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.
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Lead Read
“Our Busiest Support Month by the Numbers” – Hudl shares statistics of its support team’s work in August, which included a day that saw more than 1,000 support phone calls answered.
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Quotable
“As the city prepares to host its first Startup Weekend on Friday, aspiring entrepreneurs need look no further than the $1.3 billion sale of Kenexa to IBM, announced last week.” – A Lincoln Journal Star editorial looks at the city’s support for startups. – Lincoln Journal Star
Fundings
- Pollenware raised a $9.1 million round led by Union Square Ventures – Press Release and SPN
Career Moves
- Brooke Benschoter, formerly with Strategic America, joined Torsion Mobile as its chief marketing officer – Press Release
- Bob Davidson joined Blend Interactive as a developer – Blend Interactive blog
- Christopher Hamze joined Electric Pulp – Electric Pulp on Facebook
New Tech
- Clickstop, an ecommerce company, launched JustPlasticBoxes.com, a site that sells plastic storage boxes in case-pack quantities which allows for wholesale pricing – Press Release
- Better Homes and Gardens launched Paint Anything app – App Store and Mashable
Mentions
- Dwolla – Are dollars on the web a credit card killer? – Reconteur
- ActiveGrade – Interview with Riley Eynon-Lynch – AOL
- Sporting Innovations – Reborn to run: Sporting Kansas City finds glory with innovative approach – Sporting News
- RAZ Mobile – Startup Profile: RAZ Mobile – Helping Non-Profits Better Engage a New Generation of Supporters – Social IRL
- Nate Olson of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – The Pitch Questionnaire with 1 Million Cups’ Nate Olson – The Pitch
- Lincoln fertile ground for startups – Lincoln Journal Star
- Startups: Not Just for Silicon Valley Anymore – Huffington Post
- These 12 cities are a startup paradise, according to young entrepreneurs – Tech Cocktail
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- KC district sets up hotline for Google questions – Associated Press
- Cities to meet with Google Fiber officials – The Chieftain
- Last pre-registration questions? – Google Fiber Blog
- Google Fiber will extend network to Westwood, Westwood Hills and Mission Woods – Kansas City Business Journal
- How Kansas City taxpayers support Google Fiber – Ars Technica
Recognition
- The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier named Banno one of the top 20 employers in the Cedar Valley
Blogged
- The 2012 Dwolla Bikeup Recap – Dwolla
- Dominate Breast Cancer with Hudl Breast Cancer Awareness Shirts – Hudl
- Our Busiest Support Month by the Numbers – Hudl
- Our Goals – Don’t Panic Labs
- Where Should I Locate My Startup? – Growthology
Misc.
- Kansas City IT Professionals posted a video of the panel discussion from its Kansas City Big Data event – KCTIP
- The Technology Association of Iowa opened nominations for its Iowa Women of Innovation awards – TAI
- Path.to, job opportuntiy matchmaking site, added cities Omaha, Kansas City and Des Moines – Path.to blog
- Kansas City, Mo. mayor Sly James announced Kansas City will host Summit on the New American City – CityAge
Credits: Screenshot from hudl.com.