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
“Students get a taste of the real world in business boot camp” – The Des Moines Register takes readers to Spirit Lake, Iowa to learn about the Okoboji Entrepreneurial Institute (above).
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Quotable
“So it kinda pissed us off and made us more determined to say ‘screw them’ and go out and do it on our own, organically through sales growth.” – RareWire co-founder Kirk Hasenzahl in response to an interview question to name a problem he’s encountered and overcome. – IdeaMensch
New Tech
- Sam Bao, Adam Coomes and Joshua Eithun launched Backly during a self-organized hackathon – backly.com and SPN
New Creative
- Etelligence Pioneers launched a new website for its Footwork app – gofootwork.com
- 2012 Barcamp poster – Grain & Mortar
Product & Business Updates
- PlanetReuse selected as grant recipient for Mission: Small Business grant program from Chase & LivingSocial – Press Release, PlanetReuse blog and Think Big Partners
- PlanetReuse Marketplace powered by InvenQuery selected as one of 15 semifinalists to present at SXSW Eco Startup Showcase – PlanetReuse blog
- Change added Fresh Cafe & Market to its beta test – Change blog
- Pollenware (C2FO) passed $2 billion in early cash flow delivery (ECFD) – Press Release
Mentions
- Raz Mobile – A quicker, easier way to support – KCTV
- Raz Mobile – Raz Mobile: Making Charity Donations Easy – Fox 4
- RecBob – Cedar Rapids based RecBob takes the headache out of rec sports – Tech Cocktail
- Resonance – Felicia Day & Morgan Webb Master the Art of Archery – Geek and Sundry
- myHomework App – Pack these apps for ‘back to school’ – HLN
- Mikengreg – Going broke with success: how an app with 200,000 downloads led to developer homelessness – The Penny Arcade Report
- Meidh – Tech Spotlight: Identifying firms’ best questions – Des Moines Register
- Kirk Hasenzahl – Kirk Hasenzahl – Co-Founder of RareWire – IdeaMensch
- Students get a taste of the real world in business boot camp – Des Moines Register
- Appy Hour: More Silicon Prairie Innovators – KCUR
- Tech meetups becoming fertile recruiting ground – The Gazette
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- Pre-registering in apartments or condos – Google Fiber Blog
Local
- Kauffman Foundation Google Info Session – Google Connects KC
- KC neighborhood creates commercial for Google Fiber – KSHB
National
Blogged
- Williams: Call (maybe?) to see if startup life’s for you – Kaylee Williams
- Golf: The Game Of Life – Brent Beshore
- ISoft Data Systems: envisioning a future with softare solutions – Turbine Flats
- Stealing a page or two – Christian Renaud
- Integration Spotlight: Gravolla – Dwolla
- Mojaba Street-Level Analytics vs Google City-Level – Torsion Mobile
- The Formula For Creating A Plethora of Winning App Ideas – Matt Kamp
Misc.
- StartupIowa introduced the Iowa Startup and Entrepreneur Directory – StartupIowa blog
- Tech Cocktail is holding an event in Kansas City on October 17 – Tech Cocktail
Credits: Screenshot from desmoinesregister.com
