Dustin Hemesath

  • What’s it like to pitch Shark Tank producers? Iowa entrepreneurs share

    Last week ABC reality show “Shark Tank” hosted an open casting call in Des Moines and more than 100 entrepreneurs and inventors turned out for an opportunity to swim with the sharks. It’s still too soon to say if any of the companies that pitched last Monday will make it on to the show’s taping.…

  • Des Moines golf app GolfRz rewards users for what they already do

    When Dustin Hemesath and his wife got married in 2007, they decided to help celebrate her father’s 60th birthday on RAGBRAI in lieu of a honeymoon. There was just one problem. “I hate biking,” Hemesath told Silicon Prairie News. “I hate it. So riding RAGBRAI wasn’t necessarily on the top of my list.” …