[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]After Labor Day weekend, this week began with a Founder Fireside with Brad Dwyer, CEO of Hatchlings, a Facebook integrated gaming company. Brad shared insight on viral loops, investing, and the startup ecosystem in Iowa. AssetRover and Hang kicked off a month of presentations by the
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]There are plethora of events for the Creative Corridor’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. We chose our top 5 can’t miss events for the fall.[/text_output][gap size=”1.313em” id=”” class=”” style=””][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”2/3″][text_output] Power Ladies Lunch Wednesday, September 14, from 11:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at Cedar Ridge Winery &
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]This week, the ISA 2016 cohort focused on currency testing – finding out if customers will pay for the solution teams created to solve their problems. To help with this, the week began with a workshop on sales strategy led by Ben Anderson, Trace Steffen, and
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Outside investment isn’t the only path to startup success. Many of Iowa’s best known startup success stories began by bootstrapping. ISA Mentor-in-Residence Cammie Greif and the other co-founders of TaxACT started out in February 1998 on the second floor of an old mortuary with coffins in
Media Contacts Melissa McCarville, Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance Communications Manager 319.730.1415 (direct & cell) mmccarville@cedarrapids.org Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing jessalyn@newbo.co Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance and NewBoCo Announce New Partnership NewBoCo to Co-Produce EntreFEST, Largest Regional Entrepreneurship Conference Cedar Rapids, Iowa, August 18, 2016 – Today, the Cedar
Media Contact Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing jessalyn@newbo.co Cedar Rapids, Iowa, August 1, 2016 – The six teams for the ISA 2016 Cohort represent the results of NewBoCo’s efforts to accelerate world-changing ideas, from Iowa: all of the startups are from Iowa. This crop is the result of many of the
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]Locked in an office on calls from dawn until dusk for 25 days, Iowa Startup Accelerator Managing Director David Tominsky worked to whittle down 200 applicants to the top startups to put in front of investors. Thousands of emails, hundreds of hours on the phone, and one
Media Contact Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing jessalyn@newbo.co Cedar Rapids, Iowa, June 21, 2016, — EntreFEST is coming back in 2017 and has a new home at the New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative. The largest entrepreneurship and innovation conference in Iowa will return May 4-5, 2017, in Iowa City after
