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What Is … Seed Capital?
You are Probably Not Ready for Seed Capital When founders think about seed capital, they think about what they need: early money to build their product, prove the concept, and get to market. Seed capital is validation. It's the funding that turns an idea into a real...
UNeTech adds community engagement coordinator to growing team
UNeTech is pleased to announce that Jennifer Pool, MPA, joined the communications and outreach team as the new community outreach coordinator this month. With an extensive network of connections in the Omaha metropolitan area and a background in consulting with...
What is … Intellectual Property?
For centuries, intellectual property has been protected, allowing for new works of art, inventions, and technologies to thrive and for their creators to benefit. We have all seen the copyright notice in the front pages of our favorite books, or the trademark symbol...
Local student journalist joins UNeTech’s communications team
My name is Molly Ashford, and I am a journalist, researcher, and student at the University of Nebraska Omaha. Today I begin my role as a UNeTech intern, where I will be contributing to the blog and assisting startup companies in the incubator with content for their...
What is … limited liability?
What is limited liability? When I started at UNeTech Institute last fall there were lots of terms my co-workers used that I simply did not know because I was new to the world of startups and entrepreneurship. My colleague Jace and I used to slyly Google terms on our...
Trifaith’s American Muslim Institute features UNeTech community partner Hamza Haqqi
There is just something about Hamza Haqqi that is quite simply impossible not to love. I have seen it happen so many times now that he has been working with UNeTech on a grant to create a co-working space in our Blackstone neighborhood location. He smiles. Or he...
Big Government, Small Business: PART 4-A Guide to the SBIR and STTR Programs
Part 4: “And by golly, we got funded”: Gary Hendrix and the first SBIR Success Story In this series, Jace Gatzemeyer discusses the history, legacy, goals, successes, and shortcomings of the SBIR and STTR programs. Dr. Gatzemeyer is UNeTech’s Grant Writer, and one...
Let the evidence be your guide
The last course in the summer Innovation Corps program for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began at the end. Edmund Pendleton, a director of the DC I-Corps program started with Q&A. The somewhat shellshocked, 76 bleary-eyed professionals stared back,...
UNeMed to Host Tech Transfer Boot Camp in August
When I spoke with Catherine Murari-Kanti, PhD, about her experience with UNeMed’s Technology Transfer Boot Camp I could hear the smile in her voice. Catherine told me she started out as a participant in the program in summer 2015. And now, six years later, she is...
Big Government, Small Business: PART 3-A Guide to the SBIR and STTR Programs
Part 3: A Program so Clearly Successful? In this series, Jace Gatzemeyer discusses the history, legacy, goals, successes, and shortcomings of the SBIR and STTR programs. Dr. Gatzemeyer is UNeTech’s Grant Writer, and one aspect of his job involves creating strong...