Chris Rouw

  • How two Iowa companies use internal hackathons to give back

    Over the years, companies like Google and Facebook have become infamous for their internal hackathons with mass amounts of takeout food, innovative solutions and hacking into the wee hours. But for two Iowa companies, hosting company-wide hackathons has become a way to give back to their communities…

  • NU Squared brings vision therapy to tablets

    Nadira Shadeed and Joe Rouw are a husband-wife team of optometrists who run a vision therapy-exclusive practice in Georgia. When the two discovered no software on the market suited their unique needs, they decided to build their own. They teamed up with Far Reach, a Cedar Falls-based web design company where Joe’s brother Chris Rouw…