By Nate Matherson, Co-founder of ContainIQ. Nate is an experienced entrepreneur having founded multiple venture-backed startups which have notably been funded by Y Combinator and others.
If there’s one thing the pandemic has taught us it’s that the American workforce likes remote work – and they’re pretty good at it too. A recent Stanford study…
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Guest post by Derek Balsley. This story was originally published on LinkedIn.
After more than eleven years of building The Art of Education University (AOEU), taking the institution from 2 employees to more than 150, I’m proud to announce that Jessica Balsley and I are stepping down from our respective roles as President and CEO. …
Guest post by Aaron Horn. Aaron is the Executive Director of NewBoCo, a nonprofit that created programs such as the Iowa Startup Accelerator, DeltaV Code School, Kiva Iowa, NewBoCo K-12, Intrapreneur Academy, and others supporting entrepreneurship, tech education, and innovation.
Our nonprofit has learned a thing or two over the past eight years as we’ve…
Guest post by Jay Cooper. Jay is an entrepreneur and ecosystem builder based in Iowa City. He’s organized Startup Weekend Iowa City and 1 Million Cups Iowa City since 2018, and helped create Startup Weekend Iowa Online in 2021. His startup, Cider Finder, works to bring together cider makers and enthusiasts through technology, over one…
Guest post by Clayton Mooney, co-founder and CEO of Nebullam. This story was originally published on Substack.
The odds are always against us while building technology companies. After all, if you succeed, you’ll have changed the way the world works—and hopefully for the better.
Along the way, you’ll meet many individuals and organizations who want to…
Guest post by Eric Engelmann, General Partner at Cedar Rapids-based ISA Ventures. This story was originally published on Substack.
Your cap table tells a story about your business: it contains the people and organizations who’ve invested in the company during each chapter of your company’s history. As a founder, you need to manage that cap table story…
Guest post by Nancy Mwirotsi and Rosalind Carey.
The U.S. labor force is facing a crisis that’s been brewing for decades and has become readily apparent thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of Americans are without jobs, yet millions of job postings are unfilled. A 2021 data review published by Emsi found that as of…
A week ago I took my first real “vacation” of the COVID-era, joining tens of thousands of Iowa State football fans in Las Vegas for the Cyclones game against UNLV. It was the first time that I’d been on an airplane or stayed in a hotel since 2019. I bought the tickets last Spring just…
Guest post by Clayton Mooney.
I returned with ZERO promising leads, my first 3 trips to Silicon Valley.
Meetings led to “you’re too early for us,” “it’s not a right fit, but please add us to your updates,” and “I challenge you to think bigger.”
One of these pieces of feedback is not like the…
The Summer Startup Tour has finished, and here’s what we learned.
People are taking bets on themselves (again). Iowan’s are starting new businesses at a record pace. Sparked by the pandemic, there is a resurgence of people solving problems, creating, trying a side hustle, and starting businesses.
Why is Des Moines, Iowa unique to the…
Very rarely do we build something that assembles its own legs, understands the direction it needs to go, and then moves.
At Nebullam, we’ve built many pieces of growing equipment and business models which never gained a heartbeat. In our first 3 years, we saw our company as a provider of growing equipment, to new and…
Guest post by Dylan Kurt.
I was fortunate enough to attend Business Horizons, a 5 day long camp at Central College where students learn about life, leadership & business, meet amazing people, and have fun.
When students first arrive, they get a bag full of “goodies” along with their binder. The binder provides students with…