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.
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).
"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
Year-end, new year stories and blog posts
Mergers and acquisitions
- 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
- Dwolla redesigned its website - dwolla.com and Dwolla blog
Mentions
- Hudl - "Q&A with Hudl CEO David Graff" - OU Sports
- BillMyParents - "Teaching teens to be money-smart is exec's passion" - Des Moines Business Record
- My Diabetes Home - "12 on-the-go health tools for your smartphone" - Diabetes Forecast
- Stackify - "Show me success: Stacking up Against development roadblocks" - Missouri.com
- Bulu Box - "Discovering the Product for You with the Help of Bulu Box" - Nebraska Entrepreneur
- VolunteerLocal - "Tech Spotlight: Software helps organizations coordinate volunteers" - Des Moines Register
- RevDel - "Energy, Persistence and a Great Idea: The Story of Patrick Stoddart and Startup RED" - Think Big Partners
- Wade Arnold of Banno - "Wade Arnold: Coder in the Cornfields" - Bank Technology News
- Christian Gurney of Torsion Mobile - "10 Motivation Stategies for Entrepreneurs" -?Tech Cocktail
- Chris and Becca Jones of Shapely - "Q+A | Chris and Becca Jones, creators of the Shapely app"?- Kansas City Star
- "Iowans put their tech skills to work for Obama" - Des Moines Register
- "TAI wants state to reward tech students who stay in Iowa" - Des Moines Register
Gig bits
Gig Bits is an occasional feature keeping our readers up to speed on Google Fiber.?Read Gig Bits.
- "Ultra-broadband: Google invests the 'Silicon Prairie' " - LesEchos.fr
- "In the (?Fiber) Hood: Bloch Alumnus Takes Advantage of Google Fiber" - Bloch News
Recognition
- Social Media Club of Kansas City recognized as "Outstanding Chapter of the Year" - SMCKC blog
Blogged
- "Paying It Forward Never Felt So Good" - Ben Barreth
- "CES,?Unencumbered" - Jack Perry
- "On Entrepreneurship, Risk and Uncertainty" - Grant Stanley
- "Allowd: Solving a big problem for Dwolla merchants" - Dwolla
- "What can you learn from a 'hackathon' that didn?t work" -?Gary Kebbel
- "Beloved Bits, 2012" -?Jerod Santo
- "Top Hacker News Content of 2012" - Jerod Santo
- "10 Ways My Perspective Has Changed" - Brent Beshore
- "Front Flip Insider of the Week: Matt Ireland" - Front Flip
- "Front Flip Insider of the Week: Chris Wheaton" - Front Flip
- "Derek Jeter, Deuce McAllister, and Brianna Black" - Hudl
- "Peanut Butter and Nerds, Todd Prauner?s Snack of Choice" - Hudl
Misc.
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