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NewBoCo Workiversary: Jessalyn Holdcraft

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]On May 26, our Director of Marketing Jessalyn Holdcraft celebrated one year with NewBoCo. Holdcraft joined the nonprofit as the Marketing & Communications Coordinator for Iowa Startup Accelerator on May 26, 2015, after she graduated from Simpson College. She turned the dynamic duo of Eric Engelmann and

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The Spring of 7 Summits

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/2″][text_output] An industry expert gives feedback during a presentation at the Education Innovation Summit. [/text_output][blockquote cite=”” id=”” class=”” style=””]”I walked away with far more reliable feedback, resources, and ideas than at a 1 Million Cups or InnovateHER because everyone there was in my

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NewBoCo Workiversary: David Tominsky

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]On May 20, our Iowa Startup Accelerator Managing Director David Tominsky celebrated two years with NewBoCo. Tominsky joined the nonprofit as the Program Manager for Iowa Startup Accelerator on May 20, 2014. At the time he was the first official hire for the organization. Eric Engelmann, co-founder and Executive

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Fees, Reports, and Records, OH MY!

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output] FEES, REPORTS AND RECORDS, OH, MY! 5 things a startup should cross off its “to do” list each year Startups seeking to interest various types of funding sources are usually required to establish a formal entity to continue to grow and expand their funding possibilities. These

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NewBoCo Honored for the BIG Gift at the BIGGYs

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output] NewBoCo Honored for the BIG Gift at the BIGGYs Good evening! My name is George Elossais, and I’m a graduating second-year student at Iowa BIG. My peers and I work out of the Vault Coworking & Collaboration Space, tackling real initiatives with real community partners. My experience in

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Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids Winner, Wrapping Up the Innovation Summit Series

Media Contact Jessalyn Holdcraft, NewBoCo Director of Marketing jessalyn@newbo.co Cedar Rapids, IA, May 9, 2016 — Last Thursday, Iowa Startup Accelerator powered by NewBoCo launched the Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids chapter with a pitch competition and Aging Innovation Summit sponsored by Physicians’ Clinic of Iowa. iTR Diagnostics, a company focused on testing for

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Education Innovation Summit

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]Our seventh and final Innovation Summit this Spring is Friday, May 13. The event brings together education-related startups, investors, corporate leaders in standardized testing and publishing and textbooks, and industry experts from secondary and higher education. The summit features startup pitches, a reverse pitch from corporate innovators,

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Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids Chapter Launch and Startup Pitch Event

Media Contact Jessalyn Holdcraft, Director of Marketing jessalyn@newbo.co Cedar Rapids, IA, April 28, 2016 Aging2.0 Cedar Rapids Chapter Launch and Startup Pitch Event Cedar Rapids is home to the newest chapter of Aging 2.0, a global organization focused on accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults around the world.

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Manufacturing Innovation Summit

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]We’re excited. Our second innovation summit is Friday, March 25. Manufacturing and engineering startups and industry experts will come together for a day of collisions between the seasoned and the startups. The first innovation summit was an experiment and the results proved successful. Thirty industry experts heard

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