RockDex

  • 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,…

  • Startups RockDex & Deckerton covered by Nebraska Entrepreneur

    Last week, Omaha-based RockDex and Lincoln-based Deckerton received nice writeups on Nebraska Entrepreneur about their backgrounds and founders. Below you’ll find links to the stories. Nice work to Matt Sherman and the Nebraska Entrepreneur team for keeping up…

  • Shout! Weekly releases its inaugural ’30 Under 30′ list

    Shout!, Omaha’s new alternative weekly newspaper, released its inaugural 30 Under 30 list yesterday. In the publication, the list’s authors, Chris Larkin and Lisa Martin, described the effort as “a way to present stories of the achievements and aspirations found in the up-and-coming segment of Omaha.” Congrats to all those recognized, and a special congrats…

  • 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…

  • Thank you to the Silicon Prairie Party sponsors!

    We’re just a few days away from the Silicon Prairie Party at South by Southwest Interactive in Austin and we want to express a huge thank you to our sponsors from across…

  • Top five videos of 2009

    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 …