Every Monday Silicon Prairie News’ editorial team will share some of the interesting Midwest startup news we’ve read as well as SPN’s most-read stories over the last week in a tidy weekly recap.

SPN’s most-read stories from last week

1. An inside look at Hudl’s Omaha office, where astroturf acts as wallpaper by Jordan Pascale (9/3)
2. MindMixer scores one of the biggest raises in Prairie history by Jordan Pascale (9/2)
3. Entrepreneurship Index still shows bias to coasts, but Prairie catching up by Carson Vaughan (8/13)
4. Poll: What’s your startup’s vacation policy? by Fred Bauters (9/1)
5. Chris Cooley shares how SpiderOak’s distributed team works by Guest Contributor (8/29)

Iowa

• We Create Here’s Sarah Binder share why Startup Weekends are one of her favorite entrepreneurial events. — Startup Weekend Iowa City
• Ames-based Workiva, formerly WebFilings, makes a few cameos in this Google for Work video. — YouTube
• Do you know the difference between an accelerator and incubator? How about what an entrepreneurial center of gravity is? Geoff Wood has answers. — Welch Avenue
• The Iowa Economic Development Authority wrote about Iowa’s thriving startup scene, giving a nod to this year’s Silicon Prairie Award winners. — IEDA
• The Iowa Startup Accelerator was one of 50 winners of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s first Growth Accelerator Fund competition. ISA received $50,000 from the SBA. — Des Moines Register

Kansas City

• Last week Mariner Holdings acquired a majority stake in Leawood, Kan.-based venture capital fund Flyover Capital. — Kansas City Business Journal
• Kansas City, on both sides of the line, is still in search of a “killer app” to make use of Google Fiber’s insane speeds. — The New York Times
• Shawnee Mission Northwest grad Kyle Vogt is out west now in San Francisco, where he was a big part of the Amazon acquisition of Twitch. He’s the co-founder of its original moniker, Justin.tv. — Kansas City Star
• Fitbark got all sorts of love from press the last week, as it presented at the Animal Health Investment Forum. It got some more from The Star. — Kansas City Star

Nebraska

• Ok, we know the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a bit old at this point, but this one by MowDo is a good one. Ice + Grass. — MowDo
• Travefy CEO, David Chait, named to PhoCusWright’s 35 Under 35 in Travel. — PRWeb
• Nick Bowden, MindMixer CEO, blogs about “Why we raised $17 million.” — Medium
• Borrow For Your Bump is featured in an article about maternity fashion. — Omaha World-Herald