In 2008, David Tominsky was working in downtown Cedar Rapids, just blocks away from the Cedar River. That June, monumental river levels stopped everyone in their tracks. “The building that I worked out of – the basement was completely filled, and the water came up ten or eleven feet onto…
During a tour of a workforce training program in Waukee, presidential adviser Ivanka Trump said the administration remains committed to infrastructure improvements, including workforce development and wider rural access to broadband service. Those are three top priorities of many Iowa business groups and politicians. Trump, daughter of President Donald Trump,…
1 Million Cups organizer Ben McDougal interviews Gov. Kim Reynolds during her first appearance at the weekly Des Moines gathering. Photo by Kate Hayden For the first fifteen to twenty minutes, Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds stood at the lecturn addressing a room of more than 50 during Wednesday’s 1 Million…
The Iowa City Area Chamber of Commerce is now accepting Bitcoin payments for membership dues. Chamber President Kim Casko made the surprise announcement on Tuesday morning at Iowa City’s TechBrew meeting, a monthly event hosted by the Technology Association of Iowa. The chamber accepted its first Bitcoin payment on Friday,…
Finding ways to attract high school students to a trades career is a tough nut to crack for industry advocates. At a student careers fair in Boone on Tuesday, Associated Builders and Contractors of Iowa (ABC for short) showcased a new piece of the toolkit: a virtual reality-enabled demonstration trailer….
On International Women’s Day, a sobering stat: Just 0.2 percent of all venture capital dollars are invested in startups led by women of color, reports Inc.com. There are some startup founders trying to change the way business is done. Last year, 30 startups pooled together to establish the 22X Fund, which…
Global networking group Tech Ladies is hosting a speed networking night on April 11, sponsored by Dwolla. From 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Dwolla headquarters, participants will meet fellow Tech Ladies and chat for three to five minutes each. To register, visit the event page.
If you’re building a startup ecosystem, you’re prepared to accept that not every idea will make it in the business world. Might as well celebrate. That’s the idea behind the new Startup Funerals in Iowa City, hosted by the Iowa City Area Development Group, reports the Corridor Business Journal. ICAD hosted…
Sixty-two nominees in 14 categories were announced today as finalists for the 2018 Prometheus Awards, presented by LWBJ. The Technology Association of Iowa (TAI) said nominees included five Iowa communities, company leaders, and local or global companies in a range of industries, including technology, agriculture, financial services, manufacturing and health…
What do you get when a chemist pokes his head into a physicist’s Iowa laboratory? Something very, very small. Two Central Iowa professors and a college-based venture capital incubator are behind the nanotechnology introduced in ExpresSeed, a new, portable genetic detection system. Developed by Aaron Santos and Derek Lyons at Simpson College, the…
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