Whiskey Friday: Sacred Cow Tavern

BoMac's 219 16th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Join us every Friday at 4 PM at a local bar/restaurant from a rotating series to celebrate the small and big successes of the week, unwind, and build relationships with our fellow community members! Today's Whiskey Friday is meeting at Sacred Cow Tavern! Of Sacred Cow Tavern, The Gazette's Elijah Decious writes: Soups, salads, sandwiches […]

1 Million Cups: Victory Business Consulting

The Olympic South Side Theater 1202 3rd St SE #200, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

This Week When a manager does know how to do the work but focuses on tasks and statistics and not the people, it creates poor leadership. Though this isn’t intentional, this mindset creates bosses and managers, not leaders. The solution is to teach, coach, mentor, inspire, and motivate people on becoming better leaders. Inspiring, process […]

Event Series NewBo Open Coffee

NewBo Open Coffee

NewBo City Market 1100 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

What is NewBo Open Coffee? NewBo Open Coffee meets on the 2nd and 4th Friday every month. No agenda, just good coffee and engaging conversations. It's designed to be a community conversation open to everyone. The topics of discussion are decided by the people that attend. Seriously, no agenda just great coffee and conversation.   […]

1 Million Cups: We Sparkle Co

The Olympic South Side Theater 1202 3rd St SE #200, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

This Week We Sparkle Co. is this week's guest! We Sparkle Co. helps solopreneurs, sidepreneurs, and small business owners save time + increase revenues via a suite of software tools that makes it easy to sell their products/services, schedule meetings, and leverage AI to answer frequently asked questions.   Program schedule 8:30-9:00 - Coffee & […]

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Event Series Whiskey Friday

Whiskey Friday: Tornado’s

Tornado's Pub and Grub 1600 3rd St SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Join us every Friday at 4 PM at a local bar/restaurant from a rotating series to celebrate the small and big successes of the week, unwind, and build relationships with our fellow community members! This week's celebration is at Tornado's in NewBo! Tornado's is the kind of casual, unassuming neighborhood bar that really makes you […]

1 Million Cups: Founder Fireside with Nate Kalkwarf

The Olympic South Side Theater 1202 3rd St SE #200, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

This Week Hear from Nate Kalkwarf, cofounder and COO of Restoration Counseling and Community Services, and Eric Engelmann, General Partner of ISA Ventures! They talk about knowing your numbers, the metrics and math to focus on when scaling a business. Restoration Counseling and Community Services (RCCS) is "dedicated to providing proven community-based programming for individuals […]

CoderDojo

The Geonetric Building 415 12th Ave SE, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

Engineering, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship for Kids! CoderDojo is a free K–5 STEM program under NewBoCo K–12 Education that encourages creativity, fosters entrepreneurship, and helps kids learn to code. Each week, we assemble different "stations" where kids can experience different STEM activities and learn about subjects like physics, engineering, computer science, circuitry, automation, and much more—all […]

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1 Million Cups: Little Miss Finance

The Olympic South Side Theater 1202 3rd St SE #200, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

This Week Join us to hear from Little Miss Finance! Little Miss Finance (LMF) is a financial education company with a mission to help individuals build wealth by translating the confusing and overwhelming world of personal finance. While working in corporate America, Malia Gudenkauf started LMF as a blog in 2019 to share with others […]

1 Million Cups: Introduction to Cap Tables

The Olympic South Side Theater 1202 3rd St SE #200, Cedar Rapids, IA, United States

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. […]

Future City Essay Judging

Virtual

Students design a futuristic city with innovative solutions to some of today’s most pressing issues. 1 of the 4 pillars of this important task is the city essay. (The other 3 pillars are the city model, the group presentation, and the live question and answer.) The essay is the first to be delivered and sets […]