The Launch Cedar Valley Podcast

As Iowa starts to make its initial foray into the cannabis industry, which is still in its infancy in the US, getting into the industry is a wild west of patchwork policies and constantly shifting opportunities.

Laura Hand and Alissa Gardner have h... more

With a penchant for music (a lean toward hip hop) and impressively deep knowledge of influencer marketing tactics, Pranav jumped straight into the music industry.

Graduating from Cedar Falls High School earlier this year, Pranav founded Pranav Mana... more

With almost 12 years of experience as President of The Veridian Group managing investment strategy for the $5.2B institutions, including investments in major fintech companies like Dwolla, Alkami Technology, and Moov Financial, Nick is a veteran in t... more

ReShonda and Nia have both lived the reality of launching their own businesses as black female business founders in Waterloo.  Learning from her father helping run his manufacturing company, ReShonda founded Popcorn Heaven and eventually franchised t... more

Cedar Falls isn’t new to the broadband game. Rob, an avid mountain biker and both CTO and Director of Communications Services at Cedar Falls Utilities, has been captaining the nationally leading broadband infrastructure in Cedar Falls for over seven ... more

Ehrich and Stephen are two of the leading data science and machine learning entrepreneurs in the Cedar Valley, heading up the research and product development at Pack Moose. With several new predictive analytics real estate products about to launch, ... more

Host Danny Laudick gives a quick introduction to the LaunchCV podcast and the goal to kickstart the entrepreneur and tech conversations across the Cedar Valley