JockSpin

Smart sports aggregation apps bring sports headlines and tweets to users, customized for thier interests, with fan-centric slide navigation

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Internet / Web Services
  • Location Miami, FL, USA
  • Currency USD
  • Founded June 2012
  • Employees 4
  • Website jockspin.com

Company Summary

JockSpin fetches sports headlines and tweets from thousands of sources, delivering them to users via mobile apps, as well as the web and opt-in e-mail. Users choose teams, sports, leagues, and regions of interest. JockSpin creates a page of aggregated headlines and a page of tweets for each, navigable by sliding pages. Our customers are, simply put, the 46% of Americans, plus many more globally, that identify themselves as sports fans.

Team

  • James Hawkins
    CEO / Founder

    Founded and operated multiple companies: Adapt, a developer and operator of marketing, niche blogs, and e-commerce sites, Georto, a multi-unit franchisee of Aaron Rents with locations in ME and MA; and PSA, a home services co. formed to consolidate the. Also held the position of SVP Investments / Senior Portfolio Manager with Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Adoption and application of technology in novel ways is notable and varied.

  • Yann Duran
    Chief UX Developer / Co-Founder

    Interactive and Mobile Developer at McClatchy/Miami Herald has developed more than a dozen iOS and Android mobile apps, including Dolphins Football, Heat Basketball, and Gators Football apps. Also developed and personally published EnteraDO, aggregating news from the Dominican Republic. CSE Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo (INTEC).

  • Marvin Nahmias
    Chief Technology Officer / Co-Founder

    Has served as CTO, Co-Founder, and/or other technical executive positions of SportYa.com, Espanol.com, VinoFromMexico.com, Santander Consumer Finance (Alcanza), Verizon (GTE), and Ultima Communications. M. Eng Cornell.

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