September 29, 2010 by Steven Adams
Omaha (Left: Proxibid CEO Bruce Hoberman and co-founder and CFO Joe Petsick.) Last November, while hundreds of bidders gathered at the Sheraton Hotel in Manhattan for the auction of Bernard Madoff, the man behind a multi-billion dollar Ponzi scheme, thousands of bidders flocked to Proxibid.com, a website allowing bidders unable… read more
September 23, 2010 by Steven Adams
Omaha Ryan Downs has worked with several fast-growing startups, lived in nearly a dozen cities, and traveled all over the U.S. But for Downs, returning to live and work in Nebraska is exactly where he wants to be. He's now president of Omaha-based Proxibid, the world's largest live auction marketplace. Previously, he worked for law firms and was a part of the PayPal executive team. Downs grew up on his family farm and ranch outside Hershey, Nebraska and later went on to study at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and Harvard Law School. After law school, he worked seven years as a trial lawyer for a firm in Denver and Chicago. read more
Omaha Well, the end of the month is nearly upon us. This can mean only one thing, it is time once again for another edition of Cornstalks, the Greater Omaha Chamber's group for pre-seed and seed entrepreneurs from the ... read more
Omaha Details about next week's Cornstalks will be posted by Aaron in the coming days. In the meantime, I strongly encourage you to watch last month's Cornstalks' speaker, Bruce Hoberman, who, prior to becoming the CEO of Omaha-based ... read more
Omaha The end of the month means that it's Cornstalks time again, folks! In last month's episode we heard from Ben Schaechter of GoPollGo. He introduced us to his new polling web app, which has since launched into public ... read more