What is Prairie Moves?

Published Tuesdays and Fridays, Prairie Moves is a roundup of career changes, media coverage, product development and other updates from the companies and individuals regularly covered by Silicon Prairie News.

If you or your company would like to submit an item for our next Prairie Moves post, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Read

“Up Close: Peter deSilva, president of UMB Bank” – The Kansas City Business Journal’s Alyson Raletz interviews Peter deSilva, the champion of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 initiative to make Kansas City America’s “most entrepreneurial city.”

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Quotable

“What I’m trying to get at, in what feels like ten billion words, is that a lot of people are trying to help us and there are a lot of opportunities to find.” – ActiveGrade co-founder Riley Eynon-Lynch says “thanks” in a blog post that provides updates of the startup’s progress. – ActiveGrade blog

Fundings

• Banno will receive a $1 million loan from the Iowa Economic Development Authority’s Innovation Acceleration Fund and a matching $1 million loan from the private sector – IEDA and SPN

Career Moves

• Hugh Weber joined Montessorium as Chief Cultural Officer – Montessorium blog

New Tech

• Electric Human released Due Date, a stork delivery game on iOS – App Store

New Creative

• 42 completes largest project to date with barHappy redesign – 42 blog
• Digital Evolution Group launched a new website for Bushnell – bushnell.com

Product & Business Updates

• Montessorium “completely reworked” Alpha Writer – App Store and Montessorium blog
• RecBob chosen to present at DEMO – Des Moines Register
• Angel Capital Group announces new membership program, Angel Explorer – Press Release
• inCharge will launch three kiosks at Livestrong Sporting Park in Kansas City on Friday – SPN

Mentions

• eCreamery – Shark Tank – ABC
• eCreamery – Omaha’s eCreamery ‘swimming in orders’ after ‘Shark Tank’ airing – Omaha World-Herald
• John Schnipkoweit of RecBob – Co-founder And CEO of RecBob Facebook App For Adult Recreational Sports – Killer Startups
• ActiveGrade – Forget Traditional Report Cards! Education Startup ActiveGrade Is Going To Revolutionize The Grading System – Killer Startups
• Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 Ideas – Up Close: Peter deSilva, president of UMB Bank – Kansas City Busienss Journal
• Drone Journalism Lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln – Drones: Journalists With Flying Robots – Online News Association

Gig Bits

Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.

• Want Google Fiber? Choose your plan now! – Google Fiber Blog
• Google Fiber’s gigabit gamble has implications far beyond KC – Kansas City Star
• Google Fiber Speed Test (download and upload) – Ramsey Mohsen
• Google Fiber: Speed Testing Facebook, YouTube, and Netflix – Ramsey Mohsen

Blogged

• Thank You: Local Support, Teacher Support, National Support – ActiveGrade
• Production Access Denied! Who caused this rule anyways? – Matt Watson
• How Far Should You Develop an Idea Before Selling It? – Growthology
• Pipeline’s powerful network and it’s impact on a serial entrepreneur – Toby Rush
• Hello Zeptonn – Montessorium
• Sans Laptop – Jack Perry
• Five Questions Answered About Book’d – Book’d
• 10 things you do online that would never fly IRL – Ramsey Mohsen
• The 9 People on My Bucket List – Brent Beshore

Misc.

• The Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City announced both their graduate and undergraduate entrepreneurship programs have been ranked among the top 20 in the nation by Princeton Review – Press Release
• Iowa part of inaugural Google for Entrepreneurs Week – SPN
• Though Matt Waite’s Knight News Challenge submission, “Internet of Things,” did not win a grant, it was named a finalist – Knight Foundation
• The Nebraska Chamber of Commerce and Industry is using MindMixer to collect ideas – NebraskaIdeas.com and Omaha World-Herald
• Marketplace: The United States of Tech – American Public Media

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