✨ Startup Weekend Iowa City mentor spotlight ✨ Alex Taylor is the Managing Director for the Iowa Startup Accelerator where he helps a portfolio of startup businesses accelerate their growth, profitability, and success. bit.ly/SWIC2021

✨Startup Weekend Iowa City Sponsor Spotlight✨With more than 22,500 employees operating in 70 countries, Pearson is the world’s learning company with a mission to help people make progress in their lives through learning. #EdTechIowa

Interested in startups and education? Here's a great opportunity coming up this summer!

In one week we'll be wrapping up #SWIC21 with our Demo Day presentations! This is where participants present, watch and celebrate all of their hard work throughout the weekend. Who's going to come up with this year's top idea? 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️#EdTechIowa 🎟: swic.rocks

Next week we'll be interviewing Luke of pvpallet at 1 Million Cups Cedar Rapids in person at The Olympic in Cedar Rapids. Get your coffee at Brewhemia then stop up at 8:30 on 7/21!

pvpallet exposes clean energy's dirty secret - and how they intend to fix it. pvpallet.com/news/clean-ene…

We have a very special #1MCDSM this Wednesday: we'll be at Principal Park at 8am for a panel discussion featuring Managing Directors from 4 Iowa startup accelerators. If you've ever had a question about this form of help for growing your company, this will be the place to ask it.

Powerful quote from a wonderful book recommended to me recently by Brad Keywell

Proud of our portfolio companies who are #PrometheusAwards finalists (and winners 🏆 ) in 2021! Rantizo OpenLoop Gross-Wen Tefhnologies, Tractor Zoom pvpallet , as well as our friends NewBoCo who are up for 🥇 Aaron Horn 🎗 and Joyce Bertling

What an incredible night & we want to thank everyone involved- the speakers, our host, Caucho for catering, The Olympic for the event space, & our event planners- Jourdan & Jill. It was a night of celebrating innovation, tech education, & entrepreneurship ⚡️. Here is to 2022!

Dead equity on your cap table is a major red flag. How to avoid this potentially company-crippling mistake. isaventures.substack.com/p/dead-equity-…

Are traditional performance evaluations a practice startups should use? Probably not. Here's why. isaventures.substack.com/p/performance-…

Friendly reminder that Iowa Startup Accelerator Launch Day is FREE at the Englert in Iowa City the evening of June 8th. It'll be a great time! eventbrite.com/e/iowa-startup… @Eventbrite

Woke up with the realization that Iowa Startup Accelerator Launch Day and EntreFEST are THIS WEEK in Iowa City and it's going to be so great to be on the pedmall again! Not too late to grab a ticket and join us: entrefest.com

Stop by the The Englert Theatre tonight for the Iowa Startup Accelerator Launch Day! Happy hour at 6 and event starts at 7.

It’s time! Iowa Startup Accelerator Launch Day kicks off @entreFEST right now! @newboco ISA Ventures instagr.am/p/CekEtr1uwly/

We're excited to work with CareSource on this: The CareSource Iowa Opportunity Investment Fund is a $2M fund focused on Iowa-based companies w/ diverse founders and/or those who seek to improve healthcare outcomes or social impact. Read more: bit.ly/3SpWlL0

Super proud of my friends at NewBoCo - tonight celebrating the last year of amazing successes and critical impact on the state of Iowa’s economy.

We are excited to announce our strategic partnership with Genus PIC! To learn more about this partnership please click the link below. Pig Improvement Company (PIC) Matthew Rooda Barrett #innovation #pigflow #porkproduction #neverstopimproving pic.com/2022/11/29/pic…

Groov allows residential land developers, home builders, and buyers to find lots available in their area and manage lot data efficiently. It utilizes AI to map and organize lot data, and partners to add their lots to the platform in real time. mug.news/land-developer…