Matt Patane, technology and innovation reporter for the Des Moines Register and Geoff Wood, community builder at Gravitate, sit down for an indepth discussion of the companies, events and ideas making news in the Iowa innovation community.

Topics discussed on this episode: Startup Weekend, Young Entrepreneur's Convention, ClinicNote, recent IEDA funding, Register's People to Watch Series

Feedback, thoughts or suggestions? Hit us up on Twitter or email the show at mvp@gravitatedsm.com

Matt talks with Geoff about covering the technology scene for Iowa's largest media outlet.

Interviews with Chuck Hoffman, Matt Patane, Jake Kerber, Josh Krakauer, Aristotle Loumis, Garrett Carty and Matthew Smith live from the Gravitate Grand Opening Celebration.

Next up in our "Covering Iowa Startups" series is Marco Santana of the Des Moines Register

For the last 43 weeks I’ve consistently scanned all the press there is to scan about the Iowa startup community to put together the Welch Avenue Weekly (a super cool news digest of the top three news items each week). That means looking at the big community newspapers (and the small), the local blogs and the national tech press as well as trolling a few lists of startup founders to see who is writing about their companies. What I’ve found through that process is that there are five people who consistently write about the startup community. There are many others who will occasionally write about it — for instance when a community hosts an event like a Startup Weekend that business reporter for the local paper will often cover that event.