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.
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Lead Read
“Why the two hottest US startups in payments might collaborate to marginalize Visa and Mastercard” – Quartz lays out an argument for how a collaboration between Dwolla and Square could disrupt retail payment services.
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“But overall, I can recommend PeggyBank.” – Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg puts his stamp of approval on PeggyBank, a startup that converts its users’ legacy media into digital content. – Wall Street Journal
Career Moves
- Matthew Marcus, formerly the CTO for Kula Cuases, joined Local Ruckus as co-founder and CTO
- Matt Harris joined Montessorium as head of design – Montessorium blog
- Ryan Downs, formerly president of Proxibid, has been named CEO of the company. Bruce Hoberman, formerly CEO, will continue to serve as chairman of the board. – Press Release
- Rainbow Rowell, formerly with the Omaha World-Herald, joined Oxide Design Co. – Oxide Design Co. blog
New Tech
- FolioBoy, a startup that offers a souped-up, online version of a résumé and portfolio, launched – folioboy.com and SPN
Product & Business Updates
- adFreeq, a social media driven ad platform, was accepted into St. Louis accelerator Capitol Innovators – Missouri School of Journalism
- Benaissance announced it has realigned itself based upon its three core offerings: 1) Carrier and government solutions; 2) Administrator solutions; and 3) Financial institution solutions – Press Release
- Clickstop broke ground on 42,750-square-foot warehouse expansion – Press Release
- Hudl released a new look for reports – Hudl blog
- Cognovant added Liz Scherer to its advisory board – Press Release
Mentions
- Dwolla – Why the two hottest US startups in payments might collaborate to marginalize Visa and Mastercard – Quartz
- Dwolla – Dwolla’s Speedy Alternative to ACH – American Banker
- PeggyBank – Bringing Your Old-Media Memories Into the Digital Age – Wall Street Journal
- 9 Cities You Wouldn’t Think Are Hubs for Tech Startups – Entrepreneur
- Blogglebeans – Omaha moms launch Blogglebeans for child-grandparent interaction – Nebraska Entrepeneur
- Matthew Smith of Real Estate Fan Pages – The Entrepreneurs: Matthew Smith – Des Moines Business Record
- Iowa Internet Uncaucus – Tech, startup experts speak out on online restrictions – Des Moines Register
- Iowa Internet Uncaucus – Internet Uncaucus Promises to be a ‘New Kind of Caucus’ – Mashable
- Bill Fisher – Omaha’s Other Oracle – Bank Technology News
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- Eating Google Fiber: Cash-Strapped Non-Profit Bridges Digital Divide – PandoDaily
- Web Rivals Want What Google Got – Wall Street Journal
Recognition
- Stackify made SDTimes.com “Companies to Watch: 2013” list – SDTimes.com
Blogged
- Creating a Digital Sandbox for Kansas City – KC SourceLink
- On the Road with Mojaba – Torsion Mobile
- Six Months of Win – CoVis Coworking
- Startup different from small business – Andy Stoll
- Mike Lowery – Montessorium
- Marloes de Vries – Montessorium
- Startups, Is It Better To Be Loved Or Needed? – Tyler Prochnow
- Think Big Accelerator in Full Swing in Kansas City – Think Big Partners
- Seedlauncher (Video) – Seedlauncher
- Hugs and Kisses from Portland – Ellen Wilde
- Gov. Terry Branstad holds tech town hall at StartupCity Des Moines – StartupCity Des Moines (Video)
- Midwest Governors Association annual meeting kicks off at StartupCity Des Moines – StartupCity Des Moines
- Curious Customer Expectations – Growthology
- Pipeline is a Gold Medal Program for Innovators – Dusty Reynolds
- Divshot: A KCSW Success Story – Kansas City Startup Weekend
Misc.
- Code for America chooses Kansas City as partner in 2013 fellowship – Code for America and SPN
- Infegy released its “Top 50 Social Brands” report – Press Release
- Kanasas City IT Professionals released the final video from its Kansas City Big Data: The Future Of Insights event – KCITP
- What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live? – Mark Suster
- StartupCity Des Moines released video of Brad Dwyer’s Facebook API Lunch and Learn – StartupCity
- Google Maps’ rollout of new high resolution 45° imagery includes three Iowa cities (Ames, Dubuque and Sioux City) and Sioux Falls, S.D. – TechCrunch
- Shane Adam of AMC Theaters – “Oreo Gets Dunked by One of the Best Twitter Replies Ever Sneaking snacks into a movie theater? Not cool, cookie” – AdWeek
Credits: Screenshot of qz.com