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
“A Bold Plan to Help Startups” – Startup America Partnership’s managing director of startup regions, Donna Harris, gives an update of the organization’s goal to help high-growth startups scale more successfully and support them through strong startup communities at a local level. – Innovation
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Quotable
“Keep building. It’s a tagline that many startups on the Silicon Prairie use, both in social media and in their approaches to building awesome companies. In that regard, we’re much the same at Lantern.” – Lantern announced that its co-founder and chief engineer Mark Milligan joined the team full-time – Lantern blog
Mergers & Acquisitions
- DealBug.com of Kansas City, Mo. merged with YourBestDeals.com of Thousand Oaks, Calif. – Press Release and Kansas City Business Journal
Career Moves
- Jerod Santos, formerly with RSDi, founded Object Lateral, a custom software company – Object Lateral announcement and objectlateral.com
- Mark Milligan, formely with Cerner, came on board Lantern full-time as chief engineer – Lantern blog
New Tech
- Jet Set Studio, a company that manages video game events, launched Tournament Seeker, a search engine for video game tournaments – Press Release and Des Moines Register
Mentions
- Weiv – Tech Spotlight: Creating a visual band – Des Moines Register
- Instin – Digital age comes to class ‘at warp speed’ – Kansas City Star
- MindMixer – ImproveSF Invites The Crowd Over For A Feast Of Healthy Ideas – Fast Company
- Scott Technology Center – From Startups to Standouts – The Reader
- Startup Weekend Lincoln – Inagural Startup Weekend Lincoln to Debut September 7-9 – Nebraska Entrepreneur
- Startup Weekend Lincoln – No app for that? Startup Weekend participants hope to build it – Lincoln Journal Star
- StartupIowa – A Bold Plan to Help Startups – Donna Harris
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- Another look at Fiberhood thresholds – Google Fiber Blog
- With Google Fiber Sign-Ups Behind Schedule, Google Lowers Pre-Registration Thresholds – TechCrunch
- Google adjusts home counts, lowering the Google Fiber threshold – Kansas City Star
- Garbage in garbage out: Google Fiber edition – GigaOm
- Google Master Plan Finally Comes To Light With Fiber Network – Seeking Alpha
- The Star’s editorial | Bridging the digital divide, KC style – Kansas City Star
Blogged
- Free myHomework in the Silicon Prairie! – myHomework
- Thanks for helping Goodsmiths become Silicon Prairie’s New Startup of the Year! – Goodsmiths
Misc.
- Kansas City IT Professionals released the video of its Kansas City Big Data keynote presenter – KCITP
- Krug Park, a bar in Omaha’s Benson district, is holding an Instagram scavenger hunt to celebrate its first anniversary – instahunt.krugpark.com
Credits: Screenshot from innovation-america.org
