Guest post by Brian Gumm. A Coffee Problem In late 2013, in the small town of Toledo, Iowa, I found myself in a “Good Coffee desert.” From 2008-’12 my family had lived in a small […]
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Williams: OpenLoop Joins Techstars to Scale Freelance Medical Services Into New Markets
Guest post by Christian Williams. A founder’s dream. When Jon, Matt, and I founded OpenLoop we asked ourselves one question. Why are we starting a startup? I’d be lying if I said that we had […]
Mooney: Advice for startup founders
Guest post by Clayton Mooney. As a founder, I’ve been guilty of taking any and all advice. That’s because many of us have a hard time filtering the good advice from the bad advice. Why […]
Kimle: The Culture in Agriculture — Entrepreneurial or Not?
Guest post by Kevin Kimle. At the beginning of my appointment at Iowa State University in 2009, I traveled to Palo Alto, California for a conference for venture investors. The event, during the height of the […]
Matysik: Women in Tech — Pt. 1
This is the first of a three-part series of guest posts by Lauren Matysik that will highlight accomplished women in tech. The first interview is with Colleen Kinsey, a UX Strategist at LenderClose and founder […]
Mooney: Maybe there’s a better option for Iowa than a scout program?
Guest post by Clayton Mooney. Since boomerang’ing back to Iowa in 2014, I’ve developed Topophilia for Ames’ startup ecosystem. I believe the most beneficial loop that can happen here for wealth and resource creation is… […]
Nancy Mwirotsi: Rethinking STEM education & distance learning
Guest post by Nancy Mwirotsi. We must prepare for foundational shifts to virtually all industries, including a necessarily altered workforce profile. All jobs are quickly changing but we are not adapting to change as quickly […]
How to keep growing your business during COVID-19
Guest post by Michael Brook. We don’t know how long this is going to last, or what the long term implications will be. What we do know is that we have a business on the […]
A CLAY & MILK CARTOON: APRIL 18, 2020
Nathan T. Wright is an illustrator and artist based in Des Moines, Iowa, specializing in graphic recording, custom illustration projects and comics. Nathan built his art career in between digital marketing jobs at an advertising […]
A Clay & Milk Cartoon: April 18, 2020
Nathan T. Wright is an illustrator and artist based in Des Moines, Iowa, specializing in graphic recording, custom illustration projects and comics. Nathan built his art career in between digital marketing jobs at an advertising […]