The round up of tech jobs in this state on our radar this week. Go get hired!

Meet Max Farrell, business development at Dwolla. Find him getting coffee at Timbuktuu on the skywalk in Des Moines or grabbing drinks at The Lift downtown and Alpine Tap on Ingersoll.

On Friday I had the chance to participate in the OTA Sessions, a one day conference in Sioux Falls that was on par with any entrepreneurial/innovation/creative class-type event that I’ve ever attended. I knew the ticket price and the 4+ hour drive each way would be worth it based on four speakers alone.

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.

Last week, I suggested leveraging a StickShift-enabled kiosk to Amanda Styron West for EntreFEST in May. We discussed the idea a bit and settled on a timeline of "Entrepreneurship in Iowa". Something that would be able to catalog not just what is going on today but what went on before us. Think of it as a genealogy project for commerce.

A guest post by Jon Thompson

The round up of tech jobs in this state on our radar this week. Go get hired!