Jimmy Winter

  • VoterTide launches, looks to make a splash in social media side of politics

    VoterTide, a social media analysis app focused on politics for both Washington insiders and the everyday consumers of news, launched into public beta today. As we first reported on in October, this new company is the product of three experienced entrepreneurs: Jimmy Winter, the brain behind Omaha-based RockDex, Gordon Whitten, the founder …

  • Winter, Whitten teaming up to launch VoterTide in November

    It’s nothing more than a splash page at the moment, but if I had to cast my vote for what will soon be unveiled by two Omaha entrepreneurs I’d say something interesting is in the works. Earlier this year, RockDex founder Jimmy Winter began applying his startup’s technology, a social media monitoring …

  • First look at the new RockDex

    As of today, the only details on the next version of RockDex have only been teased at by founder Jimmy Winter in the description he submitted in April for Cornstalks Demo Night: RockDex presents a high-level view of your artists’ online buzz and a comprehensive picture of growth and scale. Dig into actual conversations and…

  • For his sixth year in a row, Jimmy Winter prepares to rock SXSW

    (Left, Jimmy Winter at SXSW Music 2010 with celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton. Photo courtesy of Winter.) With South by Southwest Interactive fast approaching, Rockdex co-founder Jimmy Winter gave me insight into what to keep an eye out for when he and his team land in Austin, Texas in the coming week. For RockDex, a…

  • Deadline Approaching: Invest Nebraska $50k Venture Competition

    A quick reminder that if you’d like to enter your startup into Invest Nebraska Corporation’s second annual East-2-West New Venture Competition the deadline is November 8.

  • Invest Nebraska $50k Venture Competition returns this November

    Invest Nebraska Corporation, a non-profit venture development organization, will be holding its second annual East-2-West New Venture Competition this coming November.

  • RockDex now open for business, subscriptions start at $23 per month

    Yesterday afternoon, RockDex officially opened its service to the public, leaving private beta and launching its monthly subscription packages. “We had 3,000 peoplesignup for the beta and we let in about 500 to try it out,” Jimmy Winter, RockDex’s chief architect, said via email. “Up until now, our users were all labels…

  • Prairie Moves: SkyVu Pictures, Oxide Design, 9 Clouds Inc & more

    (Photo by Nicholas_T via Flickr) 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,…

  • With the Power of Howard, Jimmy Winter moves RockDex forward

    You may remember that Jimmy Winter’s side project a year and a half ago is his current startup, RockDex, which came about from his company, Music Arsenal. Winter is back at it with a new side project, the Power of Howard, a website displaying the analytical power of RockDex by measuring the internet power of…

  • Prairie Moves: Allied Strategy, Phenomblue, Dwolla & more

    (Photo by IndigoValley via Flickr) 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,…