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Opportunity Corps: Women in STEAM Announces 2024 Fellows
UNeTech Institute is pleased to announce the fellows accepted into the third year of Opportunity Corps: Women in STEAM, our program to teach community members about entrepreneurship using both the National Science Foundation's I-Corps-inspired curriculum and...
UNeTech Launches Website Redesign
The UNeTech Institute is pleased to launch its new website, with the support of Wendy Biernbaum from the The Small e, student intern Blair Osika from Metropolitan Community College, and Jeffrey Sterup from UNMC IT Development & Software.The need for the relaunch...
Looking back: The history of the UNeTech logo
Charlie Litton notices details. “I always thought it was remarkable, or interesting, that Lincoln has its own shade of red,” he said. “UNO has a different, slightly redder shade of red, and that UNMC has a slightly brighter shade of red too.” Despite their...
UNeTech welcomes Skillbridge fellow to DevOps team
UNeTech is excited to welcome Brendan McCullagh, a soon-to-be army veteran and software engineer, to our team through the Hiring Our Heroes program. McCullagh joined the Army shortly after 9/11, leaving his life as a college student in Colorado to serve as a...
UNeTech welcomes web design intern
UNeTech Institute is pleased to welcome Blair Osika, a web design student at Metropolitan Community College, onto the team as a web design intern. Osika, 19, is a talented designer and artist who will help the team revamp the website and blog over the next few months....
Grant Rejection Teaches Excellence Through Failure
At UNeTech we write a lot of grants. Most of them we don’t get. Build Back Better was one of them. Speaking only for myself, it’s a bit of a disappointment. While there’s a remnant of my inner teenager that wants to pretend that I didn’t really want it anyways – I...
What is…. The Valley of Death?
Of all of the startup jargon discussed in this series so far, the valley of death certainly feels the most ominous—and for good reason. The valley of death is a feared phase in the startup life cycle, typically occurring after the company launches a product but has...
Five Tips to Learn Before You Pitch
As an entrepreneurial support organization, the UNeTech Institute team coaches and mentors entrepreneurs on a variety of skills --- business strategy, company branding, financial planning. Each of these skills is crucial to a new startup depending on where it is in...
What is… Commercialization?
Investopedia defines commercialization as “the process of bringing new products or services to market” with the understanding that the process of commercializing includes production, distribution marketing, sales, customer support, and much more. The process typically...
Author Brant Cooper joins podcast to discuss success in unprecedented times
On Sept. 29, Brian Ardinger of the InsideOutside Innovation podcast hosted a live recording with Brant Cooper, a consultant specializing in innovation for Fortune 50 companies and entrepreneurs. Cooper authored a new book called Disruption Proof: Empower People....