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Bart Dillashaw

  • 10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to Lincoln’s startup community

    10 people to grab coffee with if you’re new to Lincoln’s startup community

    While the Silicon Prairie may span across several states, include vastly different types of companies and entrepreneurs with diverse backgrounds (and football rivalries), supportive communities are one factor that tie them all together. Whether you’re in Omaha or Des Moines, Kansas City or Cedar Rapids, you’ll find people who really care about helping their fellow…

  • Get to know the five finalists for Service Provider of the Year

    This lawyer, accountant, marketer or other service provider made things happen for startups, simple as that. And the finalists are…

  • Powderhook closes $650K seed round, hires five team members

    This week Powderhook, a free web and mobile service connecting outdoorsmen with places to hunt and fish, closed a $650,000 seed round led by the Nebraska Angels. The funding, which has been secured for a few months, will build Powderhook’s software development team…

  • Lincoln Startup Week continues with family-friendly competition

    Those who attended the inaugural Lincoln Startup Week last year will remember the breathless excitement that surrounded it. Organizers and attendees alike seemed a bit awestruck whenever they talked about how the week had rather spontaneously come together. “It just sort of happened,” said Social Assurance’s Ben Pankonin while presenting Startup Weekend Lincoln prizes on…

  • Five common myths about SBA loans

    (Sponsor post authored by Jeff Ash.) As of April 2013, the Small Business Administration had approved more than $9.4 billion in its flagship 7(a) loans for this fiscal year. The SBA is no small player when it comes to business lending, yet many potential borrowers think SBA loans signal desperation or are too burdensome or…

  • Fundamentals of business valuation

    (Sponsor post authored by Josh Weiss, CPA.) The value of a business is not something that you can look up or easily identify. The primary reason is that value is truly in the eye of the beholder. A business is effectively worth what someone is willing to pay for it. Not unlike many consumer goods,…

  • The cost of capital

    (Sponsor post authored by Bart Dillashaw.) At one of the recent Lunch & Learns put on by the Mastercraft Advisors, John Grose and Doug Sutko of First National Bank discussed the “cost of capital” of debt and equity. Entrepreneurs often fail to think about this concept as much as they should, and it is a…

  • Lincoln Startup Week to celebrate city’s startups Sept. 7-13

    Lincoln startups will have a chance to showcase their endeavors and meet the community with a weeklong celebration of …

  • Nebraska Angels invest $450,000 in Austin, Texas-based VolunteerSpot

    The Nebraska Angels announced today that several of the group’s members are investing a total of $450,000 into the Austin, Texas-based company VolunteerSpot, which makes an online scheduling and sign-up tool for recruiting and coordinating …

  • Nebraska Angels help close Nitride Solutions Series A round at $2.5m

    The Nebraska Angels, a Lincoln, Neb.-based consortium of individual angel investors, have played a significant role in bringing the final portion of funds into a Series A round for Nitride Solutions, the company’s CEO, Jeremy Jones said in an email today. On Monday, Wichita, Kan.-based Nitride Solutions, a developer of next‐generation nitride substrates for LEDs,…