I’ve been watching the issue numbers grow each week as I put together the new Welch Avenue Weekly so I knew that I was getting close to the one year anniversary of this company. Last week I looked it up and it turns out that today is the official anniversary of Welch Avenue (yeah!).

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.