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RockDex wins $50K at Invest Nebraska competition
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 and RockDex take home the $50,000 equity investment, which they will use to expand their server capacity. According to Jimmy,…
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$50K investment up for grabs at competition
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 contestant lineup is solid, with an array of industries represented. In exchange for the investment, the winner is required…
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Recap of first Springboard Lunch
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 who are looking for funding can present their ideas to a room full of…
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RockDex hits the road, speaking tour
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 covered: Jimmy’s merger with Locker Partner in Kansas City. These past two weeks will likely also go down…
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GoPollGo presents at Cornstalks, set to present at MVF tonight
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 learn programing at a young age and he ends by showing off a number of cool features…
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RockDex Pro looking for beta testers
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 take advantage of this offer. From Jimmy: Here at RockDex HQ things are really rolling! There…
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Music Arsenal introduces us to RockDex Pro
This morning, Music Arsenal founder Jimmy Winter tweeted: “RockDex Pro is Alive! Its Aliiiiiiive!!! http://bit.ly/BCfhz“ Needless to say, there was a bit of excitement in his voice. And, there’s good reason for it. What began as a side project to his web-based music business and software company has turned into a serious venture. Speaking with…
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Weekly Wrap Up
News of Last Week 4/27 – OWH: Task bittersweet as woman buys slain mother’s business (Leah Roberts, Weird Wild Stuff Vintage Clothes Shop) 4/28 – SWKC: THE RESULTS (Startup Weekend Kansas City) 4/28 – Mashable: Does Your Favorite Band Rock the Social Web? (Jimmy Winter, RockDex) Events of Next Week
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Weekly Wrap Up
Every Friday, we’ll be linking to the previous week’s news that pertains to “SPNers” and listing the upcoming week’s events that pique our interest. News of Last Week 3/27 – NE Creative: MixTape.me, latest project by What Cheer 3/30 – OWH: Movers: Venture based on music buzz, Jimmy Winter of Music Arsenal 3/30 – Life…
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Music Arsenal launches RockDex at SXSW
Our friend Jimmy Winter over at Music Arsenal announced the launch of RockDex! RockDex is a site where artists can see the amount of “internet chatter” about them and learn new ways to increase the buzz. RockDex scours the internet to find current trends about an artist and scores a band based on data from…