Using the concept of a business incubator, the Kitchen Council held its launch party Tuesday night in Council Bluffs as the first food startup incubator in the region.
The Kitchen Council is a shared commercial kitchen for entrepreneurs to get their food business off the ground. There are various monthly membership tiers based on the business need,…
So, you want to be a startup founder?
It’s going to take a great idea and a lot of hustle to get to where you want to be and you’re ready to put in the sweat equity. In fact, you’re ready to get started now building your business and brand.
Wait one second!…
As a freshman at Iowa State University, that's when Vanessa McNeal realized there were other survivors of sexual child abuse.
It was during a human sexuality class, when the professor said that she was a victim of sexual child abuse and put words to what Vanessa experienced as a child.
Fast forward to 2018 and it's McNeal…
On Thursday Des Moines-based Insurtech startup Pablow announced a partnership that will make their product available in the United States.
Pablow currently offers a car rental comparison website and insurance site in Australia and New Zealand. And with the partnership announced Thursday in a news release, they will launch the same model in the United States.
The availability…
After being created in 2011 the Iowa Innovation Fund Tax credit sat for two years before it was used.
But in 2013, Des Moines-based Next Level Ventures became the first fund to be certified as an “Innovation Fund”. Five years later, it is the only certified fund.
And it wouldn’t exist without the…
After years of debate, the World Health Organization is finally recognizing video game addiction as a disease.You can argue for days about the semantics of addiction versus obsession. Unlike substance addiction, video game addiction doesn’t cause physical withdrawal. And “over-gaming” is often a symptom of another mental health issue.
But as usual, the semantics hardly matter.…
The Facebook Altoona Data Center is providing over $136,000 in Community Action Grants to 11 community organizations to increase STEM education and technology initiatives in the area.
On Wednesday, a post on the Altoona Data Center Facebook page announced the news; 11 organizations received $136,970 in grant funding for 2018.
The 2018 recipients were:
Altoona Area Historical Society – $5,000
Altoona…
No matter where Anita Tarpeh is she's able to work.
Braiding hair is something she's been doing since she was a little girl growing up Liberia. But because of a civil war in 2004, Anita found herself in a refugee camp where she would take advantage of a visa program to come to the United States—but…
Starting in February the Des Moines chapter of Green Iowa AmeriCorps is hosting a four-session Women in STEM book club at Smokey Row Coffee in Des Moines.
Green Iowa focuses on education and outreach to encourage conservation and sustainability. Green Iowa AmeriCorps began in 2009 serving Black Hawk and Linn counties with site offices in…
For being a side project, Magic Sudoku is receiving a lot of recognition.
Last September, Brad Dwyer went through a three-week crash course in augmented reality app development, which resulted in Magic Sudoku, a mobile app that solves Sudoku puzzles using the new augmented reality features on the iPhone.
On Monday, Magic Sudoku won the Golden Kitty Award…
A Des Moines physician needed a hobby that he could do from the comfort of his living room but still be creative.
So he learned to develop mobile apps.
Aaron From—a cardiologist at Mercy Medical Center in Des Moines—says he's been developing apps for the last five years and has nearly 150,000 downloads on his 80 apps. His…
The Cedar Rapids-based nonprofit organization NewBoCo announced Wednesday that it will launch an "Intrapreneur Academy" and is looking for five to eight companies to participate in the year-long training designed to teach companies four competencies of innovative organizations.
According to a new release Wednesday, NewBoCo staff will work with companies on developing an innovative culture, developing…