Archive for February 2016
Partnership opens D.C. trip registration
The Greater Des Moines Partnership has opened registration for its May 11-13 lobbying trip to Washington, D.C. Typically, about 200 people make the trip and network between meetings with Iowa’s congressional delegation and staff members. The full trip …
Read MoreFunnelwise now has raised $10.5 million
Funnelwise has completed a $7 million round of Series A funding, raising its total to $10.5 million. The software company, with offices in Des Moines and Chicago, is developing a revenue predictability solution. The software …
Read MoreCoopera to offer expanded Hispanic outreach to credit unions
Coopera has expanded a credit union outreach program to Iowa that will target the state’s 174,000 Hispanic consumers. The program, Juntos Avanzamos (Together We Advance), has been offered successfully in three states for the past …
Read MoreEvent Feb. 8 : ISU holds seminars for women
Iowa State University will hold a series of seminars for women interested in marketing grain. The sessions will be Feb. 8, 15, 22, and 29 at Marshalltown Community College. Each session runs 6 to 9:30 …
Read MorePlanned layoffs up 42 percent from year ago; unemployment rate drops to 4.9 percent
The Elbert Files: Iowa’s low-wage burden
An economic conundrum that has gone unresolved for decades is Iowa’s reputation for paying low wages.
Low pay is responsible for a large part of the so-called brain drain that has resulted in so many …
Read MoreMcLellan: LinkedIn strategies
One of the most underutilized social networks, from a business and marketing perspective, is LinkedIn. Despite boasting over 396 million users, the truth is that most of the users have no idea what to do …
Read MoreA Closer Look: Jill Zwagerman
Maybe Jill Zwagerman just likes to hear herself talk. The civil rights attorney says that is the case with a lot of trial lawyers. Still, you can argue that jurors apparently enjoy the experience too. …
Read MoreNewsmaker Q&A
Let’s just say Mary Skopec is used to paddling upstream, at least on the job. She is one of those public servants who are doing crucial work on an important and controversial topic — in …
Read MoreAct 3
The new guy in charge of the Des Moines Social Club is not, on paper, the most obvious choice to run one of the hippest venues in town for local artists and creators.
Pete De …
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