While he was a student, Grayson Burgess started to design superhero gadgets and props. In 2015, he established Comic Sandwiches and began creating selling his collection for superhero fans. Comic Sandwiches creates authentic, life-size prop […]
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Cider Finder: connecting people who love craft cider with people who sell it.
A new app is looking to help people who love craft cider with the people connect with cider makers and sellers. Cider Finder is an app currently in development that connects local craft cider makers and […]
Fluttr: A video sharing platform designed for creators
Two entrepreneurs are working to find a solution to the growing concern of demonetization and censorship on video hosting platforms. Kyle Marvin and Evan Pischel noticed a growing frustration among the online video creator community […]
ActWorthy: Social media for social change
In the midst of the 2016 election, Ross Katz found himself questioning what he had once felt were a shared sense of values and wanted to do something about it. After looking around, Katz soon […]
Principal: Going from a startup to corporate
A familiar face in the Des Moines startup community, Tej Dhawan was looking for his next challenge. What he found qualifies. Dhawan is the Chief Data Officer at Principal, the Des Moines-based financial services company […]
Scouting Report: Death Ball brings soccer and wizardry to the arcade
The cost of starting a company is what attracted Tony Hauber and his wife back to his hometown in Northeast Iowa from San Francisco last Spring. Hauber is the designer of Death Ball, an arcade […]
VolunteerLocal: Sustaining momentum
Slow and steady wins the race… That’s the mindset Kaylee Williams uses with VolunteerLocal, a company that developed a platform to manage volunteer scheduling, registration and communications. As her role has grown—going from intern to […]
Scouting Report: Hunterra Mapping comes from D.C to Iowa City
A Father’s Day gift from a cartographer at the National Counter Terrorism Center in Washington D.C turned into a business. Hunterra is an Iowa City-based company that creates custom hunting maps for hunters, land professionals and […]
Marmoset: A tool bag for 3D designers and game developers
A group of game developers decided they would rather make tools for game developers and 3D artists rather than develop games themselves. So four developers founded Marmoset in January of 2012, a computer software tools company […]
Resume Assassin: Help with getting hired
As someone who has worked in human resources departments and higher education, Mary Southern has helped students and established professionals get jobs. So four years ago she took that knowledge and turned it into a […]