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Lincoln pediatrician taps Gear Five app to improve employee happiness
A Lincoln pediatrician’s office has been gamified to encourage employees. Gear Five Studio, a Lincoln-based software company that wants to optimize health care by creating positive and fun work environments, turned its app, AMPT, over to Complete Children’s Health this month …
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Don’t make a sale, build a relationship
(Guest post by Collin Caneva.) I just completed testing for a new fitness boot camp. I’m not sharing this with you to brag, but because sales and this experience go hand-in-hand. To many people, “selling” is a dirty word. Of course every business needs sales, but the sales process is where the negative tone sometimes…
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Green Bein’ switches gears, plans to show off new brand at party Friday
Three-year-old Lincoln, Neb. startup Green Bein’ Productions on Friday will celebrate its next chapter with a new name, Gear Five Studio, and new look. The new name represents the five areas the former gaming studio plans to focus on in the future – web development, virtual worlds, games, software and interactive branding. “The biggest thing…
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Cornstalks Demo Night: Green Bein’ Productions by Nick Helton, Collin Caneva and Adam Templeton (Video)
Green Bein’ Productions founder Collin Caneva began his presentation at Cornstalks Demo Night by hinting at the latest developments of his Lincoln-based startup. “Our company, locally, is usually known as Kid Command, but we’re more than that,” Caneva said. “We’re an online, multimedia development company. We develop everything …
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Caneva discusses Green Bein’ culture – ‘coffee shop atmosphere’ (Video)
During a recent interview with Green Bein’ president & CEO Collin Caneva – see: Kid Command adds 56k users in Jan., Aaron Davis joins Green Bein’ team” – I saw that he is not only motivated by his business, but also by his team at Green Bein’. I wanted to learn more about their culture…
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A look inside Green Bein’s office
Collin Caneva’s business goal is to “create a creative, fun place for young Nebraskans to come and work and create great jobs and create wealth.” In a recent interview with Caneva, president & CEO of Green Bein’ Productions, we spoke about the hardships of starting a business and also some of the recent success his…
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Collin Caneva: ‘We want to make the world a better place’ (Video)
A major reason Collin Caneva started Green Bein’ Productions and launced Kid Command in December 2009 was to someday provide a video game for his children that was a safe and educational outlet on the computer. As we reported yesterday, Kid Command, the online game focused on teaching kids about the environment, is beginning…
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Kid Command adds 56k users in Jan., Aaron Davis joins Green Bein’ team
Green Bein’ Productions’ first video game, Kid Command, is doing well after its launch just over a year ago in late 2009. “Kid Command today is not what we initially set out for. It’s so much bigger than what we thought it would be,” said Collin Caneva, president & CEO of Green Bein’. Kid Command…
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More on PKI: Mike McGinnis talks gaming, Kid Command partnership
Meeting the needs of the nation’s technology and engineering firms, the University of Nebraska’s Peter Kiewit Institute (PKI) couples practical challenge and entrepreneurial excitement to mold students into the business leaders of tomorrow. In doing so, entrepreneur-driven students enrolled in one of the…
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Collin Caneva: From dump truck owner to tech entrepreneur
When Collin Caneva, president of Green Bein’ Productions, first shared his idea for an online children’s video game, the general reaction he received was one of discouragement. “Collin, you’re nuts. You know concrete […] get back to concrete.” At the time, he was running a construction business that he had built up after purchasing a…