June 2021

Gina Blean and Kelly Heysinger

Unified Therapy Services, Inc., Dubuque The Iowa Small Business Development Center at Northeast Iowa Community College helped Kelly Heysinger and Gina Blean extensively over several years to start and grow their pediatric outpatient therapy business into the successful company it is today. Unified Therapy Services was an unrealized dream when Kelly Heysinger and Gina Blean

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Emily Starr

StarrMatica Learning Systems, Inc., Clinton Emily Starrā€™s road to entrepreneurship began with a simple request from her school principal, ā€œTell me how you use technology in your classroom.ā€ After thinking about it, Emily realized she wasnā€™t using technology, and decided to do something about it. Emily was a fourth grade teacher at Ekstrand Elementary School

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Mike Sexton

Real Time Ag, LLC, Rockwell City Nitrogen and phosphorous run-off from farm fields is a growing problem across the country. In 2010, the EPA proposed water quality standards that a Florida study concluded would cost that stateā€™s agricultural community two billion dollars and put 14,000 agricultural workers out of work. The EPAā€™s proposed regulations in

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Deb Davis

Sisterā€™s Home Style EntrĆ©es, Humboldt Deb Davis is extremely proud of Sisterā€™s Home Style EntrĆ©es. Her company makes frozen meals to go and is located in downtown Humboldt. Deb offers family packages, but the majority of the companyā€™s sales are its meals-for-one. Sisterā€™s Home Style EntrĆ©es prepares the meals from scratch, packages those meals and then

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Sarah Gall

The Runnerā€™s Flat, Cedar Falls Sarah Gall is a passionate runner. Graduating from the University of Colorado on a cross-country scholarship, Sarah was invited to qualify for the U.S. Olympic Team on two occasions. Taking what she learned in college and combining it with her passion (running), Sarah ventured out to see if the Waterloo/Cedar

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Shelly Zimmerman

SMC Ins Inc., Dumont Shelly Zimmerman had a great opportunity as a long-term employee of Harrison Thornburgh Insurance Inc. to buy the existing business from her retiring employer. From a small town storefront in Dumont, the agency had built up a strong book of business in crop insurance, property, casualty and health, among other lines. As

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