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NewBoCo Workiversary: Keith Dahlby

Rob Merritt 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 internal and external systems, and taught future developers how to

A NewBoCo Studios software developer works on a project at their computer

NewBoCo Workiversary: Jessica Bertling

Rob Merritt 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, and taught future developers how to code with DeltaV. When

NewBoCo Workiversary: Frank Camp

Rob Merritt 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 six staff members. Now, NewBoCo is a team of 18

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

Rob Merritt 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 a recent report, they found that the large student loans

Members of Girls With Ideas, an ISA portfolio team, look at a laptop.

Startup Cybersecurity Strategy

Molly Monk March 30, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Aaron Warner, a mentor for the Iowa Startup Accelerator and CEO and Lead Security Strategist at ProCircular, Inc. You can view the original post here. [/text_output][text_output]In the world of startups, cybersecurity is often an afterthought. Not because budding entrepreneurs haven’t heard the horror stories, but it seldom ranks highly

When and how to kill your company

Rob Merritt 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, despite heroic efforts at life support, you have to call

NewBoCo Workiversary: Kristine Sorensen

Rob Merritt February 22, 2017

[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px” width=”1/1″][text_output]On February 22, our Director of K-12 Education Kristine Sorensen celebrated one year with NewBoCo. Sorensen joined the nonprofit on February 22, 2016. Over the last year, she has led NewBoCo’s K-12 STEAM education initiative, Imagination Iowa, including the Summer Challenge camps. Now NewBoCo is a team of 17 and growing. Coworkers shared their favorite memories