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

"TechCrunch's Picks: The 10 Best Startups From Y Combinator’s S12 Demo Day" - Columbia, Mo.-born Zapier was named one of TechCrunch's top 10 of 75 startups that participated in Y Combinator's Demo Day

Quotable

"Lots of coffee leads to lots of code, which leads to lots of cool stuff." - FormZapper founder Andy Kallenbach answering the question, "How do you bring ideas to life?" - IdeaMensch

Fundings

• A Form D filing revealed that Think Big Ventures has raised $3 million - Form D and Kansas City Business Journal

New Tech

• Nebraska Global will develop software and hardware for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's proposed Center for Brain, Biology and Behavior - Lincoln Journal Star

Product & Business Updates

• Sporting Innovations plans to renovate the Hanna Rubber building at 1517 Baltimore into its new headquarters, a plan that represents a capital investment of $20 million and 120 new high-tech jobs over the next three years - Press Release, Kansas City Business Journal, Kansas City Star and SPN
• GREE, a social gaming content and platform provider, announced a partnership with SkyVu Pictures - Press Release and PocketGamer.biz
• VoterTide to team with Washington Post for convention coverage - SPN
• Zapier presented at Y Combinator's Demo Day - TechCrunch, TechCrunch, Wired and New York Times

Mentions

• Stackify - Stackify Aims to Put More 'Dev' in 'DevOps' - Visual Studio Magazine
• NUtech Ventures - NUtech collaborates with innovators to launch successful products, ideas - Daily Nebraskan
• Former journalism dean expands UNL’s mobile communication research - Daily Nebraskan
• Andy Kallenbach of FormZapper - Andy Kallenbach – Founder of FormZapper - IdeaMensch

Gig Bits

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

Google

• Google Fiber en Español (English Version) - Google Fiber Blog

Local

• Ben Barreth launched Kansas City Hacker Homes, a group offering up to three months of rent-free, Google Fiber-connected startup space to entrepreneurs - homesforhackers.com, Hacker News, Silicon Beat and Ars Technica

National

• Google's audacious bet on fiber – and why it could work - Fortune

Blogged

• Democratizing Entrepreneurship: The Next Generation Of Networks - Lesa Mitchell
• Observations from the Beehive Mobile Intern Team - Doug Durham
• September 19: Michael Ferrari – SmartyPig Founder to Focus his Presentation on the Pivot - Business Innovation Zone
• The middle is where entrepreneurial magic happens - Joni Cobb
• Meet The Experts – Kansas City Big Data: The Future Of Insights - Kansas City IT Professionals

Misc.

• iStart, a Kauffman Foundation program, launched a new website to enable aspiring entrepreneurs to leverage global network of founders, mentors and advisors - Press Release
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced an $800,000 grant to StartX, which runs a startup accelerator for university students, to support expansion and national scaling of the program - Press Release
• Josh Cramer of Cramer Devopment joined the Iowa City Area Development board - Press Release

Credits: Screenshot from techcrunch.com