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727_b52e1abee4_small March 12, 2010 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Mentioned this week: * Filming on location in the RockDex office in the home of its founder Jimmy Winter * Interview with Rachel Jacobson of Film Streams * Series on new online publication on the Prairie * Startup Weekend Omaha coming March 19-21 * Show guest Jimmy Winter talks about the new version of RockDex coming soon, Rockdex's recent award from… read more

568_1e8b36a365_small January 11, 2010 by Jeff Slobotski

Omaha Looking back over last year, 2009 was truly amazing! We highlighted an unbelievable amount of entrepreneurs, innovators and creatives. The following five videos were the most viewed interviews we conducted last year. We wanted to pull them off the shelf and share ... read more

December 14, 2009 by Dusty Davidson

Lincoln Dan Hoffman of Invest Nebraska Corporation poses with Jimmy Winter of RockDex following Friday's competition. Congrats to Jimmy Winter of RockDex for winning Invest Nebraska Corporation's first-ever East-2-West – The Nebraska New Venture Competition! Jimmy ... read more

December 9, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Lincoln Beginning at 1 p.m. this Friday, seven finalists will present their business plans in the East-2-West New Venture Competition in hopes of securing the $50,000 investment from Invest Nebraska Corporation, the host of the event. The ... read more

December 3, 2009 by Dusty Davidson

Omaha Just over a month ago, a group of individuals gathered for the first Springboard Lunch at the Scott Technology Center, to listen to two companies pitch their ideas. The impetus behind Springboard is simple -- provide a venue where by companies ... read more

November 3, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Since launching last March, there's no question that Jimmy Winter's latest project, RockDex, has made traction. The writeup he received from Jolie O'Dell on ReadWriteWeb in August was a big milestone, as well as the subject it ... read more

September 16, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha At last month's Cornstalks, Ben Schaechter gave us both a demo of his newly-launched polling web app, GoPollGo, as well as a bit of its history. He begins with a humorous anecdote of why he was compelled to ... read more

August 30, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Thanks to a tweet by Nick Ashley, I stumbled upon some great news: ReadWriteStart, a channel of the highly-trafficked tech trends blog ReadWriteWeb, featured Jimmy Winter's RockDex and announced that he'll be partnering with Kansas City-... read more

August 6, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Inspired by this clip: American Psycho: Business Card Scene "New card, what do you think? [...] Picked them up from the printers yesterday. [...] That's bone, and the letter is something called Silian Rail." -- Patrick Bateman I decided to ask some ... read more

July 13, 2009 by Danny Schreiber

Omaha Last week, we put out an offer to startups saying that we'd be happy to connect them to our audience for beta testing. Jimmy Winter, owner of Music Arsenal, the company behind RockDex Pro, will be the first to ... read more