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Thanks to the Thinc Iowa community for helping raise the bar
Some observers of college sports will tell you that athletes improve the most between their freshman and sophomore year. While I’m no coach, I believe that theory has to do with the idea that the initial year sets your baseline. After seeing how your particular skills and ability fit into the new environment, you take…
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Jeremie Miller: Tech entrepreneur sprouts from Iowa farm roots
Jeremie Miller can trace the roots of his startup, Singly, back to a conversation in an Iowa farm field in 2010. He stood in that field — on the farm in Dubuque County where the movie Field of Dreams was filmed — talking with one of his eventual Singly co-founders about the untapped potential in…
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Brad Feld: “It’s a 20-year journey”
Brad Feld believes that a thriving startup community can exist anywhere in the world. “There’s a startup revolution going on in our society right now, and I think everyone in this room is a part of it,” Feld said at Thinc Iowa 2012 today. Feld, the a co-founder of venture capital firm Foundry Group and…
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Ryan Graves: It starts with hustle
Ryan Graves knows and values hustle. His path to become a vice president at Uber began with a Twitter reply to the startup’s co-founder. His arrival at Thinc Iowa on Wednesday, he said, marked the end of his first vacation in four years. As the final speaker of the second-year event, Graves shared personal stories…
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Idan Cohen: What we should expect from TV
“People love TV,” said Idan Cohen, co-founder of Boxee, as he kicked off his talk at Thinc Iowa 2012 this afternoon at The Temple for Performing Arts. Providing a cheaper and more user-friendly and integrated option for watching television is Cohen’s mission and the reason he founded Boxee, a freeware media player software platform. “We…
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Tara Hunt: You can’t control luck, but you can certainly work on the rest
Author, mom, and startup founder Tara Hunt took the stage at The Temple for Performing Arts with a little hesitation. Even with experience working with over 30 startups, she began her talk at Thinc Iowa 2012 by admitting she felt less than enthused about the story she was going to tell. That story chronicled the…
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Thinc Iowa invites everyone to closing party at 8 tonight
Wrap up Thinc Iowa 2012 at 8 tonight with the closing party presented by Iowa’s Creative Corridor. Open to both badge holders and the general public, the party is at West End Architectural Salvage. This 50,000-square-foot warehouse not only provides a place for guests to connect, but also brings light to a local entrepreneur, Don…
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Neal Sales-Griffin: Solving problems, making things and having fun
Something is brewing in Chicago, and Neal Sales-Griffin is at the center of it. Sales-Griffin is from the South Side of Chicago and describes his home as a magical city and the Midwest as a magical part of the country. He is responsible for bringing people from all around the world to Chicago to learn…
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Antonio Neves: “Create your own luck”
Antonio Neves, the founder of THINQACTION, kicked off day two of Thinc Iowa 2012 this morning at The Temple for Performing Arts by challenging conference-goers to create their own luck. “Who could use some luck?” he asked attendees. “Would you bet on you, accomplishing what you say is most important in your life?” A self-described…
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Special thanks to these friends of Thinc Iowa 2012
This group of Thinc Iowa 2012 sponsors are those that put their time and services into helping us produce the event. The list starts with the most visible partners: Performance Marketing and Shift. They’re the ones who designed the awesome “chalk board” identity for the conference, built the website and created all the signage in…
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