This Week Join us for a special workshop lead by ISA Ventures General Partner Eric Engelmann. Eric will be discussing capitalization tables — cap tables, for short — specifically, understanding how ownership changes with investors. Bringing on cofounders or investors in a business is a momentous decision. The result of those decisions can be significant. […]
This Week We are excited to welcome Gabrielle Williams of Meal Prep Queen to 1MC Cedar Rapids! Gabrielle is a funded Kiva borrower who runs a meal preparation business in Iowa City. Meal Prep Queen offers healthy and affordable pre-prepared meals for weekly pick-up, as well as nutrition and fitness coaching! Gabrielle grew up in […]
This Week Today, join us and the 35(!!) members of Cedar Rapids Metro Economic Alliance’s Leadership for Five Seasons Youth Program. These 35 high school students are participating in the Corridor's premier leadership program. Through 8 days of in-depth learning from August through March, the program has introduced these select students to "community needs, opportunities, […]
This Week This Wednesday, we'll hear from Eric West of Music League! Music League is a social platform wrapped around a game that changes how people discover, and rediscover, great music. It connects people to old (and new) friends while re-introducing them to their favorite (and soon-to-be favorite) brands & artists. Music League's current business […]
This Week This Wednesday, we'll hear from Eric West of Music League! Music League is a social platform wrapped around a game that changes how people discover, and rediscover, great music. It connects people to old (and new) friends while re-introducing them to their favorite (and soon-to-be favorite) brands & artists. Music League's current business […]
This Week Eric Engelmann, ISAV's General Partner, and Krista Martin, a Startup Growth Advisor, will talk about the challenges and opportunities in early stage companies and how they change over time. Examples include how generating your very first sales or building a product for your first few customers changes as the company grows, or how […]
This Week Join us to hear about The Iowa Podcast! The Iowa Podcast is an interview-style format, featuring weekly 30-minute discussions with Iowans you want to hear from. They discuss current events and things that impact you TODAY. They also discuss events, businesses, culture, news, and, yeah, they even wade into politics, albeit from the […]
This Week Join us to hear from Green Mason! Green Mason is a ready-to-eat mason jar salad company that provides convenient healthy eating to the residents of Des Moines. Their mission is "to help busy people feel better." They offer 7 variations of 32-ounce salads, including a new line of Mini Mason 16-ounce salads for […]
This Week This week, we'll hear from Comic Sandwiches! Grayson Burgess started Comic Sandwiches started in 2015 with their first product: frames to hold Comic books—hence the name. After that, the company expanded into Captain America Shields, managing its retail business mainly on Etsy. Once Comic Sandwiches refined the design of the shield, it started […]
This Week Hear from Jeff Grusy of Vertex Partners, which works with research-based startups to identify federal funding sources. Mr Grusy, with Eric Engelmann, ISAV's General Partner, will discuss how the process works and share examples of technologies that have been developed through collaboration with and funding from the federal government. Program schedule 8:30 […]
This Week Kevin Bradley of ISA Ventures (formerly a commercial banker at Blackhawk Bank & Trust) will interview Spencer Goettsch of F&M Bank to discuss the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), and discuss best practices for business owners to manage risk. We'll talk about FDIC insurance, CDARS, and Insured Cash Sweeps and how […]
