Local startup featured in Women 2.0
Photo Credit: 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 here, namely that she found out she was pregnant days after leaving her job with the Siouxland Chamber to start her own company.
Said Trejo on startups in the Midwest: “People don’t take as many financial risks here. You see people with amazing ideas but they just don’t quit their jobs and start it,” she said. “They’d rather work in the job, even if they didn’t like it, to make sure they were more financially secure. If you’re in that culture in other communities, it’s not a big deal to start a company and fail, start another company and fail. But around here, that’s a huge thing, so social status and culture make a difference.”