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Prairie Moves: Drew Gourley, Shane Neuerburg, Pongr and more
Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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 …
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Gov. Heineman visits Hayneedle to discuss Talent & Innovation Initiative
From the home base of one made-in-Nebraska startup success story, Gov. Dave Heineman today touted measures recently passed to enable other such stories. Heineman visited Hayneedle headquarters to highlight opportunities afforded to Nebraska businesses by the four-part Talent & Innovation Initiative, which passed during the recently completed legislative session. Among the Talent & Innovation Initiative’s…
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Infotec Conference provides opportunity to network, learn
The annual Infotec Conference brought to Qwest Center Omaha a crowd that included nationally-recognized keynote speakers, nearly 100 track presenters and conference-goers from all over the Silicon Prairie. In addition to an impressive spread of exhibitors wrapped throughout the hallways of Qwest Center Omaha, the two-day conference provided great opportunities for attendees to mingle with…
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Hayneedle, Hudl and Sojern among AIM Tech Celebration Award winners
Hayneedle, Hudl and Sojern headline the list of companies that will be recognized by the AIM Institute this year with Technology Celebration Awards, which honor area companies, individuals, educators and students for their outstanding contributions to Nebraska’s information technology scene. The AIM Institute announced the recipients of its awards on Friday and will present the…
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Cyber Monday: Hayneedle hopes to continue record-setting weekend
According to the National Retail Federation (NRF), 212 million shoppers visited U.S. stores and websites this past weekend, up from 195 million last year. That trend is predicted to continue today as another NRF survey shows that 106.9 million Americans plan to shop this “Cyber Monday,” up…
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Building the Foundary – Part II: The Future
(Left: Hayneedle’s Doug Nielsen, Steve Dee, and Jason Goldberger) In less than six months, the Foundary has gone from a proposed idea to a successful home flash-sale site standing alone but also shining a light on another former startup company, Hayneedle. There are distinctions between the two sites and looking forward, the team at the…
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Building the Foundary – Part I: The Backstory
(Left: Hayneedle’s Jason Goldberger and Steve Dee.) Although it’s been just over a month since it launched, the Foundary, a home flash-sale site affiliated with Hayneedle, has come a long way from an idea mapped on a white board to a fully functioning website seeing thousands of registered users each day. The Foundary started as…
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From 15k to 50k – the Foundary home flash-sale site picks up steam
Over the past week, the Foundary, which was launched by Hayneedle on November 1st, has increased its user count from 15,000 to well over 50,000. Jason Goldberger, Hayneedle’s senior VP of marketing, merchandising and site, shared these numbers with us and noted that social media has been the Foundary’s largest driver of sign-ups. As far…
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Prairie Moves: Ben McDougal, Jerod Santo, Hayneedle & more
(Photo by Thierry Gregorius via Flickr.) Published every Tuesday, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more 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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Shuffle atop Hayneedle: Doug Nielsen & Carter Cast switch roles
There’s been a change in roles amongst Hayneedle leadership. According to a press release published today, Doug Nielsen (left), chairman, and Carter Cast (right), president and CEO, will exchange their executive management roles. Nielsen, a co-founder of Hayneedle, will…