Sweet Desires Bakery, Corning Pom Plathong owns Sweet Desires Bakery in Corning, Iowa. After working at a bakery in Pella for a decade, then transitioning to another job opportunity of over-the-road truck driving. This new job opportunity opened Pomās eyes to the business side a bit more and gave him a taste of it. After […]
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Fiddle Dee Dee, Keota When Keota native Lori Hammes grew tired of hauling, loading, and storing the items she took to shows, she sought a solution to continue selling her handmade items without the stress of transporting them between shows. Lori first started Fiddle Dee Dee as a side operation out of a house in
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Frein Audio & Technology, Mason City Lucas Frein is a native of North Iowa but he didnāt always think he wanted to build his life and career in his hometown. His journey to founding Frein Audio & Technology in Mason City was a winding road of discovering how to turn apassion into a successful career.
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Sigourney Upholstery, Sigourney Sigourney Upholstery was opened after the owner, Donna Grossman, discovered how amazing antiques are. She found herself able to find furniture pieces sold for cheap simply because of bad upholstery. So in 2018, Donna found herself doing this as a hobby, which ended up turning into people asking her to complete projects
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Matrix Construction, Des Moines Nick Gorham and Jose Sanchez opened Matrix Construction in July of 2019. The company does residential and commercial construction, including general contracting, remodeling, additions, and interior buildouts. Nick and Jose attribute the success of their business to their team. They have a motivated team that is willing to put in hard
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Midwest Media Guy, Cedar Falls Jared Cunningham started his business, Midwest Media Guy, on May 6th of, 2020. As a recent digital media graduate, Cunningham had worked with another production company but was laid off during Covid. As he tried to determine how to proceed, he explored the idea of starting his own business. During
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Black Talon, Solon Ryan Anthony started his business Black Talon LLC in the summer of 2021. The goal for Ryan and his business is to control pest birds using live raptors. Livestock, hospitals, and silos can all be badly damaged by having pest birds around. Black Talon uses raptors as an efficient way to scare
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āThe help that we got from those at the ISU SBDC office was invaluable. We were able to fine-tune our business plan and were given the confidence that we had something we could turn into a business,ā says Michael
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Project C Dance Company, Creston Cassity Conley has been dancing since a very young age.Ā She began dancing when she was just two or three years old and did so through a dance studio in Creston.Ā Cassity eventually became a teacher and instructor at the studio.Ā When the previous studio owner was getting ready to
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Classroom Clinic, Carroll Sue Gehling, a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner from Carroll, was frustrated by the childrenās mental health crisis facing rural Iowa. Having lived in a rural community her entire life, she knew first-hand the struggles families faced trying to access care for their child.Ā And as one of only a handful of childrenās mental
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