What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Fridays, 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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Lead Read
“The Social Anatomy of Cory Booker’s Misstep” – AdWeek gives VoterTide love (above) for its data and analysis on Cory Booker’s social media accounts
Quotable
“At that point, we were behaving just like entrepreneurs.” – W.D. Allen, faculty advisor of the University of Missouri’s Student Angel Capital Program, reflecting on the creation of the student-managed angel investment fund – Columbia Missourian
Career Moves
- Mike Kramer joined Proxibid as senior vice president of sales – Press Release
- Jon Buys joined T8 Webware as its technical operations lead – Jon Buys blog
- Rodrigo Neri and Ryan Niemeyer, both formerly of Cerner Corporation, began working full-time on Instin
- Joe Sparano announced he would be leaving Oxide Design to begin a teaching career – Oxide Design blog
- Hudl’s coach support team brought on Jessica Asbury, Brianna Black, Mathew May, Alli Pane and Michael Zoerb
- Hudl’s product team brought on Rob Hruska and Brian Clymer (development intern)
New Tech
- Footwork app aims to reduce legwork in the political canvassing process – SPN
New Creative
- T8 Webware redesigned its website – t8webware.com
Product & Business Development
- Goodsmiths rolled out its “Goodsmiths Discovery Engine” using the Facebook Open Graph – Goodsmiths blog
- Goodsmiths introduced handmadefees.com, the “place for makers to find the cheapest prices to list and sell handmade items” – handmadefees.com and Goodsmiths blog
- T8 Webware expands to Des Moines, expects to hire 20 to 30 people in the next five years – Des Moines Register
- My Diabetes Home updated the name of it’s AllMyMeds app to MedSimple – My Diabetes Home blog
Mentions
- VoterTide – The Social Anatomy of Cory Booker’s Misstep: Tracking the Newark mayor’s social buzz – AdWeek
- My Online Camp – Ames firm manages sports camps for colleges across U.S. – Des Moines Register
- Front Flip – Customers and Businesses Flip Over This Mobile Engagement Platform – The Point of Sale News
- BetaBlox – Start-ups have to get creative to find financing – Kansas City Star
- Student Angel Capital Program at the University of Missouri – For first time, MU student angel investors risk $30,000 on medical startup – Columbian Missourian
- StartupIowa – The Top 10 States for Startup Companies – Des Moines Business Record
- Jon Darbyshire of Archer Foundation – Bain Capital: Economic angel or vampire? – Kansas City Star
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- Has Google changed its mind about sharing its fiber network? – GigaOm
- Google Already Seems to Have Learned Something about Access in Kansas City – IP Carrier
Recognition
- Sporting Club, Sporting Innovations’ parent company, received four StadiumBusiness Awards – Sporting Club blog and photos
- Intertwine Interactive was ranked as the No. 3 provider of affiliate marketing services by TopSEOs.com – Intertwine Interactive newsletter
Blogged
- KC Takes a Big Step Forward – Troy J Norris
- It’s time to give entrepreneurs a (tax) break – Brian Hemesath
- Hunters and Farmers revisited – Christian Renaud
Misc.
- CAMP Coworking closes after two-year run – CAMP Coworking blog and SPN
- Veel Hoeden wins $25K office makeover in national contest – Des Moines Register
- Hack the Midwest details were released by Kansas City IT Professionals: Prizes and Speaker
- Hack the Midwest registration discount is being offered by TheNextWeb – The Next Web
- Bawte posted pictures of its launch party – Bawte on Facebook
- Iowa State University to add faculty in effort to help create a biotech research powerhouse – Des Moines Register
- Des Moines Register posted pictures of the BitMethod‘s 3rd Birthday Party and Bawte’s Launch Party
- Dwolla investor Union Square Ventures of New York published its “Investment Thesis“
Credits: Screenshot from adweek.com
