Proxibid

  • Prairie Moves: Cassius Almeida, Ginger Stevenson, John Wirtz & more

    (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,…

  • Prairie Moves: Bozell, SkyVu Pictures, TwitZip and more

    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…

  • Proxibid appoints former PayPal VP Ryan Downs as president

    Omaha-based Proxibid, a live auction webcasting service, delivered some exciting news yesterday with the announcement of their appointment of Ryan Downs, Omaha-native and former senior vice president of Worldwide Operations for PayPal, as company president. In short, Proxibid provides live webcasts of auctions to allow registered bidders unable to attend in-person to still participate in…

  • Prairie Moves: The World Tri, Proxibid, Medizzle and more

    (Photo by hennasabel 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,…

  • Google’s Chief Technology Advocate headlining Infotec 2010

    Infotec 2010 is just around the corner and the registration deadline is quickly approaching. The two-day event, produced by the AIM Institute, is filled with presenters from around the country sharing on topics related to information technology, entrepreneurship and emerging trends in the technology arena. This year’s lineup includes some amazing speakers such as Michael…

  • Interview with Ken Moreano on Scott Technology Center, Innovation Accelerator

    Last week, the Omaha World-Herald ran a story on the Scott Technology Center (pictured above) describing its partnership with the Innovation Accelerator. We’re very excited about the Innovation Accelerator (which has been in the works for some time) and can’t wait to be able to help promote and unveil more information about the organization when it’s…

  • 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…