September 15, 2011 by Michael Stacy
Omaha The biggest service upgrade in Proxibid history is "just scraping the surface” of what’s in store, according to Cassius Almeida, the company’s director of project management. That’s one insight gleaned from the video Proxibid released in conjunction with its announcement of “Project Superman,” the internal code name that the Omaha-based real auction … read more
September 14, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
(Photo by Antaean via Flicker) The goal of Prairie Moves is to keep our readers informed about career moves, press coverage, and product development from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News. If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email info@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how… read more
September 13, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Congrats to Call Spinner for taking home top honors at Startup Weekend Omaha, a 54-hour event challenging attendees to present ideas, form teams, plan, implement, and then finally present their just-born startup to a panel of judges. Second place was awarded to Everpresent, a web and smartphone app that prompts you to record important moments… read more
September 11, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha At 7 p.m. last night, Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off with three guest speakers addressing the subject "startup lessons learned." These three talks are below: Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks (left), Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo. read more
Omaha When I've previously written about CrowdPicks, a wisdom of crowds-based sports picking website, it doesn't take me long to wonder how their users picked the biggest sporting event of the year, the Super Bowl. A few weeks ... read more
Omaha More big news in the Twittersphere today. One of the co-founders of Omaha-based CrowdPicks.com, Jeff Murnane, announced: "CrowdPicks has officially secured their first investment. Not a huge amount, but enough for near term goals. Thanks Invest Nebraska!" ... read more