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Steve Kiene shares Startup Nebraska’s three focus areas
On the Startup America blog earlier this month, Nebraska Global managing principal Steve Kiene said Startup Nebraska has “taken a very different approach to impacting (its) startup ecosystem” in comparison to other states. Kiene, one of four Startup Nebraska champions …
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Nebraska Global, Lincoln Public Schools beta test internship program
Two years ago, Lincoln-based Nebraska Global set out with an eight-figure software investment fund and a philosophy. “We make investments, and it’s not just cash. We make investments in communities and in people,” explained managing principal Steve Kiene. That non-cash investment began with hiring new college graduates to help keep talent in Nebraska. Then, the…
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Kiene gives 33 reasons ‘you might be a Nebraska entrepreneur’ (Video)
Continuing our coverage of this year’s Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship, the full video of Steve Kiene’s closing keynote at the Nebraska Summit on Entrepreneurship is now available (above). Kiene, the managing principal of the Lincoln-based software investment fund Nebraska Global, focused his 24-minute presentation on defining an entrepreneur, giving credit to farmers – who he…
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With $1.5m from Nebraska Global and Nelnet, Roundscapes is now 42
Roundscapes, a Lincoln technology startup and immersive media specialist, today announced it has relaunched as 42, a digital agency and software lab. As part of the relaunch, the company has closed a $1.5 million, multi-year round of funding from Lincoln-based firms Nelnet and Nebraska Global to scale development of a project working with augmented reality and next-generation…
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Prairie Moves: Newsy, Pikuzone, SelectOut and more
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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…
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Startup Nebraska launches, Kiene shares ‘state of Nebraska’ (Video)
Startup Nebraska, a statewide effort in conjunction with the Startup America Partnership, launched Friday with a hour-long event organized by individuals spearheading the cause. “This is very exciting,” Tom Chapman of Nebraska Global, the event’s emcee, opened the program in front of about 40 attendees. “I think we have sort of the startup motif going,”…
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Nebraska Global funds EliteForm, maker of high-tech sports training tools
With its latest investment, Nebraska Global is using its software development muscle to help, well … develop muscle. The Lincoln-based software investment fund today announced its fifth investment: EliteForm, a company that makes tools for collecting and analyzing workout data and tailoring lifting regimens to help coaches and athletes get the most out of time…
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Kiene shares blueprint for building a ‘software ecosystem’ (Video)
Steve Kiene and his team at Nebraska Global have a hefty responsibility to carry out: invest the $37.3 million investors have turned over to them to start software businesses in Nebraska. Some of those dollars have been invested, but there’s still money to hand out. On top of investing, they’ve also taken on – and…
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Amidst change, Raikes School strives to foster interdisciplinary innovation
Educating people to enter the technology field is tough, given its notorious fast pace and constant changes. At the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Jeffrey S. Raikes School of Computer Science and Management, faculty, alumni and industry advisors and volunteers use a constantly evolving approach to make sure graduates are ready. …
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