Success stories
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Hopping Gnome Brewing Expanding Its Footprint In Wichita
After years of homebrewing beer, Torrey Lattin dreamed of making a living brewing beer full-time. In 2012, Torrey and his wife Stacy Ward Lattin visited Colorado and were impressed by the...
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Nebraska Business Owner Finds Her True North, and It’s Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship runs in Renee Sobotka’s family. Her parents owned a successful lumberyard and her father was a builder in West Point, so she grew up knowing the hard work involved in small business...
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From Soldier to CEO – Marine Veteran Starts Successful Construction Business in Nebraska
Ask Marine veteran Javier Arias about the hardest thing he’s ever done, and he’ll tell you it wasn’t being a Marine – it was starting his small business! Arias served in the Corps for seven years as a...
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From Cattle To Creative Arts – Business Owner in Lincoln Creates Custom Wallpaper Designs
Dan Nelson, owner of Vahallan, Inc., didn’t start out as a luxury wallpaper designer. He didn’t even start out as an artist. He grew up on a cattle ranch in Western Nebraska and always assumed he’d go...
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‘Your Oil Tools’ a family operated small business aromatherapy supply store
Steve Kesselring has always been motivated in business and passionate about helping others. Since 2013 he has been the president and CEO of Your Oil Tools in Hooksett. Your Oil Tools was formed after...
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Husband and Wife Team Bring Customers A Taste of the Caribbean
Steve and Heidi Nolan, owners of Lincoln, Nebraska based Spice Isle Sauces, are big fans of the Caribbean – the people, the islands and most importantly, the flavors! They’ve always loved to travel...
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Omaha-Based Appsky LLC Owners Recognized as SBA Nebraska Small Business Persons of the Year 2022
After Taylor Korensky graduated from the Information Technology Innovation program at the University of Nebraska Omaha in 2016, it didn’t take him long to realize that the Omaha tech market needed...
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Coffee Shop in West Point Keeps Brewing Up Hospitality With PPP Loan from SBA
Back in the olden days, a painted red door on a house meant that inside was a place where you can seek refuge. And that’s exactly what Red Door Coffee owner Lynsi Steed wants her customers to...