REACT ā RECOVERY ā RESILIENCESBDC IOWA CLIENTS SHARE THEIR COVID-19 JOURNEYHair Designers of Corning, Backgrounds CoffeeSherry Keefe, Owner How did you come up with the idea for your business?I came up with the idea for Backgrounds due to the fact I love coffee and there was no place in Corning to get a true coffeehouse […]
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REACT ā RECOVERY ā RESILIENCESBDC IOWA CLIENTS SHARE THEIR COVID-19 JOURNEYFBB BiomedHoward Urnovitz, Co-Founder How did you come up with the idea for FBB Biomed?FBB Biomed is a start-up international biomedical technology firm that is taking on the challenge of defeating COVID-19 and future pandemics. With headquarters and manufacturing in Coralville, Iowa and a business
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REACT ā RECOVERY ā RESILIENCESBDC IOWA CLIENTS SHARE THEIR COVID-19 JOURNEYWayneās Ski and CycleMatt Curtis, Owner How did you come up with the idea for your business?I worked at Wayne’s Ski and Cycle, a shop that specializes in bikes and cycling gear, skis and snow sport apparel, and fitness equipment, in college as a part-time
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REACT ā RECOVERY ā RESILIENCESBDC IOWA CLIENTS SHARE THEIR COVID- 19 JOURNEYANYTIME TEES How did you come up with the idea for Anytime Tees?I started the business 10 years ago, as a way to be involved in high school athletics and the Council Bluffs community. At the time I was a high school basketball and
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REACT ā RECOVERY ā RESILIENCESBDC IOWA CLIENTS SHARE THEIR COVID-19 JOURNEYSHOP WHERE I LIVECherie Edilson, Founder & Owner How did you come up with the idea for Shop Where I Live?In early 2017 my husband and I were both small business owners. I created handmade products and sold them online through my website and Amazon,
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ReEnvision Ag is an agricultural start-up located in Nora Springs, Iowa, founded by Jayson Ryner – farmer, musician, entrepreneur and creative problem solver. ReEnvision Ag is developing disruptive technology that will change the row-crop farming industry. Jayson came up with the idea for the system ā now called REAP (ReEnvision Ag Planting) System to allow
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About two years ago, engineer and avid angler Greg Ferris came up with the idea for a personal watercraft that would be an alternative to fishing kayaks. Knowing that if he were to move forward with the idea as the basis of a business venture ā whatever the business model might be ā he was
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In early 2011, Mona Everson reached out to the North Central Iowa Small Business Development Center for assistance with starting an in-home health care business after she saw first-hand the gap in services being provided in her community and was referred to the center by her local Chamber. Mona worked closely with Lisa Shimkat, Regional
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Nathan Eick is a farm boy with a love of photography. As he got older and started to experiment with commercially available drones, he planned to provide a commercial aerial photography service to map crops. In November of 2017, Eick formally started the business. He soon discovered that the aircraft available to him were not
In 1993, Minnehan Metal Works, LLC began as a welding and farm repair shop in a garage in Churdan. Anthony and Tami Minnehan have grown their company over the years, and earned a reputation as a company that could design and build products that solved problems in the agriculture and commercial industries. Their projects have
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