Prairie Moves: NPR Morning Edition highlights AgLocal

Lead Read: “App Will Match Farmers With Meat Distributors” – The pre-launch buzz around AgLocal continues as it gets attention from NPR Morning Edition. Quotable: “We’d go to 37 Signals forums and …

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Lead Read

App Will Match Farmers With Meat Distributors” – The pre-launch buzz around AgLocal continues as it gets attention from NPR Morning Edition (above)

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Quotable

“We’d go to 37 Signals forums and find people begging for Google Contacts integration. We’d go to Salesforce and find people begging for Evernote integration. It was literally a gold mine.” – Wade Foster blogging about finding Zapier’s first paying customer – Zapier blog

Career Moves

  • Abraham Chavez, Michael Williams, Dan Glasser, Toby Schroder joined Hudl’s product team
  • Jared Stauffer, Jason Criser, Jason West and Tyler Bell joined Hudl’s support team
  • Cody Peterson, formerly with SecretPenguin, began work as a freelance graphic designer – Cody Peterson blog and SecretPenguin blog
  • Phenomblue brought on three summer interns – Phenomblue blog

Mentions

  • Footwork – Footwork Wants to Help Ease the Burden of Door-to-Door Campaigning – BetaKit
  • AgLocal – App Will Match Farmers With Meat Distributors – NPR Morning Edition
  • Zapier – Local trio behind Zapier credit Columbia ties – Columbia Daily Tribune
  • RecBob – Chicago TechWeek: RecBob Recreational Sports, Socially – Nibletz 
  • Dwolla – Dwolla Empowers Small Businesses to Ditch Visa and Mastercard [Techweek] – Firmology
  • RareWire – RareWire turns the page on new uses for its apps, targets broader focus – Kansas City Business Journal
  • RareWire – RareWire app seeks to channel All-Star Game buzz toward Negro Leagues museum – Kansas City Business Journal

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Blogged

  • Iceland surprisingly familiar – Brent Beshore
  • Syte’s Unexpected Traction and Numbers – Rodrigo Neri
  • The Anatomy of Sales at a Startup or How Andrew Warner Became Our First Paying Customer – Zapier
  • Nebraska Digital: 21st century web development solutions for 21st century businesses – Turbine Flats
  • The Problem with PaaS – Michael Bleigh
  • Win Their Loyalty: Ensure Your Customers Feel Special – Alana Muller
  • In-depth with the Think Big i-Team: Mariah Rittel – Think Big Partners

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