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  • Jeff Raikes on the Raikes School, entrepreneurs doing good (Video)

    Jeff Raikes resides in Seattle and has spent three-plus decades on the West Coast, but take some time to pick Raikes’ brain and you’ll find he’s still a Nebraska boy in many ways. Raikes, formerly a manager at Apple Computer and senior executive at Microsoft is now the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates…

  • Former Husker football players help athletes get paid for tweets

    One year ago, former University of Nebraska-Lincoln football teammates and college roommates …

  • Rare Earth Solar blazes trail, brings jobs as Nebraska solar panel maker

    Rare Earth Solar co-founders Allen Kruse and Joseph Brewer met at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln while Brewer was getting his doctorate in inorganic chemistry and tutoring Kruse in his chemistry class. Brewer started telling Kruse about his solar technology invention and that he was thinking about starting a business. Kruse, a Navy veteran and businessman,…

  • Entrepreneurship an eye-opening experience for UNL professor Farritor

    Shane Farritor had no plans of becoming an entrepreneur, but things changed in 2006. “This started with an alumnus from the university who is on the dean’s advisory board,” said Farritor, a mechanical engineering professor at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. “He’s been very successful doing startup companies and wanted to help the university with his…

  • Prairie Moves: MindMixer, Craftly, VineMe, Fundle 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…

  • Nebraska Global garners University of Nebraska entrepreneurship honor

    Nebraska Global is the winner of the 2011 Walter Scott Award, University of Nebraska president James B. Milliken announced Monday. The award, one of the…

  • Custom decal idea sticks for UNL Quick Pitch winner Jason Kruse

    Jason Kruse always knew he wanted to be an entrepreneur. He built his first website when he was in eighth grade and then in high school he teamed up with a friend from his math class. “We just kind of made more hobbyist type of websites that we would then sell,” Kruse said, “but I…

  • Quick Pitch Competition awards five student entrepreneurs $1k (Video)

    Nebraska’s second annual 3-2-1 Quick Pitch competition handed out five awards last Wednesday, February 23rd at Memorial Stadium’s West Stadium Club. Fifty-four students from high schools, two-year colleges and four-year universities gave it their best shot in just three minutes, delivering their “elevator pitch” to over 40 judges from the nearby business and academic community.…

  • Prairie Moves: David Kerber, Matthew Helt, Jim Esch & more

    (Photo by Maerzbow via Flickr.) 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…

  • SaaS startup idea wins UNL Venture Plan Competition

    (Left: Undergraduate division winners Alex DeBrie and Mike Ritner of Kid Safe-D Net) This past Friday night, University of Nebraska–Lincoln (UNL) students brought their ideas out in force, from an engineering firm to a software as a service (SaaS) startup monitoring and limiting children’s internet access. In all, nine students representing eight teams…