Abby Rowling
The Human Moment: Coworking for your health

When it comes to leading a healthy and fulfilling life, it's not just about hitting the gym and eating your veggies. Studies have shown that community and connection play a vital role in our overall well-being, both mentally and physically.

Joining a coworking community can do wonders for your mental well-being by providing a space that fosters and strengthens social connections. It's not just about the physical amenities like a desk, coffee, and Wi-Fi, but rather the built-in network of individuals who can become your friends, support system, or even your future partner (we've seen it happen!).

The Human Moment: Coworking for your health

Guest Post

What do you do for a living?

For me, this question used to be pretty easy to answer. Up until 18 months ago, my answer was that I worked for a large financial institution trying to stop bad guys (and gals) from laundering drug money and doing my best to prevent the financing of terrorism. This always prompts comments from people like, “Wow, that’s really cool” or “I never knew people did that type of thing.” After more than a decade of honing my skills in the anti-money laundering profession, I can tell you with certainty the work I do every day is actually pretty darn cool. Now that I’ve added “entrepreneur” to my title this question takes a lot longer to answer.

A guest post by Zachary Kreger

The clusterFlunk story

Midway through my sophomore year at Truman State University I got a call from Joe Dallago, a good friend of mine since high school. Joe was studying at the University of Iowa and he was just pissed; complaining that he had bombed a test because of one question he couldn’t get on his study guide. He emailed his professor, his TA and was sitting in the middle of the library but he couldn’t find the answer. There were 400 students in that class and he had no way to talk to any of them. One of his classmates could have probably answered his question in a couple of minutes and he would have been fine.

A guest post by AJ Nelson

A time to plant, a time to uproot

Several months ago, Steve asked me about my decision to shelve KoalaPay, my mobile wallet and rewards app that leveraged Dwolla as a merchant-friendly payment solution. Years prior to KoalaPay I had been in retail with a few of my other companies, Naomi’s Kitchen (which is celebrating a decade this June) and Isaac’s Creamery (which I successfully exited last year). My best summation for why I failed is—wait for it—that KoalaPay had the wrong product/market fit. The writing on the wall was clear to me (and my personal pocketbook); it was time to move on.

A guest post by Troy Miller

Remote Working: growing a Des Moines-based team at our Silicon Valley startup

Bunchball, like many companies large and small, believes that talented people and rockstar workers are not geographically exclusive. The entire company supports this idea and knows that to find the best talent possible, we had to focus on areas outside of the Valley.

A guest post by Kasey McCurdy, Director of Engineering at Bunchball

Iowa's 'the Chicken or the Egg' Problem

In technology we may call this a circular reference or perhaps an infinite loop, but the chicken and the egg is the proverbial causality dilemma. In Iowa (and likely in other similar states) we face our own causality dilemma in the startup community. Which comes first, startups or investors?

A guest post by John Jackovin, founder of Bawte.