April 8, 2014

  • Couple launches site for art educators after struggling to find resources

    In a town like Osage, Iowa—with a population of just more than 3,600—you wouldn’t expect to find one of the most widely used resources for art educators …

  • Inaugural conference adds tech component to Mission Creek Festival

    On Saturday morning, more than 50 entrepreneurs, students and members of the community gathered in the University of Iowa’s Pappajohn Business Building for a common purpose—the inaugural Mission Creek Tech + Innovation conference. The one-day conference featured local and national speakers, including David Gould of the Downtown Project in Las Vegas, Chad Whitacre of Gittip,…

  • Pulse of the Prairie: Our inaugural early-stage investment report

    In the middle of the country, our nascent startup community is building muscle and growing taller. It’s taken a few years to put on the healthy fat of community awareness, seed funding and mentorship to get that muscle, but people on the coasts are starting to see us over the corn stalks. We all know…