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Lead Read
“Case: Regional investment in places like Des Moines will mark ’13” – The Des Moines Register reported that in a media call Monday, investor and startup advocate Steve Case (above) said he expects his firm to invest 80 percent of its 2013 capital in companies located outside of Silicon Valley and Boston.
Quotable
“The whole startup thing in Kansas City is like this huge growing beast … it’s got this crazy momentum.” – Homes for Hackers creator Ben Barreth said in a recent story focusing on the startup activity around Google Fiber. – Associated Press
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Mergers and acquisitions
- Underwriters Laboratories acquired Overland Park-based Innovadex, a search and information exchange platform for supplier chemicals, ingredients and raw materials – Press Release and Kansas City Business Journal
Fundings
- Social Money raised a $1 million internal round of financing – SPN
New tech
- Stackify launches its product that aims to help web development teams – SPN
New creative
- Electric Pulp launched a re-designed website – electricpulp.com
Product and business updates
- StartupCity Des Moines announced its program’s first graduate, Meidh Tech – StartupCity blog and Des Moines Register
- Social Money’s SmartyPig rolled out OneClick, a browser extension that allows SmartyPig users to start saving for a product on any ecommerce website – SmartyPig, Bank Technology News, Des Moines Register and SPN
- Goodsmiths added advisors Jeremie Miller, co-founder of Singly and Kellie Markey, former vice president of global direct marketing and vice president of international at eBay – James Eliason’s blog and Des Moines Register
- VinSolutions released VinMobile 2.0, a mobile CRM application – Press Release
- Bulu Box launched a member rewards program – Press Release
Mentions
- “Case: Regional investment in places like Des Moines will mark ’13” – Des Moines Register
- “Betting on Las Vegas, cultivating Des Moines: Where is America’s next Silicon Valley?” – Washington Post
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – “Future of the Foundation, Janice Kreamer and TomMcDonnel” – KCTP: The Local Show
Gig bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- “Google’s ultrafast internet draws startups to KC” – Associated Press
- “Facebook Gets Into Search” (Tune to 15:30 mark) – Tech News Today
- “Fiber Fridays! Google Fiber speed test on Speedtest.net.” – Kansas City Startup Village
Recognition
- Dwolla named among The Next Web’s “14 startups we predict will go even bigger in 2013“
Blogged
- “Moving Ecommerce Platforms? Don’t Blow It.” – Tegan Snyder
- “Customer Discovery” – Michael Wetta
- “17 Simple Questions Successful Entrepreneurs Ask Before Starting Anything New” – Brent Beshore
- “9 Dwolla tools for small business” – Dwolla
- “Behind The Design: Tills and The Drawer” – Change
- “Defining the Ops in DevOps” – Stackify
- “KC Startup Village Develops and Draws National Attention” – FormZapper
- “Hudl Champions Round IV” – Hudl
Misc.
- “Google boasts about former KCK company Zavers at NRF function” – Kansas City Business Journal
- Three members of Kansas City startup community spoke to a group in St. Louis – iTEN
- “Former US Sen. Kerrey takes job as executive chairman of startup university, Minerva Project” – The Republic
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