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Des Moines community builder Tej Dhawan featured by Business Record
StartupCity Des Moines co-founder Tej Dhawan didn’t set out to be recognized as a community leader. But over the last few years, Dhawan has become one of central Iowa’s most well-known startup advocates….
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Iowa college’s Startup Semester gets students “outside of the building”
With the help of a group of dedicated professional mentors and educators, 15 students will continue their entrepreneurship studies at Central College through a new “Startup Semester.” The private college, located about an hour southeast of Des Moines, has offered courses in entrepreneurship for a few years now, but this semester the professors and students…
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Kauffman paper details new Startup America model, highlights Iowa
“If (Iowa) can do it, we can all do it,” Startup America Partnership CEO Scott Case says in a white paper released Thursday that examines the Startup American Partnership at the 18-month mark. The Kansas City, Mo.-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, which provided funding for the Partnership’s launch in January 2011, published the paper, “The…
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As one-year mark nears, StartupCity co-founders share progress, goals
One year ago, Christian Renaud and Tej Dhawan were still pitching their plans for a tech startup incubator in downtown Des Moines. With stops at five public and private entities, including the Corporation for Economic Development, the City of Des Moines and the Greater Des Moines Partnership, the two secured $750,000 to launch StartupCity Des…
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Incubator with StartupCity Des Moines ties comes to northwest Iowa
Leann Jacobsen hopes establishing StartupCity Spencer, an incubator using the same name and approach of a Des Moines incubator, can put the northwest Iowa town of less than 12,000 people on the entrepreneurial map. “With the talented people that reside here …
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Give careful consideration to employee benefits
(Guest post by Tej Dhawan.) Launching a startup is fraught with many questions, least of which has to do with employee benefits. Perhaps, it is because no one is making money yet. As with many other decisions the founders make, however, benefits decisions are precedent setting and should be considered carefully. You are creating a…
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Aiming to teach kids code, CoderDojo returns Saturday to Des Moines
Plenty of parents want their kids to grow up to be doctors and lawyers, but what about programmers and developers? CoderDojo Des Moines is ready to train the next generation of techies, from middle school on up. CoderDojo started in Ireland and is popular in Europe, but Des Moines and Iowa City are among the…
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BIZ Insights: Tej Dhawan discusses product development (Video)
Business Innovation Zone in Des Moines, led by Mike Colwell, holds an educational luncheon for entrepreneurs in Central Iowa. Titled “Business Insights and Networking Luncheon Series,” each event features a speaker from the Des Moines community with either expertise or thought leadership in an area that’s applicable to people working on building high growth and…