September 9, 2013

  • Cedar Rapids’ Vault launches “100” project to track community’s growth

    Earlier this summer, Cedar Rapids-based Vault Coworking and Collaboration Space launched the Vault 100 project. The mission is simple: Over the next year, Vault hopes to connect 100 entrepreneurs, produce 100 events and gain 100 members—while working toward launching 100 startups over the next few years. “We decided to launch the Vault 100 to help…

  • Adventur.es’ Brent Beshore finds success, then builds community

    On a Friday afternoon, Brent Beshore decides to play a game of pingpong because, well, he likes to play pingpong. This isn’t your average game of table tennis, however, because Beshore is technically at work—a term he would probably avoid using to describe his “job,” which isn’t exactly the right word for it either. Eight…

  • Startup Weekend Lincoln winner helps fitness instructors find subs

    Exercise My Schedule, “a better way to manage group fitness scheduling,” emerged from a field of six as the winner of Startup Weekend Lincoln. A marketing consultant by day and fitness instructor by night, Ali Schwanke came up with the idea for Exercise My Schedule. In her pitch Sunday night, Schwanke explained that her email…