On October 1st Turbine Flats hosted the Creative Capital Pitch Session and dealt out a $1,000 prize with no strings attached. This event was a huge success and helped bring many people out to Turbine Flats. Quick Pitches or elevator pitches, as more formerly known, give people the opportunity to present their business ideas and concepts to a panel of judges within a short period of time, usually 30 seconds to 5 minutes.
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Coming on February 25th will be the “2010 Make it Happen Student Quick Pitch Competition” hosted by the Nebraska Center for Entrepreneurship. This competition is targeted towards students in Nebraska and plans to encourage entrepreneurship among the younger aged demographic. Judges from all fields of every industry will be present and most impressively it will take place in the Memorial Stadium Skyboxes. This event should be a great experience for all whether you are competing or observing. Applications are open to all high school, 2- and 4-year college students, and graduate students. To find out more information please go to entrepreneurship.unl.edu; Applications are due February 12th .
Agents from Nebraska Home Sales stopped by the Flats this week to have their pictures taken against a lime green backdrop for a new web site that debuts in January. The green screen allows designers at Nebraska Digital to easily create cutouts of the agents that will be used throughout the site.
The site will be built in Wordpress and features several custom plugins developed by Nebraska Digital. ND Owner John Rood said the juiciest details are being kept under wraps while the site is in development, but promises it will be different than any other real estate site on the market.
“We’ve Googled the world and nobody’s doing it the way we’re doing it — I hope that’s a good thing,” John said. “When the time is right, we’re really anxious to get some feedback and see what people think.
So far, the people at Nebraska Home Sales have been open to doing things differently, John added. “We’re trying to shake things up, they are trying to shake things up, so it’s been a really good fit.”
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The competition was for $1,000, no strings attached. To win the prize all one had to do was give the most compelling short business pitch LIVE out of the finalists, who were chosen from general YouTube entries. The whole event was kind of organized by the Lincoln Young Professional’s Group.
The event had a great crowd.
Best of all (for Turbine Flats), the prize went to our very own Brendan Evans (Research Associates partner) for his cunning, “Harvard Classics” series of books for infants and toddlers pitch. You can read the local media coverage, HERE.
He reminds me of somebody...
Congratulations to Brendan and thanks to everyone who pitched in or even just showed up.
I’m going to post a couple of past events just to let people know what’s been going on down at the Flats in the last few months. This should give everyone an idea of what has been keeping us so busy for the last year.
To begin, our very own ISoft Data Systems hosted their annual User’s Conference. The conference is a fun and informative gathering where customers and potential customers can network and grill us about our product as well as get advanced training for our ITrack line of software.
ISoft crew and customers get down to business in our mind-blowing conference room. Like, really down.
A couple of days ago (sorry for waiting for awhile to post) Nebraska Digital was shooting some photos for a special client.
It has been awhile. Despite the lack of updating, Turbine Flats is still going strong!