Fourteen women micro-entrepreneurs across rural Nebraska will receive a cash equity award from the Center’s Rural Enterprise Assistance Project (REAP) Women’s Business Center. The equity award winners were announced at the Women in Business Benefit banquet on March 29, 2006 in Lincoln, Nebraska in correlation with Women’s History Month. REAP is one of 15 Local…

Luke Anthony is opening a new law firm, right after completing law school. Plus he’s moving from Tulsa to Stillwater. And he’s documenting the whole process at an interesting blog, OklahomaSolo. To me, Stillwater isn’t exactly small town, but we’ll bend the rules! small biz rural entrepreneurship Stillwater Oklahoma law

Sometimes, change or progress can catch your business in the crossfire. If your business is providing web-based email solutions, what do you think about a major article that says email is bad as a tool for collaboration, and needs to be replaced? The blog Small Town, Big Ideas comes from a company that produces webmail,…

Jeanne (OkieJ) and I were keeping up with technology at a forum put on by the Business and Professional Women. We took a look at the new Windows Vista, and heard that the release is being pushed back again. Kevin Fream, President Matrixforce Corp., also gave us a look at Microsoft’s vision of the future….

Rob Spiegel shares his personal story of businesses he has started. Some failures, some successes. Here are his conclusions: There are a couple things I’ve learned over the years. Get your nut [overhead] small. Find something you really, really like doing – you’re going to have to do it a lot, and you’re going to…

Want to build a billion dollar company from your small town? David Thomson wrote the book on it, Blueprint to a Billion, profiled on Fortune Small Business. (Brought to our attention by Be Excellent.) Here are the seven principles Thompson postulates: 1. Create and sustain a breakthrough value proposition. Create an entirely new market for…