A cultural record of Iowa's technology

A cultural record of Iowa's technology

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The Adversity Paradox of Locked Doors
How Dawn Ainger's fierce sense of agency led to this generational success story
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The Anvil that Forged A Future
This final installment digs into one of our community's foundational investments in creating an entrepreneurial ecosystem, supporting it financially…
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Accelerating Entrepreneurship - II
The story of the New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative (NewBoCo), an entrepreneurial community that never stops reinventing and reinvesting within and…
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Accelerating Entrepreneurship - Part I
How the Des Moines-based Global Insurance Accelerator cemented a new paradigm for accelerators and began a decade of innovations in the highly…
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Gratitude for the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
This Thanksgiving, I am simply grateful for the continued growth and nurturing of Iowa's entrepreneurial ecosystem in hands of many volunteers and…
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From Bricks & Mortar to Clicks & Mentor
Frank Russell’s journey from in-person training to GeoLearning’s $100M exit reveals how patient capital, design innovation, and Iowa’s tech diaspora…
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Rugged by Design
When rugged company culture embeds itself into its products and employees and builds a sustainable company. This is another picks and shovels story…
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A cultural record of Iowa's technology
A cultural record of Iowa's technology
This is a record of Iowa's technology companies and the people who built them. I'll find the stories and talk to the people 1:1 and bring you what they did, why they did it, and how they see the community's progression since (used to say 80s) the 1960s
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Dispatches from the Heartland
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Deep Midwest: Politics and Culture
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Robert Leonard
Iowa Writers Collaborative Roundup
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Julie Gammack

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