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Hudl, Proxibid find common ground at Chamber event on innovation
For all the high marks Hudl has earned over the last half-decade — and the company, which has grown from 12 high school clients in 2008 to about two thirds of the high school football teams in the country this year, has had plenty of positive report cards — Hudl co-founder and chief product officer…
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Video provides Proxibid team’s take on ‘Project Superman’
The biggest service upgrade in Proxibid history is “just scraping the surface” of what’s in store, according to Cassius Almeida, the company’s director of project management. That’s one insight gleaned from the video Proxibid released in conjunction with its announcement of “Project Superman,” the internal code name that the Omaha-based real auction …
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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,…
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Call Spinner wins Startup Weekend Omaha (team demo videos)
Congrats to Call Spinner for taking home top honors at Startup Weekend Omaha, a 54-hour event challenging attendees to present ideas, form teams, plan, implement, and then finally present their just-born startup to a panel of judges. Second place was awarded to Everpresent, a web and smartphone app that prompts you to record important moments…
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Startup Weekend Omaha kicks off with ‘startup lessons learned’ talks
At 7 p.m. last night, Startup Weekend Omaha kicked off with three guest speakers addressing the subject “startup lessons learned.” These three talks are below: Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks (left), Todd Nichols of TalkAbroad, and Jonathan Sharp of appendTo.
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SPN interviews Jeff Murnane and Cassius Almeida of CrowdPicks
When I’ve previously written about CrowdPicks, a wisdom of crowds-based sports picking website, it doesn’t take me long to wonder how their users picked the biggest sporting event of the year, the Super Bowl. A few weeks ago, I sat down with CrowdPick’s co-founders, Jeff Murnane and Cassius Almeida, to learn more about their company,…
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CrowdPicks secures its first investment, receives funding from Invest Nebraska
More big news in the Twittersphere today. One of the co-founders of Omaha-based CrowdPicks.com, Jeff Murnane, announced: “CrowdPicks has officially secured their first investment. Not a huge amount, but enough for near term goals. Thanks Invest Nebraska!” Following up by direct message, Jeff revealed that the amount is $25,000 and that Invest Nebraska will be…