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Why is STEM important? (a layman's view)
A few weeks ago I was invited to speak at the Indianola STEM Symposium and Appreciate Night about why STEM is important (particularly to the audience of mostly high school kids). Hmm — why is STEM important? Why is it important to high school kids? I *accept* that STEM is important — we hear that all the time — but its hard to delineate exactly why its STEM is important.
Episode 69 - Max Farrell of Create Reason
Max talks with Geoff about what its like to bring the startup mentality to established businesses, they compare the Iowa and Arkansas startup communities and then just a bit about Grinnell College Pioneer basketball program.
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Episode 68 - Levi Rosol of We Write Code
Geoff talks with Levi about their shared startup community experience (going all the way back to the first Startup Weekend Des Moines in 2009), what you learn form shutting down a startup and how he's building his next company We Write Code.