What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit an item for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Read

"Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene" - Inc. magazine's Eric Markowitz gives an overview of Omaha and the surrounding region's startup scene, interviewing established and early stage tech companies

Quotable

"It's pretty neat they are also mentoring leaders from another country." - Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad said on Thursday in reaction to the president of Kosovo's visit to StartupCity Des Moines - Des Moines Register

Career Moves

• Cheryl Kalina joined T8 Webware as a designer
• Scott Davis, Tim Hubschman, Jim A. Jones and Pat Kelley joined Proxibid as sales executives - Press Release
• Brad Candullo joined RecBob as a front-end developer, will work remotely from New York - RecBob blog
• Jordan Cashatt and Aaron Bonney joined QA Graphics as HVAC graphics specialists - Press Release
• Molly Beals joined QA Graphics as a marketing specialist - Press Release
• Jenny Buckhouse joined QA Graphics as a marketing and creative intern - Press Release

New Tech

• Rockupied released Craptions, an iOS app adding a caption to a photo - App Store
• Lucky Duck Apps launched Warranty Consultant, an iOS app which helps to determine whether a warranty for electronic devices is a smart investment - App Store, Press Release and Creighton University news

New Creative

• SecretPenguin did the design for Blatt Beer & Table - blattbeer.com and Nebraska Creative
• Shift built GetActiveDSM.com for the Greater Des Moines Partnership - getactivedsm.com

Product & Business Development

• Dwolla's FiSync, a real-time payment network and alternative to ACH, went live - Dwolla blog, Veridian Credit Union Press Release, Des Moines Business Record, TechCrunch, Bloomberg, American Banker and Des Moines Register
• Bulu Box announced debut of the vitamin and supplement sample box - Press Release

Mentions

• My Diabetes Home - Phone app, website give diabetics information - Des Moines Register
• PaySafe - Safe and sound transactions - Omaha World-Herald
• StartupCity Des Moines - StartupCity advises president of Kosovo - Des Moines Register
• John Brasch of Nebraska Angels - Brasch: Serial Entrepreneurship a Growing Trend - Nebraska Entrepreneur
• Neighbor.ly - Kansas City turns for help to tech firms Neighbor.ly, Screampoint - Kansas City Business Journal
• Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene - Inc.

Gig Bits

Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.

• Kansas City mayors’ task force de-emphasizes Google - Kansas City Business Journal

Recognition

• Ben Milne of Dwolla will be one of 50 founders with a portrait on exhibit in New York's Times Square - Inc.
• Angel Capital Group was recognized by the Kansas City Business Journal as one of the Top Area Venture Capital Firms - Angel Capital Group on Facebook

Blogged

• Standup? What's a Standup? - Doug Durham
• This is Why I Live in Omaha - Scott Dobble
• Our Open letter to New York Pedestrians - Dwolla
• 3 Tools I Install on Every Server - Jerod Santo
• Fields of Opportunity - Norah Carroll

Misc.

• The Greater Des Moines Partnership launched a mobile website to keep fitness enthusiasts informed of wellness events in Central Iowa, GetActiveDSM.com - Press Release
• Think Big Partners opened applications for first Think Big Accelerator class - Press Release
• iKC released its agenda - iKC
• iKC unveils Fire Up presenters - Think Big Partners
• Two Mechdyne engineers led educational sessions at InfoComm 2012 - Press Release
• Dwolla's New York employees, Alex Taub and Michael Schonfeld, will be running AngelHack in NY - Betabeat
• RecBob was selected to participate in the Techweek Launch competition on June 25 in Chicago - Techweek
• Sporting Innovations showcased in London - Sporting Kansas City blog
• Hacker News racked up 46 comments on Inc.'s story, "Inside the Midwest's Secretive and Scrappy Start-up Scene" - Hacker News

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