Josh Davis, a Computer Science major at Iowa State University, recently launched twofactorauth.org "a very simple website that has a list of all the most common categories of websites like social media, finance, email, etc" and whether or not they support two factor authentication

Meet Andrew Kirpalani, product manager for Bunchball. Connect with this Des Moines resident on Twitter or at StartupCity, Crossfit 8035 or on Saturday and Sunday morning at Jethro's by Drake where he'll be having brisket and eggs.

Dice.com (Urbandale), the nearly 25 year old tech job board powerhouse, held it’s first ever hackathon last weekend at the DMACC/FFA Enrichment Center in Ankeny. #DiceMobileHackathon was aimed at getting applications built that test their new API but that was only a factor in one of the five prize categories. Overall they gave out $10,000 in cash on Sunday afternoon.

This week I was quoted in a national Bloomberg story about the health insurance co-ops created by the Affordable Care Act. Regardless of your thoughts (or my thoughts) on healthcare reform, I think you can appreciate the reasoning for my family deciding to give business to CoOportunity Health.

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

Last night I had the fun opportunity to help judge the Iowa State Innovation Pitch Competition for the third time. The contest is put on ISU Pappajohn Center and their Entrepreneurship and Learning Community program which is housed at the Delta Upsilon Fraternity house. The students with winning pitches are awarded cash prizes for their efforts courtesy of local sponsors.