Nebraska Entrepreneur

  • Prairie Moves: Bryan McCarty, Canvis, God at Play and more

    Reminder – Prairie Moves is now a bi-weekly series. Learn more in our most recent Prairie Moves. What is Prairie Moves? Published Tuesdays and Thursday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your…

  • Prairie Moves: Christopher New, Emma Peterson, Fresk and more

    Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please…

  • Prairie Moves: Phenomblue, Infotec, Syncbak and more

    Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you…

  • Jeff Raikes speaks about entrepreneurship in Nebraska

    Nebraska Entrepreneur recently caught up with Jeff Raikes and asked him a few questions about entrepreneurship in Nebraska. Raikes is a Nebraska native who currently serves as the CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. To see his full bio, visit gatesfoundation.org/leadership. Here’s the full transcript…

  • Collin Caneva: From dump truck owner to tech entrepreneur

    When Collin Caneva, president of Green Bein’ Productions, first shared his idea for an online children’s video game, the general reaction he received was one of discouragement. “Collin, you’re nuts. You know concrete […] get back to concrete.” At the time, he was running a construction business that he had built up after purchasing a…

  • Recap of 2010 Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship

    This year marked the fourth annual Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship held in Lincoln, Nebraska. Organized by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the event brings together over 400 educators, business leaders, government officials, entrepreneurs and small business owners to talk about different aspects of entrepreneurship and take a look at how Nebraska measures up in some of…

  • Thursday and Friday, Feb. 25-26, packed with entrepreneur events

    There’s quite the smorgasbord of events this Thursday and Friday. I encourage you to take a look at them all and hopefully you’ll be able to make it to one.