It's one thing to sell somebody a new lawnmower by telling them how it drives.
It's another thing to have them virtually test drive it on a virtual lawn.
Using augmented and virtual reality technology the Des Moines-based team at Shift Interactive are able to take their clients to a space that has been unheard of in…
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Last week I sat in on a meeting with Paul Pate, Iowa’s two-time Secretary of State, held at the Greater Des Moines Partnership. The meeting was one of several listening sessions that the Secretary has held across Iowa in recent months to find ways to improve our local business climate.
Among other duties, the Secretary of…
Next Level Ventures – a Des Moines based venture capital firm – announced Tej Dhawan as a senior advisor Wednesday according to a news release.
Dhawan will assist in making investments and managing portfolio companies, according to the release.
Dhawan is a partner with the Urbandale-based Entrepreneurial Technologies and is involved with Plains Angels, the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator and the Global Insurance…
As a fifth generation, Northwest Iowa dairy farmer Steve Brockshus remembers going to land sales and always asking his father what the land would go for and what it was worth.
As he got older he stayed curious.
“I started asking questions, talking with other farmers and learned that having access to updated information on what land…
We wanted our first event to reflect what this website was created to do: Amplify the stories from the startup, tech and arts communities.
So on Friday, July 7 our first is called Cocktails & Critiques and it's at Olson-Larsen Galleries highlighting the paintings of Christopher Chiavetta.
A happy hour starts the event at 4:30 with speakers…
Increasing production by 20,000 is a lot easier for Thelma’s owner Dereck Lewis than increasing production by two million.
But that’s the way the cookie crumbles.
What started as a mom and her son selling cookies and ice cream sandwiches at the Des Moines Farmers Market has evolved into an operation with a 17,000 square foot office…
I’ve covered dozens of classic car shows over the past decade, and to be honest, it’s one of my easier assignments.
All I have to do is point my tape recorder at one of the car owners and let their exuberance flow into the story. Even the shyest car guys can’t resist relating tales of the…
Fourteen Midwestern startup communities were ranked by the Silicon Prairie News in the first ever "State of the Silicon Prairie Report" that found Ames being the top startup community.
According to the report, SPN partnered with Chapman and Company, a regional consulting firm to create the report. An algorithm was created with the intent of identifying…
In the midst of a six-week excursion into the Des Moines startup community a group of young African business leaders spent their lunch on Wednesday at the Gravitate co-working office space in downtown Des Moines.
This program comes from President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative known as the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. For…
Nathan T. Wright is an illustrator and artist based in Des Moines. He is a reoccuring contributor to Clay & Milk.
Find out more about him in his Q&A here.
His previous cartoons:
June 16, 2017
May 31, 2017
Agit Pai, Chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released information on what three major initiatives the Commission is working on.
The Commission is focused on a roll-out of 5G. Pai says that, “5G will require companies to deploy hundreds of thousands of small cells (operating at lower power), and many more miles of fiber…
Two software companies in the craft beer market announced a merger Wednesday.
Software companies Fermented Labs and BrewOps are merging, according to a news release.
Fermented Labs is the creator of BREWD – a Des Moines based software provider to the craft beer industry; BrewOps is a software company for brewery inventory and production management.
According to the release, Dave Jensen…