Prairie Moves: A roundup of year-end, new year stories and blog posts
Lead Read: Happy New Year! In this first Prairie Moves of 2013 we’ve bundled up the year in review stories of 2012, and the “to watch” lists of 2013 (below). | Quotable: “So here are some of my harder lessons learned. More than one has come close to costing me everything once or twice over.”…
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Lead Read
Happy New Year! In this first Prairie Moves of 2013 we’ve bundled up the year in review stories of 2012, and the “to watch” lists of 2013 (below).
Quotable
“So here are some of my harder lessons learned. More than one has come close to costing me everything once or twice over.” – Ben Milne recapped his “hard lessons learned” in 2012 – Ben Milne’s blog
Netsmart, a provider of clinical solutions for health and human services organizations, acquired Defran Systems, a New York City-based developer of case, clinical and financial management software – Press Release and Kansas City Business Journal
Fundings
Submittal Exchange, a provider of web-based collaboration software for the commercial construction industry, was awarded $500,000 in direct financial assistance as well as tax benefits from the State of Iowa – Press Release
Dundee Venture Capital participated in an additional funding round with Graphicly, a digital marketplace for publishers – TechCrunch and Dundee Venture Capital blog
Career moves
Brandon Weber, formerly software engineer at Dwolla, joined Goodsmiths – Goodsmiths blog
Christopher Barnett joined EyeVerify as executive vice president of global sales and marketing – Press Release
Jesselyn Racine joined RecBob as color commentator
Jacob McDaniel left AgLocal to pursue his personal business, &Pixels – Jacob McDaniel blog
Alison Hult joined SecretPenguin as account director – SecretPenguin blog
Nebraska Angels president Bart Dillashaw, formerly of Scudder Law Firm, joined Koley Jessen
New tech
Linkminded, a community for developer and designer entrepreneurs, is accepting user requests – linkedminded.co and Facebook
Torsion Mobile announced the release of a new product in the Mojaba software as service line, Mojaba Analytics – Press Release
Product and business updates
Volano Solutions released the second version of Steelwool, a workflow management tool – Steelwool blog
Mechdyne Corporation announced Connection Portal, a web-based interface that allows everyone in an organization to access computer assets from anywhere within the enterprise – Press Release
The Helzberg Entrepreneurial Mentoring Program and the Kansas City Business Journal introduced a series of videos on topics of interest to business owners and managers – Kansas City Business Journal
Pipeline announced its Innovator of the Year national judges – Pipeline
RDQLUS Creative and Connoshoer’s Steve Gordon featured in Greater Omaha Chamber of Commerce recruiting video – “Only in Omaha – Steve Gordon“
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