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What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, 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.

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Career Moves

• Jennifer Hoyt, winner of Kansas City Startup Weekend 2011 team Craftwig, co-founded Silo88 (Kansas City), an online marketing solutions firm

Fundings

• RAZ Mobile (Kansas City) raised $150,000, according to its SEC Form D filing - SPN post

New Tech

• Mike Colwell of Business Innovation Zone (Des Moines) launched StartupModels.com - bizci.org
• Innovadex (Overland Park, Kan.) launched of the Innovadex Sales App - innovadex.com
• Tony Noecker (Omaha) implemented the Rdio API to create Doom DJ - SPN post
• Tribe Effect (West Des Moines) and Innova Ideas and Services (Des Moines) launched Social Decision - SPN post
• Andy Brudtkuhl (Des Moines) implemented MailChimp to create landing page themes - LaunchChimp and brudtkuhl.com

New Creative

• WebWorks, which is owned by Red Nova Labs (Westwood, Kan.), redesigned and developed a new site for Absolute Management - absolutemgmt.com/about

Product/Business Development

• Dwolla (Des Moines) released its mobile SDK (software developer case) - dwolla.org/blog
• The MeNetwork (Omaha offices, Denver-based) launched its MeNetwork iOS app - itunes.com/apps/menetwork

Media Mentions

• Bumble, a product of What Cheer (Omaha) - Lifehacker: "Bumble Is a Super-Simple and Safe VoIP Service for Children"
• Gary Hicks of SkillSniper.com (Kansas City) - Entrepreneur.com: "Go Union: How I Got My Funding"
• DownsDesign (Omaha) design of BarCamp Omaha - Abuzeedo: "Sites of the Week #166" and Most Inspired: "barcampomaha.org"
• Five and Fifty (Kansas City) - BetaBeat: "Remember the Group Buying Explosion? This Is the Instant Deal Explosion–And Merchants May Not Need Groupon Or Foursquare"
• Zaarly (Kansas City offices, San Francisco-based) - The Faster Times: "NYTM Review: Brom.ly and Zaarly" and TechCrunch: "Michael Arrington’s New Executive Assistant Did It All For The Labradors" (Ramsey Mohsen of Kansas City makes an appearance in the video)
• University of Northern Iowa Innovation Incubator (Cedar Falls) - Cedar Valley Business Monthly - "Startup businesses come together at UNI incubator"
• Digital Sports Ventures (Overland Park, Kan.) - Thinking Bigger: "Digital Sports Ventures puts the game online"
• Proxibid (Omaha) - eCommerce Times: "The State of Online Auctions: Going, Going, Going?" and Marshall Independent: "Dealing in the obscure"

Misc.

• Nick Bowden of MindMixer (Omaha) spoke at an event with Rep. Lee Terry - "Speaking with Nick Bowden at the launch of Lee Listens"
• Drake University (Des Moines) launched an Entrepreneurship at Drake University Facebook page - facebook.com/drakeentrepreneurship
• Startup Weekend Omaha announced addition of William Fisher of Treetop Ventures (Omaha) as a judge - twitter.com/sw_omaha
• After Friday's Venture Friday, Red Nova Labs (Westwood, Kan.) will move from meeting bi-monthly to once-a-month - rednovalabs.com
• David Howe of Red Nova Labs (Westwood, Kan.) will be demonstrating iOS game, "Mystery Ball" at Friday's Red Nova Labs Venture Friday - rednovalabs.com
• BitMethod (Des Moines) blogged about its podcast: "Getting Started With The Flyover Effect"