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  • After pitching at SXSW, John Jackovin shares tips for first-time attendees

    Last week Bawte co-founder and CEO John Jackovin traveled to Austin for South by Southwest Interactive, but before he even set foot in the Lone Star State, Jackovin was looking for opportunities to share his startup with a larger audience. “This was my first SXSW so I went in pretty blind,” he said. “I used…

  • Bawte nabs second place in ReleaseIT at SXSW pitch competition

    Des Moines startup Bawte gained some national recognition Friday when co-founder John Jackovin took second place in the ReleaseIT at SXSW pitch competition. “It’s always a good idea to pitch any time you can,” Jackovin told the Des Moines Register. “Being at SXSW, it makes it an even better idea. While I would have loved to have won it, getting second…

  • Bawte relaunches to focus on customer service, experience

    For nearly two years, co-founder and CEO John Jackovin has been working on Bawte, a company that launched its new iOS app and web platform Wednesday …

  • Co-founders sell Big Blue Window, focus efforts fully on Bawte

    Since 2004, Big Blue Window, an ecommerce retailer for window grilles, has been a project of John Jackovin and his long-time business partner, Tom Love. That is, until recently when the pair sold the company to focus their efforts fully on Bawte, another company Jackovin and Love co-founded …

  • You can’t win if you don’t play

    If you are like me when you read something or talk to someone you immediately add a phrase or word to a song, title, proper noun or really anything. Things pop into my head that are loosely correlated to what I am reading or hearing. For example when I first met Ben Milne and he…

  • Pitching at CES: Bawte co-founder shares lessons from Vegas visit

    The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is the largest gathering of technology suppliers, buyers and techno-nerds possibly in the world. I attended CES for three full days in hopes of getting new leads for my startup, Bawte. Bawte is a consumer-facing app that allows our users to tag the products they buy to create a…

  • Startups strut stuff in first-year showcase at 80/35 Music Festival

    The inaugural year of Start-Up Central at 80/35 was modest — a single tent, promising information and a bit of shade on a sweltering day — but festival officials and startup founders alike see potential to build on the relationship between technology and music. “We actually share quite a bit in that we need to…

  • Kum & Go connects with Bawte for summer promotion

    Bawte, a social media application for sharing purchases, is getting some major marketing fuel this summer through a promotion run by Kum & Go, the nation’s fifth largest privately held, company-operated convenience store chain. Through the end of August, the West Des Moines-based chain is giving away a gift card weekly to someone who shares…

  • Q&A: John Jackovin goes full-time with bootstrapped Bawte

    About 15 minutes after coming up with the idea for Bawte, John Jackovin said he knew he’d one day be working on it full-time. That day came on Friday, after he left his position with Bettrlife, another Des Moines startup, to work on Bawte 100 percent. Jackovin, 38, co-founded Bawte with the aim of harnessing…

  • Bawte aims to bridge gap between consumers and businesses

    A few years ago, John Jackovin’s 9-year-old daughter received a significant gift — a Yamaha keyboard. It was an exciting moment for the family, and Jackovin wanted to share it with the world. Jackovin (left), who had been working in technology for nearly 10 years, quickly discarded the product registration card that came with the…