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What is Prairie Moves?
Published Tuesdays and Thursdays, Prairie Moves keeps our readers informed about career moves, media coverage, product development, and more from the companies and individuals we cover on Silicon Prairie News.
If you or your company would like to submit one of the items below for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com. And if you have suggestions on how we could improve these posts or any of our coverage, please contact danny@siliconprairienews.com.
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Fundings
- StartupCity Des Moines received the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s board approval for a $250,000 royalty agreement through the Opportunities and Threats program – iowalifechanging.com, Des Moines Register and SPN post
Career Moves
- Sojern (San Francisco office, Omaha-based) brought on Parag Vohra as General Manager, Vertical Development and Jeff Mills as Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Western Region sales – prnewswire.com
New Tech
- CheckASchedule (Omaha), an application designed to “organize restaurants’ schedules the easy way,” launched into beta – checkaschedule.com and SPN post
- Phenomblue (Omaha) introduced jTube, a JQuery YouTube plugin – more.phenomblue.com
New Creative
- SecretPenguin (Omaha) launched a new website and branding for inCommon Community Development – incommoncd.org
- Far Reach Technologies (Des Moines) developed a new website for Waterloo Tent & Tarp – waterlootent.com and farreachinc.com
Product/Business Development
- Syncbak (Marion, Iowa) added MHz Networks to its national field of broadcasters selected for field testing – mhznetworks.com
Media Mentions
- Pongr (Boston-based, Des Moines office) – Mashable: “Pepsi Packaging Promotes “The X Factor” With Photo-Scanning Contest“
- Shane Farritor of Mrail and Virtual Incision (both of Lincoln, Neb.) – Nebraska Entrepreneur: “Farritor’s Lessons on Angel and Venture Capital Funding“
- Josh Cramer of Cramer Development (Iowa City, Iowa) – Insights and Ingenuity: Why ditributed teams win
- Joe Kepley from Blend Interactive (Sioux Falls, S.D.) – eZ: “eZ Interviews Joe Kepley from Blend Interactive“
- Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s “Big 5” ideas (#5: America’s Most Entrepreneurial City) – KCPT: “Kansas City Week in Review : September 16, 2011” (tune in at 19:55)
- Zaarly (Kansas City office, San Franscisco-based) – Bostinnovation: “From a Failed Startup to Expanding Zaarly’s College Presence, It’s All About Connections” and “What do Ashton Kutcher, a Rabbi & #FutureM All Have In Common“, Chicago Sun Times: “‘Liquid job market’ for Zaarly go-getters“, Ad Age: “10 Startups to Watch: Zaarly“, The Daily Titan: “ZaarlyU connects people across Cal State Fullerton” and LJ World: “Heard on the Hill: New Zaarly website comes to KU“
- Startup Weekend Omaha – Omaha World-Herald: “Nelson: Startups must be nimble“, University of Nebraska-Omaha Gateway: “Sen. Nelson speaks at Startup Weekend Omaha” and Omaha World-Herald: “Start-up’s app tackles diet needs“
- Dwolla (Des Moines) – Credit Union Times: “Dwolla Adds SMS, LinkedIn Tools to Payments Set“
- Levi Rosol of Eliason Media (Des Moines) – Uses This – Silicon Prairie Edition: “Levi Rosol“
Misc.
- Startup Weekend Omaha was won by Your Happy Plate – SPN post
- Rob Jensen (Des Moines) launched a blog, Uses This – Silicon Prairie Edition – usesthis-sp.com
- Patrick Smith of Nebraska Global (Lincoln) spoke at the Lincoln Chamber of Commerce’s “Face the Chamber” event – SPN post
- Nebraska Entrepreneur kicked off a series on Funding – nebraskaentrepreneur.com
- Digital Evolution Group (Kansas City) earned two top honors at ExactTarget Connections conference as they were recognized for their email design work for Helzberg Diamonds and named ExactTarget’s Reseller Partner of the Year – youtube.com
