May 17, 2013

The ultimate prize of company bragging rights seems to take over the Golden Circle Games each year.  Now entering it’s 29th edition, the games (GCG) are set to be at Water Works Park next month with their new theme of forming your “Dream Team”. As a past board member of the Young Professionals Connection (YPC), I knew it was quite a...

Sep 14, 2012

This week was packed with networking opportunities for getting out to catch up with friends in productively loud environments.  Here’s a recap of what went on as I’m sure we’ll see more of each event: Iowa Startup Fair & Startup Job Crawl: As we’ve mentioned many times before, the number of startup companies  and tech innovations...

Jun 18, 2012

When my husband Tom and I were contemplating the decision to move to Des Moines (from San Francisco), it seemed like Des Moines was popping up on every “top ten” list imaginable. Of course, the Iowans we knew forwarded these lists to us. I can’t remember each list, but I know among them Des Moines was listed in “Best City for Business,” “Best Places...

Jun 15, 2012

There’s certain elements that can transform a 2-day concert into a 2-day festival and one of them has consistently been the Do More Village at 80-35.  This will be the 5th year that Young Professionals Connection will be hosting the village along Locust street as a showcase of differing organizations and Non-profits throughout Central Iowa.  The message...

Jan 27, 2012

The Young Professionals Connection showed last Friday that they could not be off to a better start in the new year.  400+ flooded into People’s after making the decision to begin their weekend at YPC’s Annual Kick-off Party.  I don’t think anyone regretted that decision, this was once again the best “social hour” in town. Mike...