The Insider Notebook

Can you buy gold? Sure, all you want. $1,200 or so per ounce.

Should you buy any precious metal and expect to make money from it as an investment? Maybe. Or maybe not. Currently, there’s …

During a fireside chat at Oct. 10’s 1 Million Cups, Dwolla founder and CEO Ben Milne touched on the resources founders have while fundraising.

“We really built [the company] two times,” Milne said. “I think …

Vermeer Corp.’s rapid recovery from a direct hit by an EF-3 tornado in mid-July was due in large part to “tremendous agility and adrenaline” from all of its employees, Vermeer Chair Mary Andringa told participants …

There was one role that needed to be filled at the Business Record’s “90 Ideas in 90 Minutes” event — keeping the speakers on time.

My qualifications: being an editor who must meet multiple daily …

The Business Record’s “90 Ideas in 90 Minutes” session Oct. 11 in West Des Moines gave a diverse set of panelists a chance to make us all think. To a person, they offered serious, thought-provoking …

Just about anyone who does regular business with the Greater Des Moines Partnership knows Andrea Woodard. 

A proud graduate of the University of Iowa, Woodard is one of the key logistical forces behind such high-profile …