June 22, 2011 by Danny Schreiber & Brittany Mascio
Published every Tuesday (one day late this week), Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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 we could improve these … read more
November 17, 2010 by Steven Adams
Omaha (Left: Hayneedle's Doug Nielsen, Steve Dee, and Jason Goldberger) In less than six months, the Foundary has gone from a proposed idea to a successful home flash-sale site standing alone but also shining a light on another former startup company, Hayneedle. There are distinctions between the two sites and looking forward, the team at the Foundary hopes… read more
November 16, 2010 by Steven Adams
Omaha (Left: Hayneedle’s Jason Goldberger and Steve Dee.) Although it’s been just over a month since it launched, the Foundary, a home flash-sale site affiliated with Hayneedle, has come a long way from an idea mapped on a white board to a fully functioning website seeing thousands of registered users each day. The Foundary started as an idea… read more
November 15, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Over the past week, the Foundary, which was launched by Hayneedle on November 1st, has increased its user count from 15,000 to well over 50,000. Jason Goldberger, Hayneedle's senior VP of marketing, merchandising and site, shared these numbers with us and noted that social media has been the Foundary's largest driver of sign-ups. As far as… read more
July 19, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Over the past few weeks, Andrea Ciurej brought us profiles of Hayneedle's three recent additions to its executive team: president and CEO Carter Cast, chief marketing officer Ash ElDifraw, and chief merchandising officer Jason Goldberger. When we approached this series – titled Stacking Up in reference to the high level of talent and experience added – the goal was to learn more about each individual's background, skill set, role at Hayneedle, and advice for startups and entrepreneurs. read more
July 1, 2010 by Andrea Ciurej
Omaha Before landing roles in the e-commerce world, Jason Goldberger pursued a bachelor’s degree in government at a liberal arts college with no intention of ever landing a role in the political system. “It was just something I did,” said Goldberger, who graduated from Colby College in Waterville, Maine. “I always assumed I would get a job in business and I really didn’t know what that was.” His uncertainly eventually led him to the retail business, where he served as a buyer for the television network… read more
June 29, 2010 by Danny Schreiber
Omaha Over the past few years, Hayneedle has been stacking up on talent. The Omaha-founded and still 100 percent Omaha-based online retailer of home furnishings and lifestyle products… read more