IOWA

On a sunny Thursday afternoon, just past 5 p.m., you’d expect most people to be headed home from work. But at the Dostal House, a retail and coworking space for women on Third Avenue Southeast in Cedar Rapids’ NewBo neighborhood, things are just getting started. Cedar Rapids Gazette 

Cyndi Chizek, a Functional Medicine Coaching Academy certified health coach, opened her practice, Chizek Health Coaching, in Clear Lake. The office will offer guidance on diet and lifestyle changes and “takes an individualized approach to holistic wellness.” Mason City Globe Gazette

Since Tanya Matthews changed her career focus from finance to fashion, opening a women’s clothing boutique in NewBo City Market, she’s been picking up things about entrepreneurship that she never learned in business school. Cedar Rapids Gazette 

Nina Brundell has always worked in the clothing industry, but for the past eight years she’s focused on a more practical side of the business, specializing in career wear and uniforms.Cedar Rapids Gazette 

Her downtown coffee shop is just one example of Brooke Fitzgerald’s investment in the Cedar Rapids community. Cedar Rapids Gazette 

NATIONAL

More than 20 percent of female founders who responded to a survey from technology accelerator Y Combinator said investors have targeted them with some type of inappropriate sexual behavior, according to results from Y Combinator shared this week. BuzzFeed News