Rob Merritt, Author at NewBoCo

Feltes One Way wins Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids pitch competition

April 20, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Media Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Cedar Rapids, IA, April 20, 2017 — On April 12 NewBoCo held the Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids chapter pitch competition. Feltes One Way, a company focused on creating anti-rollback technology for manual wheelchairs, won the

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NewBoCo Workiversary: Keith Dahlby

April 14, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]On April 11, our Software Architect & DeltaV Code School Instructor Keith Dahlby celebrated one year with NewBoCo. Dahlby joined the nonprofit on April 11, 2016. Over the last year, he has completed contract work through NewBoCo’s dev team “NewBoCode”, served as our Slack Cop, architected the structure of

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NewBoCo Workiversary: Jessica Bertling

April 13, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]On April 7, our UI/UX Developer & DeltaV Code School Instructor Jessica Bertling celebrated one year with NewBoCo. Bertling joined the nonprofit on April 7, 2016. Over the last year, she has completed contract work through NewBoCo’s dev team “NewBoCode”, architected the design of the new NewBoCo website,

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NewBoCo Workiversary: Frank Camp

April 12, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]On April 5, our General Counsel Frank Camp celebrated one year with NewBoCo. Camp joined the nonprofit on April 5, 2016. Over the last year, he has led NewBoCo’s legal work, including but not limited to filing trademarks, investment deals, contracts, and more. When Frank joined the team, there were

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Girls code camp returns for second year

April 7, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Media Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Girls code camp returns for second year GirlsCode++ is a day-long camp to teach girls how to code April 6, 2017, Cedar Rapids, IA – NewBoCo’s girls code camp, GirlsCode++, returns for a second year

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Guest Blog: Entrepreneurs: Student Debt Doesn’t Need To Hold You Back

March 31, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Guest blogger: Nate Matherson It seems like we’re always hearing stories about young entrepreneurs launching startups or starting their own small businesses, but are young people really starting more businesses now than they were ten or twenty years ago? According to the Kaufmann Foundation, they’re not. In

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Six locations to host InnovateHER local competitions in Iowa

March 30, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 March 30, 2017, Cedar Rapids, IA – Six locations in Iowa will host local competitions for the Small Business Administration InnovateHER Challenge. “We’re excited to bring InnovateHER back to Cedar Rapids and around the state of

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Two teams enter the Iowa Startup Accelerator 2017 Spring Batch

March 20, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Contact: Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing Email: jessalyn@newbo.co Phone: 319.382.5128 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, March 20, 2017 – Iowa Startup Accelerator accepted two companies into the spring batch of its 2017 cohort, BluSolar and Global Healthcare Integrators (GHI). These teams are the first batch to participate in

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Warby Parker Co-CEO to Keynote EntreFEST

March 16, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]MEDIA CONTACTS: Melissa McCarville, Economic Alliance 319.730.1415 (direct & cell) mmccarville@cedarrapids.org Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo jessalyn@newbo.co Warby Parker Co-CEO to Keynote EntreFEST Leader of Most Innovative Company in the World and other Nationally Recognized Speakers Announced for the May 4-5 Conference CEDAR RAPIDS, March 16, 2017 – Neil

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When and how to kill your company

March 14, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Another rant from the Grumpy Old Company Lawyer. In case no one’s said it to you before, it’s a fact of life for entrepreneurs and early-stage investors: Not all startups succeed. By definition, early-stage investors have to be “big boys and girls.” So what happens when,

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