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The 10 Best U.S. Cities to Start a Business in for 2016

Up and Running

If you know that you will need a large amount of outside financing to start your business, you may want to consider Lincoln, Nebraska. If you are interested in starting a business in Lincoln, check out these resources: Starting a Business in Nebraska. Nebraska One-Stop Business. Community Development Resources Nebraska.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

Picture this: Your family builds a tremendous business in Nebraska over four generations making black socks. Your team does a good job hustling around to find good teams, but the reality is that your dealflow is more dependent on your network than it is any kind of objective criteria. The next generation isn't interested in socks.

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The New Big Ten Logo – Is it Love?

crowdSPRING Blog

I also mentioned how excited I was to see what they would come up with when the Big Ten added Nebraska to their ranks, changing the number of participating colleges to twelve. (As Another approach is the one from the BIGTEN Network. As a graduate of a Big Ten school, I have a vested interest in this topic.)

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

And to help teach these many teams, the NSF will recruit other universities that have engineering entrepreneurship programs to become part of the Innovation Corps network. Principal Investigator: Stephen DiMagno University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 2012 the NSF will put 150 teams of the best scientists in the U.S.

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. There hasn't been a lot of buzz about the service yet, so the people in my network who are using it are the people I'd consider to be tastemakers.

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Online Toughies: The Cyber World’s Most Wanted Criminals

YoungUpstarts

It might seem like a rather low-hanging target, until you recollect that this is one of the USA’s (and therefore the world’s) biggest satellite and cable television networks. What Mesri did was to infiltrate the network’s corporate servers by compromising user accounts in order to gain access to valuable data stores.

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Getting high on your own Svpply: When who’s using the service is part of the product

This is going to be BIG.

It's been done before--whole social networks have been built out around the idea of product sharing and cool finds, but their comprehensiveness (complexity) seemed to be their downfall. There hasn't been a lot of buzz about the service yet, so the people in my network who are using it are the people I'd consider to be tastemakers.