-La Vista Conference Center (12520 Westport Parkway). The Entrepreneur Acceleration System (EAS) is a second-year program for small and medium enterprises that’s put on by Gallup in partnership with the Nebraska …
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Web developer, marketer, QA manager and 39 more
We’re excited to bring you our 113th Opportunities on The Prairie today from all over the region. If you have an opportunity to add, please register your positions using …
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Gallup’s EAS Impact Summit honors growth and job creation for Nebraska
“We need to out invent and out entrepreneur the rest of the world,” Jim Clifton, Gallup’s chairman and CEO Jim Clifton said to the participants of the Entrepreneur Acceleration System (EAS) in Thursday’s opening video remarks at the Impact Summit. “That’s why what you do is so important… that’s a touchdown. Nebraska gets better and…