Bruce Hoberman

  • Proxibid’s Ryan Downs adds CEO to title, discusses vision with SPN

    Ryan Downs didn’t have to wait long to celebrate his first milestone as Proxibid’s CEO. Proxibid, the Omaha company that runs an online marketplace for high-value and specialized assets, announced Oct. 1 that Downs, who came on board as president in August 2010, had become the company’s new CEO. With Downs’ move, Proxibid announced that…

  • CEO Bruce Hoberman & co-founder Joe Petsick tell the Proxibid story

    (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…

  • Ryan Downs on Proxibid & his return to Nebraska

    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…

  • Cornstalks Thursday, Oct. 29

    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 Greater Omaha region. Actually, something just occurred to me: is there some sort of link between the…

  • Bruce Hoberman of Proxibid speaks at Sept. Cornstalks

    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 startup Proxibid, founded Homer’s at the age of 23 and grew it into a successful music retailer. In…

  • Cornstalks Thursday, Sept. 24: Bruce Hoberman, CEO of Proxibid, Inc.

    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 beta. Personally, I’m very excited about his startup. For those of you who couldn’t join us, you can see…