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 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 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 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 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 […]
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 […]
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 & […]
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 […]
This Week Dana Rae poses with some holiday-inspired crafting materials Join us for engaging conversation between Capital Access Manager for Kiva Iowa, Kaitlin Byers and entrepreneur and recently-funded borrower, Dana Rae of DanaRae-llc! DanaRae-llc provides a crafting experience and stress-free workshop environment where people can go to be crafty and where, as Dana says, "coloring […]
This Week In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week and in partnership with ISA Ventures, join us for a discussion of various funding sources available for Iowa startup companies. The discussion will be led by Eric Engelmann, ISA Ventures General Partner. In addition to being the primary driver behind ISA Ventures, Engelmann has also started several […]
