Tom Love

  • 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 …

  • 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…