The ISA 2016 Cohort is only a few days away from finishing their first month of the program. As the first month comes to a close, the cohort prepares to shift their focus from finding early adopters to sales strategy, financial models, and marketing. The next month will have workshops,
As the days till Launch Day decrease, the energy in the ISA 2016 Cohort keeps increasing. Weeks 2 and 3 introduced new elements to the cohort that will be part of their regular cadence including Founder Firesides, Workshop Wednesdays, and Sprint Demo Days. Each week, starting in Week 2, the Cohort is
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
With the countdown clock ticking down the seconds until Launch Day, the ISA 2016 Cohort is acutely aware of just how fast the 90 days fly. The first week of the ISA was filled with intense training sessions to teach teams how to maximize the brief time. Taking lessons learned
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
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 investor meeting later,
NewBoCo and Iowa Startup Accelerator are my first nonprofit adventure. Having founded Geonetric in 1999, I remember the thrill of building something new and the euphoria of finding traction and things that work. And then, the tug of the thing taking off as it grows and holding it together as
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
An industry expert gives feedback during a presentation at the Education Innovation Summit. “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 industry.”NewBoCo Director of Programs David Tominsky gives HowFactory CEO Trace Steffen a
