You design a diagnostic tool with three key elements: a biomarker panel you identified, a data collection protocol you developed, a risk threshold you optimized through testing. Then you feed it to Claude: "What's missing?" Claude suggests a fourth element: a...
When founders fail it’s not because they don’t work hard enough or because they have the wrong ideas. They fail because they spend money before they gather information.
Open Range and Techstars Omaha brought Omaha Startup Weekend back to town June 5-7, for a hugely successful event at Catalyst Omaha. After 20+ individual one-minute micro-pitches on Friday night from founders from the Midwest, 60+ attendees voted on their seven...
When the Steel Works Health Accelerator launched, it was "only an idea on paper." Tyler Scherr, UNeMed’s Licensing Specialist and Business Development Manager, has now seen the program through to its conclusion. On June 10, the Steel Works Health Accelerator closes...
Entrepreneurship is often portrayed as a solo journey: one founder, one big idea, one breakthrough moment. But inside the Maverick Technology Venture Alliance (MTVA) at the University of Nebraska Omaha, students learn something different. Innovation happens through...
OMAHA, Nebraska — UNeMed Corporation and the UNeTech Institute have announced plans to share office space, a development that reflects the natural evolution of a working relationship that has grown steadily over many years. The two organizations, both rooted in the...
When Chad launched his logistics tech idea in Omaha, he assumed finding customers would be the easy part. He thought: “I have a working prototype. Just find users. That’s what comes next, right?” He was wrong. For months, Chad marketed online, tweeted about the...
When founders talk about product-market fit, they talk about building something people want. They talk about finding their audience, getting traction, proving demand. Product-market fit is the milestone that means you've made it. It means you've built a product people...
Warren Buffett has spent decades explaining how to build wealth. But some of his most important lessons aren’t really about money at all. In fact, one of his most famous reflections about success has almost nothing to do with investing. Speaking to students at Georgia...
We met for coffee at Catalyst, a space buzzing with energy from the dozens of tech startups and entrepreneurs working on the next big idea. Dillon de Rozairo sat across from me, animated, leaning in when he got excited. He’s young, sure, but he runs his own...