On a recent episode of the Prairie Founders Club podcast, host Brian Lee sat down with Val Shafak, the founder of NIYOU (pronounced "ENN EYE YOU"), to discuss the meteoric rise of his sports marketing agency.
NIYOU didn't start in a boardroom or a high-rise office; it was born in an eight-week entr...
For many entrepreneurs, the dream of "being your own boss" conjures images of long hours in a garage, building a product from the ground up, and struggling to find that first customer. But according to Mike Kuzma, a partner at the business transactions group of Spencer Fane law firm, there is a fast...
In the heart of Middle America, innovation often looks a little different than the glass towers of Silicon Valley. Sometimes, it looks like a nine-hole golf course in Omaha, Nebraska, where father-daughter duo Bridgette and Shawn Mcguire are redefining how we think about new home construction.
In t...
If you’re building a side hustle (or trying to get traction in an existing business), the real bottleneck usually isn’t “ideas” or “motivation.” It’s overwhelm: too many moving parts, too little clarity, and zero system for deciding what not to do. In my conversation with Will Denker, the big takeaw...
When you grow up in the middle of the country, you learn two things early:
- Weather is going to ruin at least one major life event (graduation, wedding, Husker games…you name it).
- If you want something done, you’re probably going to have to do it yourself.
That second lesson is part of our DNA...
