MindMixer has its own line of Scout Books now. Sadly, you can’t buy them. They are only handed out at conferences, given to clients and provided in new employee welcome packages.
Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting regional content we’ve read as well as SPN’s most-read stories over the last week.
SPN’s most-read stories from last week
- Flywheel grows to 13 employees, plans move to Downtown office by Jordan Pascale (6/27)
- WebFilings changes name to Workiva, hones focus on Wdesk platform by Megan Bannister (7/1)
- Now you can see almost all athletes’ Twitter analytics with opendorse by Jordan Pascale (7/1)
- 105+ Iowa startup accounts you should follow on Twitter right now by Megan Bannister (7/2)
- What David Graff learned scaling the Hudl team from 3 to 170 by Guest Contributor (7/3)
Iowa
- ABC’s Shark Tank will hold an open casting call July 14 at the Iowa Events Center. — Shark Tank
- Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Company, IMT Insurance Company and Farm Bureau Financial Services have joined four other local insurance companies as part of Des Moines’ Global Insurance Accelerator.
- More press for Gravitate. — Des Moines Register
- Lessons learned from DSM Hack. — YPN Des Moines
Kansas City
- MindMixer has its own line of Scout Books, and gets a shoutout. — Scout Books
- What will it take to lure tech companies? Kansas City and its Google Fiber capability gets some love, but there are a lot more factors. — Forbes
- Wes Bergmann of Beta Blox has a guest post on preventable first-time mistakes for angel investors. — Venture Beat
- Adknowledge had its second acquisition in four months, meant to bolster its brand advertisers’ efforts on YouTube. — KCBJ
Nebraska
- How did we miss it last week? Hudl believes that we will win. And it’s awesome. (Even though we didn’t win). — YouTube
- Local boutique/ecommerce site Hello Holiday launches a new site. — Hello Holiday
- How Travefy “growth-hacked” with the Tripeese acquisition. — Fast Company
- Discount Salmon, the game that won Tabletop Deathmatch, made the local TV news. — KETV
- New social media consultancy will help businesses connect. — Omaha World-Herald
- Bulu Box’s Stephanie Jarrett was featured as female entrepreneur of the month. — Turnstone
- Rob Rhodes of InjuReplay was featured in Time’s 50 Heroes, 50 States. — Time Magazine
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