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
[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]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.
[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
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
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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]There are many high-quality accelerator programs in the U.S. And there’s some that do almost nothing for the startups they work with. How do you know if an accelerator program is working? From our perspective, there are a number of metrics we focus on. Some of these
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[vc_row padding_top=”0px” padding_bottom=”0px”][vc_column fade_animation_offset=”45px”][text_output]This year’s cohort ended with an amazing Launch Day celebration with 900 people in attendance and 300 more via streaming. But what happens next for these teams? We’ve created several options to better support 2015 and 2014 portfolio companies, and some of them are also available to
