A recent Fortune.com video includes Des Moines on a list of "5 cities with up-and-coming downtowns" and cites the startup community as one reasons.

"There's a growing hub of startups, venture capitalists and internet incubators," says Fortune Assistant Managing Editor Leigh Gallagher while the video shows an image of a huge open office with several large Mac monitors and then another with a man working at an open table with couches, a wingback chair and some British red telephone boxes behind him.

Today's Welch Avenue Weekly is the 52nd consecutive edition of that publication which means that its stat time (we did the whole 'birthday time' thing last week on the anniversary of the company)!

Here are some quick highlights on who has been covering the Iowa startup community in the last year.

Hatchlings looking for folks with game development, digital marketing and social media skills.