Several months ago, Steve asked me about my decision to shelve KoalaPay, my mobile wallet and rewards app that leveraged Dwolla as a merchant-friendly payment solution. Years prior to KoalaPay I had been in retail with a few of my other companies, Naomi’s Kitchen (which is celebrating a decade this June) and Isaac’s Creamery (which I successfully exited last year). My best summation for why I failed is—wait for it—that KoalaPay had the wrong product/market fit. The writing on the wall was clear to me (and my personal pocketbook); it was time to move on.

A guest post by Troy Miller

Bunchball, like many companies large and small, believes that talented people and rockstar workers are not geographically exclusive. The entire company supports this idea and knows that to find the best talent possible, we had to focus on areas outside of the Valley.

A guest post by Kasey McCurdy, Director of Engineering at Bunchball

I’m convinced that hackathons like these are the future of computer science (and entrepreneurship) education. I’m also convinced that they are going to give rise to the next generation of innovators and disruptive startups.

A guest post by Brad Dwyer, founder of Hatchlings.

In technology we may call this a circular reference or perhaps an infinite loop, but the chicken and the egg is the proverbial causality dilemma. In Iowa (and likely in other similar states) we face our own causality dilemma in the startup community. Which comes first, startups or investors?

A guest post by John Jackovin, founder of Bawte.