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Reading Time: 4 minutesThe weather around here tends to balance itself out over the course of a few years. This year, winter just continues to hang on. I should have expected this, since spring started in mid-February last year. We got about eight inches of wet, slushy snow the weekend before Easter. The snowflakes flew again this past … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 7 minutesHave you ever had one of those illnesses that just keeps hanging on? The kind of head cold that makes your skull feel like it weighs 50 pounds? Mucus only stopped with a meth-precursor decongestant, where you have to sign your name and promise not to become Walter White? This was my life for more … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 7 minutesThe weather here in eastern Iowa can be pretty tricky this time of year. No two winters are the same around here. Last year, I didn’t use the snowblower at all, because every heavy snow system bypassed us either to the north, through Cedar Rapids, or to the south, through Mount Pleasant. Here in Oasis, … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 9 minutes2017 was an amazing year in my journey through the entrepreneurial ecosystem. There were ups and downs, a lot of great travels, and hundreds of connections made throughout the state and the region. The past three years have created a great foundation for what I’m planning in 2018, and I want to share some of … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 9 minutesWant to compare where I am now versus where I was one year ago? Check out 2016’s Year in Review. What better time than the end of the year to take a step back and look at the progress made over the past 12 months? This is the third “year in review” post I’ve done, … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 7 minutesWell, I meant to write a blog post before December 1, but things haven’t slowed down the way I planned over the last few weeks. It has been nice not traveling as much as I have the last few months, but I didn’t anticipate the waves of head colds and other respiratory viruses that have … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 9 minutesI left off in my last post arriving back in Mount Pleasant around 2 pm on Friday, just a few hours before the start of Startup Weekend Fairfield. My truck had been sitting there at the Amtrak station for a week, and it was toasty inside when I opened the back window to put away … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 13 minutes(TL;DR: The trip to Denver was well worth it… time well spent and many lessons learned.) What an amazing trip to Denver! If you’ve been following my Twitter feed, you probably had a vague idea of what I was up to, but I want to spend this blog post delving further into what I learned … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is it… the big trip west to Denver Startup Week! I’ve been looking forward to this trip for quite a while – I know I’ve talked about it enough. I make the trip to Denver each year to visit friends and to connect with the startup community, and to enjoy a few beverages not … [Read more…]

Reading Time: 5 minutesThere was a bit of a chill in the air this morning when I was driving my older daughter to Kindergarten – “big kid school.” She started back to school last week. I knew the day would eventually get here when she’d be off to elementary school, and I could breathe a sigh of relief … [Read more…]