It’s best to lead by not making it about you. That’s probably good advice for life but its certainly good advice for getting involved in a startup community. As I wrote on Monday, people will help you out if you raise your hand and ask for help. But, you’ll be more successful is you help them out first.

Wednesday was our 30th episode of the Welch Avenue Show. That episode marks the completion of the initial run of the show as funded by 62 members, friends and supporters of the Iowa Startup Community who participated in our kickstarter campaign.

Now we're changing things up!

Meet Ethan Davidson, COO of Rüster Sports. Connect with this Des Moines resident at Green Grounds Cafe in Valley Junction each Wednesday at 9 a.m. during 1 Million Cups.

9:00-10:00 a.m. each Wednesday is my favorite hour of the week. Formally, it’s known as 1 Million Cups, a program designed by our friends at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City and operated independently (and in a few differing formats) by volunteers in 30 cities around the country. Informally, I think of it as fellowship time for the startup community.

Last week, Will Lenzen, Jr, asked this question in the Startup Iowa Facebook group: "Hey gang, I'm trying to decide on where to bank with for my new business Cycle Studios. What bank do you recommend and why?"

Josh Davis, a Computer Science major at Iowa State University, recently launched twofactorauth.org "a very simple website that has a list of all the most common categories of websites like social media, finance, email, etc" and whether or not they support two factor authentication