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Financial Resources for Business Ownership

Tonia Franklin — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:50:00 +0000

This webinar (51 minutes) provides information to current and potential business owners about Nebraska microenterprise statewide resources. Included is discussion on financing a small /micro business, along with saving and building credit for business ownership. Guest speakers were Jeff Christensen of NED, Inc., and Jeff Reynolds of REAP, along with Rose Jaspersen, Executive Director and Glennis McClure, Program Manager of NEF.

To access the webinar, click on the provided link: https://canhelp.webex.com/canhelp/lsr.php?AT=pb&SP=MC&rID=58206977&rKey=3fe5e5feb3f41ade

Economic Gardening

Tonia Franklin — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 19:14:15 +0000

Chris Gibbons, Director of Business & Industry Affairs for Littleton, CO discusses the opportunities and challenges in economic development rooted in growing jobs through entrepreneurship rather than chasing jobs by recruiting companies from outside. This is an adobe connect webinar courtesy of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln Extension. (http://www.extension.org/) To access this webinar, simply click on the title below.

Economic Gardening

Renewable Energy and Economic Potential in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota

Tonia Franklin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:46:52 +0000

The most important issue awaiting action by this Congress for rural development in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota is renewable energy legislation. Expanding production of renewable electricity to 20 percent of the nation’s electrical generation has the potential to create a large number of new jobs in the rural Midwest and Great Plains, according to an unpublished analysis from the U.S. Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The state-by-state projections were prepared in conjunction with the laboratory’s report 20% Wind by 2030, but were never formally published. Here, we will focus on Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska and South Dakota. To view this pdf file simply click on the title below.

Renewable-Energy-and-Economic-Potential

This article is from the Center for Rural Affairs’ October 2009 monthly newsletter. The authors are John Crabtree and Kim Preston.

Jim Collins: How to Thrive in 2009

Tonia Franklin — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:45:10 +0000

By Bo Burlingham | Apr 1, 2009 Inc. Magazine

As part of our (Inc. Magazine’s) 30th-anniversary issue, Inc. asked Jim Collins, author of Good to Great and Built to Last, what we might expect in the next 30 years. His answer: uncertainty, chaos, turbulence, and risk. In other words, it’s not a bad time to be an entrepreneur.

You would be hard pressed to find two individuals more determined to uncover the secrets of business success than Jim Collins and Bo Burlingham. Collins is the author of the best-selling business books Built to Last and Good to Great, both of which address this simple but vexing question: Why do some companies become great while others flounder? Burlingham, an editor-at-large of Inc., has spent his career pondering the same question. The author of Small Giants and co-author of The Knack (with Inc. columnist Norm Brodsky), as well as two books with open-book-management guru Jack Stack, Burlingham joined the magazine’s staff in 1983 and has developed an unmatched ability to get inside some of the nation’s most fascinating organizations. For Inc.’s 30th anniversary, we decided to bring these two business thinkers together for a conversation that would serve as a kind of state-of-the-entrepreneurial nation — examining where we have been, where we are, where we are headed, and what it will take to succeed once we get there. Burlingham met with Collins at his research firm, the ChimpWorks, in Boulder, Colorado. An edited transcript of the conversation follows.

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By Bo Burlingham | Apr 1, 2009 Inc. Magazine

Managing your Household and Business During a Recession

Marilyn — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:47:35 +0000

Visit Managing in Tough Times for tips and ideas on how to save money for your home and business. The website features resources explaining money-saving tactics to stretch your grocery dollars, trim your family budget and make your home more energy efficient. Apply the same tactics to decrease your business expenses by weather stripping, turning off lights in vacant rooms or powering down electronic equipment when not in use.

Japanese wind turbine technology generating research at the University of Nebraska Kearney