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. To submit an item for consideration, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.
Lead Reads
“Entrepreneurs banded together in 2012, but challenges remain” – Des Moines Register’s technology and entrepreneurship reporter Marco Santana takes a look back at four challenges the state’s tech community faced in 2012.
“Top Iowa technology stories in 2012” – Santana spotlights four stories from Iowa’s tech community in 2012.
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Quotable
“Appropriately, it’s entrepreneurial in itself,” – Advent IP’s David Milligan describes his newest venture, Mastercraft Advisors. – Omaha World-Herald
New tech
- MacPractice released MacPractice iEHR App with ePrescribe for iPad and iPad mini, a portable Electronic Health Records solution that operates with the company’s desktop practice management and clinical software – Press Release and macpractice.com
- MPA released TymeShift, an app connecting the time tracking app TSheets with the help desk app Zendesk – tymeshift.com, MPA Press Release, TSheets Press Release and Des Moines Register
Product and business updates
- Phenomblue and Dundee Venture Capital teamed up to launch Drop Kick Ventures, an “idea incubator” that aims to commercialize products developed inside creative, marketing and communication agencies – SPN and dropkickventures.com
- SkyVu Entertainment’s Battle Bears game franchise surpassed 20 million downloads – PocketGamer.biz, VentureBeat, SPN and Battle Bears blog
- SkyVu Entertainment released Battle Bears Royale in Google Play – Battle Bears blog and Google Play
- OneLouder rolled out its BaconReader for Reddit app optimized for Android tablets – OneLouder blog
Mentions
- Chad Feldmann of Far Reach – “Leap of faith pays off for Far Reach founder” – Cedar Valley Business Monthly
- Josh Larson or Wiev – “Higher Calling: The New Gospel of Christian Games” – Polygon
- Regan Carrizales of Silicon Prairie News – “The Pitch’s Questionnaire with Silicon Prairie News community builder Regan Carrizales” – Pitch
- “Entrepreneurs banded together in 2012, but challenges remain” – Des Moines Register
- “Top Iowa technology stories in 2012” – Des Moines Register
Gig bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- “Homes for Hackers experiments with ‘fiber tourism’ ” – Kansas City Business Journal
Recognition
- LockPath’s Keylight platform named a finalist for the 2013 SIIA Content CODiE Awards for Best Governance, Risk and Compliance Solution – Press Release
- Dwolla named one of Huffington Post’s “5 Great Tech Companies To Watch In 2013“
Blogged
- “When the site is free, you are the product” – Tej Dhawan
- “DVC Visits the Twin Cities” – Dundee Venture Capital
- “Connecting for Good – 2012 Year End Update” – Social Media Club of Kansas City
- “How to take a startup to stardom” – Kaylee Williams
- “Merry Christmas from Hudl” – Hudl
- “Nebrasketball has a Superfan. His name is Brandon Gries.” – Hudl
- “Front Flip Insider of the Week: Julianne Gross” – Front Flip
- “Crumpet The Elf On Change’s New Updates” – Change
- “The year responsive design starts to get weird” – Matt Waite
Misc.
- GoodTwin launched “Silicon Prairie Built,” – siliconprairiebuilt.com and SPN
- Local Ruckus launched “Built in Kansas City” – builtinkc.com and SPN
- Mastercraft Advisors – “4 companies’ alliance provides Fortune 500 services for startups” – Omaha World-Herald
- Mastercraft Advisors released its schedule of Lunch and Learns – mastercraftadvisors.com
- Two of Entrepreneur magazine’s “Women to Watch” are Pipeline Members (Maria Flynn and Olga Koper) – Entrepreneur magazine
- Lightbank, investors in SkyVu Entertainment: “Lightbank Aims To Change The VC Game As It Expands Its Investments Beyond Chicago” – TechCrunch
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