Spotlight on Entrepreneurship: Creating a collaborative work space
In honor of Global Entrepreneurship Week, Startup Sioux City featured a week of stories on local entrepreneurs. The response was overwhelming, and therefore, we’re going to continue to run the responses we received through this week. Find all the stories here. BUSINESS OWNER: Diane Daby BUSINESS NAME: Springboard Coworking MAIN PRODUCTS/SERVICES: Collaborative Workspace and private meeting spaces YEAR STARTED: 2013
Spotlight on Entrepreneurship: A BBQ hobby goes full time
This is the fourth in a week of profiles of local entrepreneurs who have started businesses in Siouxland. Some are small – with only one or two employees – while others have grown through the years to many employees. But all of them have started businesses here and this week share some feedback on what it means to start and
Spotlight on Entrepreneurship: Vanessa Wodtke and Windy Acres
Today we begin a week of profiles of local entrepreneurs who have started businesses in Siouxland. Some are small – with only one or two employees – while others have grown through the years to many employees. But all of them have started businesses here and this week will share some feedback on what it means to start and grow
Iowa entrepreneur, author to keynote Business for Breakfast
Adam Carroll, a passionate “financial literacy junkie”, will share insight on entrepreneurship, networking and building a strong financial plan for you and your business at a Dec. 5 Business for Breakfast. Carroll will discuss how to succeed faster by leveraging money, time, relationships and service with his presentation “Becoming a Super Connector: Secrets of the Truly Successful”. The event is
5 Questions with Tom Eakin of startup BoomLife
Jefferson resident Tom Eakin recently started the company BoomLife, and on Oct. 1 rolled the beta launch of his GPS Theory app. Here are 5 questions for Eakin. What is Boomlife, and why did you create it? BoomLife provides personal, professional and organizational success engineering services. We created BoomLife with a simple but audacious mission: To help people achieve Life-Long
Coworking space to open in downtown Sioux City
From a Press Release issued by Diane Daby, owner of Springboard Coworking. We’re happy to announce a new addition to the downtown Sioux City business landscape – Springboard Coworking – a collaborative office space that combines the best of café culture with a productive, functional, and affordable work environment. Springboard Coworking is owned by Diane Daby, and is set to
Local startup featured in Women 2.0
Beth Trejo (above), who started her social media company Chatterkick in the spring of 2012, was featured this week in the website Women 2.0. talking about starting a company in Sioux City. While the blog calls our fine river town a “business backwater,” Trejo said some nice things about the startup culture in Iowa and what struggles she faced in starting
Morningside student talks startups, entrepreneurship and Sioux City
Sean Richardson (above, right), a student at Morningside College and co-creator of the SpotVendr app, recently attended a Startup Weekend event in Ames, IA. We asked him to tell us a little bit about his experience, his product, and his ideas about entrepreneurship. 1.) What happens during a Startup Weekend event? How does it work? Myself, Blake Anderson (Morningside College)
Lottery CEO Rich to speak at Business for Breakfast
In celebration of National Travel and Tourism week, the Sioux City Orpheum Theatre will host Terry Rich, CEO of the Iowa Lottery, at the semi-annual Business for Breakfast event, which will be held May 7, at 7:30 a.m. The Business for Breakfast event, which is held twice each year, is aimed at promoting business and economic growth in Siouxland. When
Former Meredith Magazine chief Autry to speak at Morningside
James Autry – author, poet, and former Fortune 500 executive – will present a lecture based on his book, “The Servant Leader: How to Build a Creative Team, Develop Great Morale, and Improve Bottom Line Performance,” at Morningside College on Wednesday, April 24. Autry grew up in Memphis, Tenn., and Northen Mississippi. He attended the University of Mississippi, where he
