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. To submit an item for consideration, please email editor@siliconprairienews.com or use the form below.

Lead Reads

“Register Exclusive: Fund’s bailout costs Iowans $26 million” – The Des Moines Register looks at the unstable status of Iowa Fund of Funds, a state program created in 2002 with an aim to attract more venture capital investment in Iowa startups.

“A classic case of misdirection” – StartupCity Des Moines’ Christian Renaud reacts to The Register’s story, sharing his perspective on where the Iowa Fund of Funds went wrong.

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Quotable

“When I start my next project (if I do start another one…which is very likely) I will probably be very calculated about the way I do it. And I probably wouldn’t go about it the same way.” – Dwolla co-founder Ben Milne said in an interview with Path.To. – Path.To

Fundings

• ABPathfinder closes $400,000 Series A round with final $270,000 from Dundee Venture Capital – Press Release, Kansas City Business Journal and SPN

Career moves

• Mary McLean, previously the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s managing director of investments, was named the foundation’s chief investment officer – Press Release

New tech

• MacPractice released HIPAA-compliant patient check-in app for iPad and iPad mini – Press Release and MacPractice Patient Check In App

Product and business updates

• The first client of Social Money’s GoalSaver, India’s ICICI Bank, launched iWish – SPN and Des Moines Register
• MacPractice released verion 4.2 of its Clipboard app for iPad and iPad mini – Press Release
• Cognovant released version 1.2 of its PocketHealth app – Press Release
• Tikly was selected as ticket vendor for the 8,000-ticket Blue Ribbon Bacon Festival – Press Release
• Truckily released a new website and promotional video – truckily.com

Mentions

• Loop Loft – “Tech Spotlight: Staying in the loop with looploft.com” – Des Moines Register
• Dwolla – “Dwolla Builds Mobile Payment Network Of The Future” – TechWebTV
• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation – “New Kauffman CEO McDonnell promises ‘interaction and openness’ ” – Kansas City Business Journal
• Iowa Fund of Funds – “Register Exclusive: Fund’s bailout costs Iowans $26 million” – Des Moines Register
• Ben Milne of Dwolla – “Path.to Inspiration: Ben Milne” – Path.to
• Dusty Davidson of SPN and Flywheel – “Dusty Davidson on building great teams and processes” – Nebraska Entrepreneur
• “Gallup’s Entrepreneur Acceleration System program” – “Entrepreneurs credit Gallup strategies for growth” – Omaha World-Herald
• “Iowa startups unite” – Des Moines Register
• “Kansas City Is Building America’s Most Entrepreneurial City” – Huffington Post
• “Kansas City’s Innovation Doesn’t Stop At Kansas/Missouri State Line.” – Huffington Post

Gig bits

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• “GOOG: Move to Kansas City? Rising Enthusiasm for Google Fiber, Says Capstone” – Barron’s
• “Google Fiber, you had our curiosity. Now you have our attention” – PandoDaily

Recognition

• Kansas City was recognized by Forbes on its “15 Best Cities for Female Entrepreneurs” list – Forbes

Blogged

• “A classic case of misdirection” – Christian Renaud
• “Behind the Design: Ordering” – Change
• “The Non-Entrepreneur’s Guide to Starting in Startups” – Brent Beshore
• “Front Flip Insider of the week Lauren Reece” – Front Flip
• “Mayans, Disney Princesses, and Denzel Washington, Meet Mark Ketcham” – Hudl
• “Data, the Non-issue” – Jack Perry
• “EAS Impact Summit” – Volano Solutions
• “You can now touch Dwolla: Paper Digital Money” – Dwolla
• “Tis the season to be generous #giveDecember” – Dwolla
• “Are Business Plans a Historical Artifact?” – Business Innovation Zone
• “HTML5 Video: Lessons Learned” – Don’t Panic Labs
• “Dwolla Here: First step to a lot more” – Brett Neese
• “People first, technology second.” – Brett Neese

Misc.

• Health Outcomes Sciences, a healthcare IT firm, plans to relocate to Overland Park where it is projecting to add 37 new jobs within the next five years – Press Release, Kansas City Star and Kansas City Business Journal
• Singly launched the open beta of its platform (Singly co-founder Jermie Miller resides in Cascade, Iowa) – Press Release and TechCrunch
• The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Tom Ruhe interviewed SPN’s Jeff Slobotski on “Top of Mind with Tom Ruhe” – Entrepreneurship.org
• “Success of Garmin starts with co-founder Min Kao” – Kansas City Star
• “Tippie’s Twitter Essay: An MBA Admissions Experiment Gone Awry” – Businessweek

 

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Credits: Screenshots from desmoinesregister.com and christianrenaud.com.

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