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
“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
One Week KC
- Innovation: Fostering Creativity in the Workplace – Think Big Kansas City
- Steve Jobs “Got it”… Will You? – Think Big Kansas City
- Entrepreneurship Advice from the Smartest Women in the Biz – Think Big Kansas City
- Herb Sih’s Fire Up: How to Get S*#! Done Fast (Plus a Recap of iKC’s Fire Ups) – Think Big Kansas City
- Getting Social & Going Viral Panel Ruffles a Few Feathers at iKC – Think Big Kansas City
- GoMobileKC Recap: Mobile Entrepreneurs & App Developers Ready to Change the World – Think Big Kansas City
- Waffles Are Just Pancakes with Syrup Traps: Startup Waffles – Think Big Kansas City
Gig Bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber. Read Gig Bits.
- Rosedale Community WiFi Network Plan – Connecting for Good
- Rosedale Wi-Fi co-op to share Google Internet hook-ups – Kansas City Star
- Google: A quarter of Kansas Citians don’t have Internet at home – Kansas City Business Journal
- Google’s study of area shows a digital divide – Kansas City Star
- Google Blog Points Out Digital Literacy Problem in KC – Google Connects KC
- Google and MBIT Release Digital Divide Report for Kansas City – Google Connects KC
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
Misc.
- Divshot Named as a Finalist in CROWDSTART LA – CROWDSTART LA blog and Divshot blog
- RecBob posted pictures from its tailgate with Silicon Prairie News at the College World Series – RecBob on Facebook
- Ben Milne of Dwolla’s talk at Techweek was posted – Techweek on Livestream
Credits: Screenshot from npr.org
